Surendra Ananth

Litigation

Sole Proprietor

Surendra Ananth operates as a sole proprietor. He holds an LL.B (Hons) degree from the National University of Malaysia and a Masters in Studies in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.

He was admitted to practise as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in July 2015. He was an associate with Dato’ Malik Imtiaz from 2015 to 2019. He appeared regularly as assisting counsel to Dato’ Malik Imtiaz in a wide range of complex or high value commercial, civil, constitutional and administrative disputes. He also appears as lead counsel in various public interest and civil litigation cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court. His portfolio includes both international and domestic arbitrations. Surendra is an emerging opinion leader and contributes regularly to various publications.

Surendra was a member of the Malaysian Bar Council for the term 2021/2022 and the Co-Chairperson of the Malaysian Bar Law Reform and Special Areas Committee. He previously co-chaired the Malaysian Bar Constitutional Law Committee. He is the former Co-Chairperson of the Constitutional Literacy Initiative, an initiative between the Malaysian Bar and University Malaya to increase constitutional literacy.

English, Bahasa Malaysia and Tamil

Malaysian Bar Council (Member - 2021-2022)

Malaysian Bar Law Reform And Special Areas Committee (Co-Chairperson - 2020-2022)

Malaysian Bar Constitutional Law Committee (Co-Chairperson- 2017-2020)

Constitutional Literacy Initiative (CoChairperson - 2017-2020)

Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation (Malaysian ambassador)

LLB (Hons) from the National University of Malaysia (2015)

Mst (Masters in International Human Rights Law) from the University of Oxford (2022)