Palani is an Advocate & Solicitor, Adjudicator and a Construction Law / Commercial Law practitioner in  Penang, Malaysia and the founding partner of ADR Arbitration Chambers.

Palani holds a law degree with honors from University of London and admitted to the Malaysian Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in 1992. He holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration. He is empaneled as an Adjudicator with the Kuala Lumpur, Asian International Arbitration Centre since 2014.

He has served as Chairman of the Industrial Law Committee and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee in the Penang Bar Committee and has organised various talks in the those areas.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) since 2015 and a Fellow (Pioneer Member) of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Kuala Lumpur  (FAIADR) since 2018.

He has been in active practice for more than 28 years. His primary area of work is in civil dispute resolution representing corporations and individuals. He also represents corporations in Construction Law disputes and has written numerous awards as Adjudicator at AIAC.  In addition Palani has also presided as an arbitrator for the Pre–Moot to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration

Language: English, Malay & Tamil.