Steven Thiru & Sudhar Partnership

Dispute Resolution, Arbitration And Adjudication

Position: Partner

Practice Areas: General Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Corporate & Securities Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring, Real Estate & Property, Utilities, Infrastructure & Construction.

Dawn practises in the field of civil and commercial litigation, with a focus on construction-related disputes. She has acted for and advised major developers, contractors, architects, and engineers in litigation, arbitration, and adjudication proceedings and is familiar with all major standard forms of construction and consultancy contract, including PAM, PWD, CIDB, and IEM forms. Dawn is also experienced in contract administration and the drafting and negotiation of project documentation. Quite apart from construction-related matters, Dawn has also handled company and shareholder disputes, defamation claims, contentious probate disputes, restructuring and insolvency proceedings including judicial management, abuse of dominance claims in the aviation sector, and disciplinary proceedings held before the Investigation Committee of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

English, Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese

2016 – Present :        Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. 2016 – Present :        Member of the Malaysian Bar. 2016 – 2019 :            Ordinary Council Member of The Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators 2019 – 2021 :            Honourary Treasurer of The Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators

LL.B (Hons) (The London School of Economics and Political Science) Barrister – At – Law (Gray’s Inn)

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