Thevan Aruljothi
Associate
Thevan Aruljothi is an associate with the firm and is part of the firm’s dispute resolution department. He specializes in complex corporate and commercial litigation, and has appeared in all tiers of the Malaysian Courts.
Thevan read law at the University of London and thereafter obtained his Certificate in Legal Practice. He then commenced his pupillage at the firm under the tutelage of Daniel Albert and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2023.
With a principal focus on complex corporate and commercial disputes, Thevan has experience in advising and representing corporate entities on both external and internal disputes. He is also regularly consulted by local and foreign-based corporate entities on corporate crisis management and litigation risk management.
Thevan also dabbles in other areas of the law, which include but is not limited to banking litigation, personal & corporate insolvency, disciplinary proceedings, contentious land disputes and administrative law matters.
Notable Experiences: –
- Acted for a subsidiary of a large financial group in proceedings concerning the recovery of significant debts from the estate of a deceased bankrupt (“Deceased”). The Deceased was the son of a well-known corporate personality. He was adjudicated a bankrupt owing hundreds of millions to creditors (See: TA Securities Holdings Bhd & Anor v Ketua Pengarah Insolvensi & Ors [2020] 10 MLJ 370).
- Acted for international clients named as Defendants in a litigation concerning a cross jurisdictional claim for recovery of substantial sums of monies premised on inter alia the tort of conversion, fraud, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duties.
- Acted for one of Malaysia’s largest medical laboratories in a joint venture partnership dispute that concerned allegations of fraud, misappropriation of monies, assets confidential information, business and clients. We successfully sought and obtained injunctive relief in the form of an Anton Piller Order for the disclosure and preservation of evidence, an injunction order to essentially stop unlawful usage of confidential information and infringement of intellectual property rights as well as a Mareva Order to freeze the assets of the partner and the alleged vehicles of fraud used in view of the risk of dissipation of assets.
- Acted for a well-known developer in a financing dispute involving a government linked financial institution. The dispute involved claims for negligence, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, economic duress, illegality and unconscionability against the financial institution vis a vis the provision of an Islamic financing facility for a construction and development project.
