Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Partner, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Partner, Christopher & Lee Ong, Malaysia

Director, Rajah & Tann Myanmar Company Limited

Jainil Bhandari is qualified to practice law in Singapore and Malaysia. He is named as a Senior Accredited Specialist for Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law’s Specialist Accreditation Scheme. He is also a qualified arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Jainil has been in active litigation and arbitration practice since 1989 and has appeared in the Singapore and Malaysian courts at the highest levels, and in ad hoc as well as institutional commercial arbitrations administered under the SIAC, SCMA, AIAC, LMAA and UNCITRAL Rules.  He also has extensive experience in commodity contract arbitrations administered by various trade bodies such as GAFTA, FOSFA and PORAM.

Jainil is vastly experienced in shipping and trading disputes and has acted for shipowners, charterers, insurers, international commodity traders and oil majors in disputes relating to amongst others, bills of lading, charterparties and transportation contracts, offshore construction projects, marine insurance, shipping casualties, oil pollution and commodity contracts involving shipments of coal, iron ore and oil.

He is recognised as a Global Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Transport – Shipping 2024, and has been consistently ranked as a Leading Lawyer in shipping law by Chambers, The Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles and Best Lawyers.