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DR. ARUN KASI RECENT CASES IN MALAYSIA/ LONDON
- Successfully represented a creditor in multi-billion-dollar insolvency of an energy giant. Dr Arun Kasi attended to arrest of the energy giant’s ship. Case progress was hampered by moratorium obtained by the energy giant. After two years of litigation, Dr Arun Kasi overcame the moratorium, obtained judgment for the client and brought the ship to the process of judicial sale.
- Advised a borrower in a dispute arising from a US$50 m bond loan agreement.
- Representing a cargo owner (voyage charterer) in a US$28 m cargo dispute, in which the ship was arrested, following the refusal of the ship to deliver the cargo upon the cargo owner being sanctioned by US OFAC under Iranian trade sanctions scheme.
- Advised a buyer on a US$6 million refund guarantee in the buyer’s purchase of a new built yacht.
- Sitting as an original arbitrator appointed by the claimant in a charterparty dispute between the claimant (time charterers) and the owners, under LMAA 2021 terms. Total value, including counterclaim, at stake US$3 m.
- Advised an insurer on a US$1.6 million cargo claim (shortage claim) under a Marine Open Cover (and numerous Certificates of Insurance) and a Marine Policy.
- Successfully represented a major shareholder of a 1,000-acre tin ore mining company in a series of corporate disputes and issues over general meetings among the shareholders and directors worth multi-million dollars.
- Representing a shipping agent in a US$900,000 agency fees dispute with a shipping line. The agent has exercised lien over the liner’s containers in the possession of the agent. The liner has gone into liquidation in Indonesia. Claims have surfaced from others who claim to have acquired an interest in the containers prior to insolvency of the liner.
- Successfully represented a Singapore shipbroker and agent in a US$600,000 dispute involving their claim for brokerage commission and their defence to a counterclaim over various issues arising from his agency services (counterclaim is ongoing) in Taipower project (a multi-billion-dollar offshore windfarm project in Taiwan).
- Defending an insurer on a US$500,000 cargo claim (shortage claim) under a Marine Open Cover (and numerous Certificates of Insurance) and making a counterclaim for refund of shortage claims previously paid.
- Representing a shipping agent in a US$550,000 dispute involving their claim for agency fees and their defence to a counterclaim in the Taipower project.
- Successfully defended a shipowner in a US$200,000 allision case in connection with the ship colliding with a link bridge of a cruise terminal.
- Defending the ship operation in the US$200,000 allision case.
- Representing a contractor in their £165,000 claim on a construction dispute in an arbitration under CIArb Rules.
- Advised a shipowner on a US$176,000 freight difference claim under a voyage charter. Cargo was timber logs. Dispute concerned the method of measurement.
- Representing a fishing boat owner in their US$70,000 collision claim against a tugboat that had a barge in tow, which collided with the fishing boat.
- Advised an insurer on a US$40,000 cargo claim (shortage claim) under a Marine Open Cover and numerous Certificates of Insurance.
- Successfully represented a shipowner on a speed-consumption claim in LMAA arbitration, instructed by a P&I club.
DR. ARUN KASI PRACTISING JURISDICTIONS
MALAYSIA
Advocate & Solicitor
Arun Kasi & Co
Advocates & Solicitors
Kuala Lumpur
ENGLAND & WALES
Barrister
4-5 Gray's Inn Square
Barristers' Chambers
London
Dr. Arun Kasi Books
AK on Shipping, Monthly
Dr. Arun Kasi on Maritime Executive / LLOYD'S
Dr. Arun Kasi On News
24/01/2019
Bernama TV Interview of Arun Kasi ...
18/02/2019
Bernama TV Interview of Arun Kasi
24/02/2019
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16/11/2018
Bernama TV Interview of Arun Kasi
PETALING JAYA: The 1MDB group has made an application to the High Court to sell the RM1 billion luxury yacht Equanimity which is currently under Malaysian custody.
LETTER | The Equanimity is a yacht registered in Cayman Islands and owned by an offshore Cayman Islands company called Equanimity Cayman Ltd. She was managed by Wilson Yacht Management Ltd, UK.
AUGUST 22 — The old government had granted various multi-billion dollar contracts, on terms probably more favourable to the contractor than to the government of Malaysia. This includes HSR, ECRL, Exchange Tower 106, TRX and Bandar Malaysia contracts.
THE old government had granted various multi-billion dollar contracts, on terms probably more favourable to the contractor than to Malaysia. This includes the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail, East Coast Rail Link, Exchange Tower 106, Tun Razak Exchange, and Bandar Malaysia contracts.