Victoria Tien Fen Loi

Practice Areas

• Building, Construction & Engineering

• General & Civil Litigation

• International & Domestic Arbitration

Career

Victoria is an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya since 2008 and a dispute resolution partner of Shook Lin & Bok, Kuala Lumpur since 2016.

Victoria is ranked as a “Future Star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific from 2018 – 2023 in the practice areas of Construction, and Commercial and Transactions. She is ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific Guides 2023 and 2024 in the practice areas of “Dispute Resolution: Construction” and “Construction” respectively.

Professional Memberships

• Panel of Arbitrators, Asian International Centre for Arbitration (AIAC)

• Panel of Adjudicators, AIAC

• Panel of Mediators, AIAC

• Panel of Accredited Mediators, Malaysian International Mediation Centre (MIMC)

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

• Fellow, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb)

• Member, Society of Construction Law Malaysia (SCL)

• Member, (West) Malaysian Bar

Experience

Victoria has over 15 years of experience as a dispute resolution lawyer. Her practice focuses on arbitration, building, construction and engineering disputes and general litigation, and adjudication under the Malaysian Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA).

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Malaysia

Publications

• Co-author, Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guides, Construction Law (Malaysia), 2022

• Co-contributor, CDR – Essential Intelligence: The Belt & Road Initiative (Malaysia), 2021

• Co-contributor, Anti-Suit Injunctions – Law and Practice of Injunctions in Malaysia, Sweet & Maxwell, 2020

• Case Commentary, Construction Law Digest, 2015

Personal

Victoria’s idea of a good break is gallivanting somewhere historical that has good food and a hill or two.

Languages Spoken

• English

• Malay