Bhieman Anandakumar

About me

I specialise in handling complex cross-border disputes. I focus particularly on disputes which relate to international trade and commodities along with trade financing and commercial fraud.

I represent a wide range of clients including commodity trading houses, listed companies, financial institutions, charterers, shipowners, bunker traders and insurers.

Clients often tell me I’m easy going by nature and pleasant to work with. I treat each client’s case as unique, taking into account their specific priorities, expectations and circumstances, so I can deliver finely tuned strategic guidance that empowers them to address challenges and meet their aims.

I’m driven by a genuine commitment to helping clients succeed. There’s nothing more rewarding than securing a favourable outcome for clients, especially when the odds are stacked against us. 

Qualified in Singapore, as well as in England and Wales, I read law at the University of Nottingham, graduating with First Class Honours and obtained my LL.M at Cambridge University.

My experience

• Represented and advised a consortium of international bank creditors in relation to a wide-scale USD1.5 billion fraud perpetrated by a Singapore commodity trading company, including successfully obtaining freezing orders in Singapore and Hong Kong as well as a Norwich Pharmacal Order in Singapore.
• Advised and acted for a commodity trading company in a Singapore-seated ICC arbitration in respect of two long-term coal supply contracts
• Advising and acting for a Singapore commodity trading company in various London-seated LCIA arbitrations concerning contractual disputes for the sale and purchase of agricultural products
• Successfully represented a Japanese trading company in its claim against an English oil trading house in a Singapore-seated SIAC arbitration involving the sale and purchase of gasoil
• Successfully represented a bank in obtaining interlocutory judgment in the Singapore High Court in its claim for misdelivery of cargo
• Successfully acted for a Singapore commodity trading company in a SIAC arbitration seated in India involving the sale and purchase of iron ore pellets