Mr Lambert Rasa-Ratnam > Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile

Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill
LEVEL 6, MENARA 1 DUTAMAS, SOLARIS DUTAMAS
NO. 1, JALAN DUTAMAS 1
50480 KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia
Lambert Rasa-Ratnam photo

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Senior Partner (Administrative law, Arbitration, Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Securities Litigation, Tort, International Trade)

Career

Lambert co-heads the firm’s highly-ranked Dispute Resolution practice

Ranked Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023 in Band 2 for Dispute Resolution practice area, Lambert acts for prominent clients on a range of banking, land and company cases.

A member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Lambert also sits as arbitrator and is on the panel of arbitrators of AIAC.

He was recently recognised in the “Hall of Fame” and “Leading Individual” categories in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 rankings for Dispute Resolution. He was also one of the partners named “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2023 in the Commercial and Transactions category. He is also one of three senior partners ranked as an “Elite Practitioner” in Asialaw 2023/2024. Lambert has also been recently recognised in The A-List – Malaysia’s Top 100 Lawyers 2022 by the Asia Business Law Journal.

Languages

English, Malay

Education

BA (Hons) (Social Sciences), University of Hertfordshire
Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn)
Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya

Lawyer Rankings

Malaysia > Dispute resolution

The ‘top-notch team’ at Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill handles a large volume of complex cases, covering company law, contractual issues and shareholder disputes. On the banking and insolvency front, the practice specialises in liability, liquidation and defending banks in connection with forgery and fraud. Lambert Rasa-Ratnam, who has demonstrable experience in administrative law disputes, jointly leads the practice alongside arbitration expert Nitin Nadkarni and banking specialist Kumar Kanagasingam. Other key members of the group include SM Shanmugam, who is praised as ‘commercially and industrially knowledgeable’, and Darshendev Singh.