jurisdictions
Malaysia
Adjunct Prof. Dr. Arun Kasi
Advocate & Solicitor
Arun Kasi & Co
Advocates & Solicitors
Kuala Lumpur
England & Wales
Adjunct Prof. Dr. Arun Kasi
Barrister
4-5 Gray's Inn Square
Barrister's Chambers
London
Recent Cases (Kuala Lumpur & 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.
- Defending a shipowner in an ownership claim made in rem against the ship recently purchased for US$20 m.
- Advised a buyer on a US$6 million refund guarantee in the buyer’s purchase of a new built yacht.
- Advised an owner on a dispute over payment out following judicial sale of their vessel for US$5 m.
- Advising a client on a complex company structure for a joint venture company to sell their vessel to the JV company for US$3.6 m and the JV company obtaining a Domestic Shipping Licence.
- 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.
- Represented a shipowner in an admiralty case involving arrest of another ship in a claim for US$230,000 claim arising from unpaid demurrage.
- Advised a client on their intended arrest of a vessel owned by the charterer for freight owed by the charterer to the client on a voyage charter of the client’s vessel in the presence of an award in the client’s favour for US$215,000.
- 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 state government entity (client) in their admiralty claim against a vessel for a collision with the client’s special purpose stationary vessel in the mouth of a river connecting to the ocean.
- 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.
