Karnan is an English and Singapore qualified lawyer and arbitrator with 20 years’ experience in commodities and shipping disputes.

Karnan is a Partner with Kennedys Legal Solutions and is qualified in both Singapore and in England and Wales. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is accredited as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law. He is also a member of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration Procedure Committee.

Karnan has extensive practical experience handling a range of shipping and trade related disputes across Asia including those involving charterparties, shipbuilding contracts, commodity sale contracts and marine insurance.

He is consistently ranked as a leading shipping lawyer in legal directories, Chambers Global and Who’s Who Legal and is also recognized by Best Lawyers as one of the leading lawyer in Singapore in the areas of Arbitration & Mediation and Insurance Law.