Belden Premaraj

Practice Areas

Construction & Engineering

Energy

Infrastructure & Major Projects

Arbitration

Adjudication

Mediation

Career

Belden Premaraj is the founding partner of Belden Advocates & Solicitors, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a Barrister from the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.

He has had a specialist practice in arbitration and on-project advisory for the past 30 years with a focus in the construction and engineering, energy and infrastructure industries. He is regularly appointed as an arbitrator for complex and technical disputes both domestically and internationally. He has also acted as mediator, early neutral evaluator and expert determiner for a number of disputes.

Belden remains an active counsel, arbitrator and adjudicator in his practice area. He is on the panel of arbitrators of SIAC and AIAC and has sat on many other institutional arbitrations internationally.

Professional Memberships

Panel Arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)

Panel Arbitrator, Adjudicator & Mediator, Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC)

Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)

Fellow, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAiADR)

Fellow, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (FMIArb)

Personal

Certified by AOTS of Japan on Commercial Arbitration for Asian Countries

Languages Spoken

English, Malay

Experience

Steel erection top side works for FPSO.

Painting and insulation works for an LNG plant and EPCC for Slug Catcher.

Design and delay dispute for an EPIC for MPUs.

Hydrogen Production Unit Plant and a Diesel Heater Treater Plant.

Steam Cracker Complex Facility.

Dredging and reclamation works for a container loading jetty.

Laser docking system, chilled water pipes, runway lighting systems and PC airplane cooling system for an international airport.

Double-track railway infrastructure, track works and systems EPCC in Malaysia.

Design and construction of a highway and a cable-stay bridge.

Design and construction of coal fired power station, solar power plants and hydro-plants.

M&E works for a private hospital.

Construction of a reservoir, pumping plant and laying of pipelines.

BOT of a district cooling plant and ice storage system.

Design and construction of a sewerage treatment plant.

Road infrastructure works, including tunnelling works.

Design and construction of central railway station Kuala Lumpur.

Complex sub-sea piping installations and fixed or floating oil platforms and risers.

Awards