Wai Loon Lam

Practice Areas

Wai Loon specialises in construction, infrastructure and energy projects and related disputes. Among others, set out below are some of the projects in which Wai Loon has advised or acted as counsel for clients:

❖ Residential and commercial building projects, including Exchange 106, Hotels and many high-rise buildings;

❖ Construction of Factory;

❖ Infrastructure and energy related projects including the Mass Transit Railway (MRT 2 & MRT 3), Light Railway Transit (LRT Line 3) Water Treatment Plant, Power Plant and On-Shore & In-Shore Water Piping Works;

❖ Airports;

❖ Transhipment Hub and Free Economic Zones;

❖ Land Reclamation;

❖ Mechanical and Electrical Works;

❖ Basement Works, Slope Protection Works and Tunnelling Works;

❖ Oil & Gas, including LNG Regasification Plant, and Off-Shore Caisson Platforms;

❖ Petrochemical Plant;

❖ Telecommunication Works;

❖ Construction of Aquarium.

In addition, Wai Loon also helps clients in drafting/reviewing their construction contracts. He also has construction management advisory experience which involve various types of construction contracts, including JKR (Public Works Department) form of contracts, IEM Contracts, PAM Conditions of Contract, Red, Silver and Yellow FIDIC Conditions of Contracts for various types of construction, infrastructure and energy related project works undertaken in Malaysia and abroad.

Career

Professional Affiliations:

(1) Member of International Statutory Adjudication Expert Committee

(2) Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - Malaysia Branch [2016-2017]

(3) Immediate Past President of the Society Construction Law, Malaysia [2017-2018]

(4) President of the Malaysian Society of Adjudicators [2019-2020]

(5) Committee Member of the AIAC CIPAA Regulations Committee [2014]

(6) Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow (CIArb, U.K.)

(7) Fellow of Malaysian Society of Adjudicators

(8) Approved Tutor & Examiner of the AIAC Adjudication Training Programme [2015-2019]

Professional Memberships

Wai Loon is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (U.K.), and is on the Asian International Arbitration Centre’s and Kigali International Arbitration Centre’s Panel of Arbitrators.

Publications

Wai Loon's recent publications include a co-authored book titled 'Lam on Construction Claims in Malaysia' [LexisNexis Malaysia], a co-authored book titled ‘Construction Adjudication In Malaysia’ [3rd Edition, Sweet & Maxwell Malaysia] published in March 2022, and a co-authored Chapter on ‘Arbitration In Malaysia’ published in the text titled ‘International Commercial Arbitration In Asia’ [3rd Edition, 2013, JurisNet LLC]. His text ‘Construction Adjudication In Malaysia’ [2nd Edition, 2018] has been referred to and mentioned in more than 50 reported judgments rendered by the Malaysian Courts on issues relating to statutory adjudications under CIPAA.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Malaysia

Languages Spoken

English, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese and Mandarin