Shannon Rajan

Shannon holds a LL.B (Hons) from the University of London and LLM in International and Comparative Law from National University of Singapore. He was called to the Malaysian Bar in September 2007. He has a diverse portfolio of specialisations including Infrastructure, Construction and Engineering, Occupational, Safety and Health, Environmental Law, Regulatory Compliance, and Aviation and Airport Management. 

He has close to 20 years of experience in the construction industry and advises clients for the entire life cycle of the project. This encompasses advisory for tender and project documentation and project advisory work on a wide range of infrastructure projects including power and utilities projects, private sector projects particularly airports, rail, and road. His contentious work arising from projects have been mainly in arbitration (both international and domestic), mediation and litigation and a large majority of cases were factually and legally complex, engaging multi-disciplinary technical issues.

He advises on all aspects of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, and he has guided leading global organisations through all phases of crisis and risk management. This includes providing strategic advice on risk management and regulatory compliance as well as providing a rapid response in the event of significant environmental disasters and health and safety incidents causing serious injury and death, all of which give rise to the potential for large fines and criminal prosecution as well as significant reputational damage. He helps corporate entities and senior individuals in high profile and criminal investigations, potential prosecutions, and preparing clients for attendance at inquests.  He has experience in helping clients with complex or high-value personal injury claims.

He has an active aviation practice focusing on a wide range of issues relating to airport operations including technical and economic regulatory compliance, large-scale complex construction projects, concession contracts and tenancies and leases for all 39 airports in Malaysia. Notably, he acted for Malaysia Airports against various airlines including AirAsia Berhad, AirAsia X Berhad, MYAirline Sdn. Bhd. and MyJet Xpress Airlines to successfully recover unpaid airports charges. 

Shannon has experience in the entire range of dispute resolution processes. He is an accredited arbitrator who sits in the panel of the AIAC, BICAM, DIAC, HKIAC, THAC and other leading international arbitration institutions and acted as a counsel under AIAC and SIAC rules and in ad-hoc arbitration. He is a highly trained and experienced mediator who sits in MIMC, SMC and SIMI and is an IMI certified Mediation Advocate. He also sits as adjudicator under the Construction Industry Payment & Adjudication Act 2012 and has successfully delivered close to 20 adjudication decisions.  

He was named as “Commended External Counsel of the Year” by In-House Community for three consecutive years (2017-2019). He was recognised in Who’s Who Legal as the Future Leader in Construction (2024) also won the Construction in Malaysia Award at the Lexology Client Choice Award (2024).