Selected experience includes:
For twenty five years, Chanaka has advised major upstream contractors on a wide range of issues arising under contracts for PRE-FEED, FEED, EPC, conversion, EPCI, EPCIC, lease & operate, operations & maintenance and decommissioning. The offshore operating assets involved include drillships, jack-up rigs, semisubmersible rigs, FPSOs, operating in oil fields in Australia, North Sea, Brazil, Guyana, Mexico and India. His practice has grown to include renewables such as wind and solar farms projects in the Philippines, North Sea and USA.
He is a well-known Asia based senior arbitration counsel, recognised in the Legal 500 as lead counsel in complex arbitrations. With his team, he regularly leads arbitrations under London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Badan Arbitrase Nasional Indonesia (BANI), London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) international rules, seated in various locations including Singapore, India, Dubai, New York, London and Indonesia.
Chanaka is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and listed as an arbitrator on the SIAC reserve panel. He has also been appointed to the Asian International Arbitration Centre panel both as an arbitrator and a mediator. He has sat on the SIAC Users Council National Committee for Singapore and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) Procedure Committee.
