PRACTICE AREAS
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
To cater to our client’s increasing needs in areas of litigation and alternative dispute resolution such as arbitration and mediation; we have a litigation practice helmed by veteran lawyer Mr. Niru Pillai.
Our litigation team were formally members of Niru & Co. which was established in 1978 under the leadership of veteran litigation lawyer, Mr. Niru Pillai, who today heads up the litigation practice of Global Law Alliance LLC. His former firm, Niru & Co., began as a niche practice with an initial focus on shipping and marine insurance law and rapidly developed and expanded to become a boutique practice reputed for its specialised expertise in insurance and reinsurance (all classes), shipping and aviation, media (defamation), intellectual property, civil and commercial, including oil and gas.
OUR LITIGATION PRACTICE
Insurance and Reinsurance
Our litigation practice has been actively involved in various litigation matters in substantial and complex cases, both in Singapore and in Malaysia. The experience in insurance litigation work includes substantial claims under all major classes of insurance business as enlisted below:
- Bailee Liability
- Bankers Blanket Bonds
- Contractors’ All Risks
- Captive Insurance
- Director’s and Officers’ Liability
- E-Commerce Policies
- Energy
- Erection All Risks
- Errors & Omissions
- Fidelity Guarantees
- Fire and Consequential Loss
- Freight Forwarders’ Actions
- Marine Insurance: Hull & Cargo
- Media Insurance
- Medical/Clinical Negligence
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Money Policies
- Motor
- Oil & Gas
- Power Plant Insurance
- Performance Bonds
- Personal Injury
- Political Risks Insurance
- Product Liability
- Professional Indemnity
- Public Liability
- Reinsurance
- Run-offs and consolidation of insurance companies
- Workmen’s Compensation
Shipping, Admiralty and Aviation
Our litigation practice has rendered litigation and advisory services on several shipping, admiralty and aviation matters involving substantial ship collision and oil pollution cases (which includes largest claims in Malaysia), in the areas as stated below:
- Carriage of Goods by Land Protection & Indemnity Club work
- Carriage of Goods by Sea Reclamation Works
- Charterparty Sale & Purchase of Vessels
- Collisions at sea Salvage
- Dredging Works Ship Agencies
- Freight Haulage Claims Ship Finance & Mortgage
- General Average Ship Licences
- Marine Pollution Ship Registration
- Maritime Arbitration Ship Repairs, Building & Construction
- Merchant Shipping Ordinance Compliance and Enquiries
- Protection & Indemnity Club work
- Reclamation Works
- Sale & Purchase of Vessels
- Salvage
- Ship Agencies
- Ship Finance & Mortgage
- Ship Licences
- Ship Registration
- Ship Repairs, Building & Construction
The aviation matters handled by our litigation practice have also been reported in various journals and difficult issues arising under the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, etc.
Media
Media has been an important portfolio of our litigation practice area, notably in libel and slander. Our litigation practice works closely with major media organizations.
In addition to the litigation and advisory services rendered in this area of practice, our lawyers, are also active in presenting seminars on media law to various media organizations such as Malaysian Newspaper Publishers Association, Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad/NTV7, etc.
Intellectual Property
Our litigation practice provides litigation, advisory and registration services in intellectual property matters in areas such as copyrights, trademarks, patents and passing off.
The scope of litigation work inter alia involves pre-emptive and summary actions taken on urgent basis to secure interim court orders to preserve and protect clients’ intellectual proprietary rights.
Corporate and Civil Matters
Our litigation practice handles substantial corporate and civil litigation work. This encompasses wide ranging disputes such as breach of contracts involving construction, property, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, sale of goods, transportation, bailment and service contracts, partnership disputes, tort actions, medical negligence and probate.
Banking Dispute Resolution/Litigation
We handle various banking disputes and litigation wherein we act for several premier banking institutions.
Arbitration
Consistent with our extensive and wide ranging litigation portfolio, our litigation practice handle major disputes across all areas of their practice through the arbitration and mediation processes.
We represent clients at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre over oil trading contract disputes and Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration on matters pertaining to insurance, reinsurance and contractual disputes.