Karnan Thirupathy

Karnan is a Partner with the Kennedys’ Marine team and is concurrently a director with its Singapore joint law venture firm Legal Solutions LLC.

With over 20 years of experience in Asia, he specialises in resolving complex marine insurance and reinsurance claims across the region, as well as other related claims and disputes in the broader shipping and commodities sectors. Karnan is also particularly experienced in assisting clients in insurance, trade and shipping sectors with trade sanctions compliance and other regulatory issues. He is regularly instructed to advise insurers and other clients in the shipping and trade sectors on their sanctions compliance programmes and onboarding procedures, at-risk transactions, regulatory investigations and sanctions related disputes.

Karnan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was appointed by the Singapore Academy of Law in January 2020 as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law in recognition of his extensive expertise and experience in maritime law. He has also been consistently ranked as a leading individual in the areas in which he practices by legal industry publications Chambers Global, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Best Lawyers and Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal).