Julian Teoh

Julian is a specialist insurance and reinsurance lawyer (coverage and defence) with over twenty years’ post-qualification experience, having also worked in-house with Australia’s largest general insurer.

Julian has particular expertise in complex property, construction and business interruption claims, and has a growing practice advising professionals and company directors on coverage under their liability insurance.

He has worked in Asia since 2007 and has acted in disputes across Southeast Asia and North Asia arising from major regional and global events, including most recently the Covid-19 pandemic and Iran crisis. He speaks Bahasa Malaysia fluently and struggles to get by in Cantonese and French.

Julian advises clients on complex, high-value insurance claims, with particular experience in the energy, construction and hospitality sectors. He regularly acts on matters involving significant property damage, business interruption, construction and engineering losses across Asia and beyond.

His experience includes advising on a SGD 125 million property damage and business interruption claim arising from a mould outbreak at a major hotel and commercial complex in Singapore, as well as a USD 30 million machinery breakdown and business interruption claim involving an aluminium smelter in Malaysia. He has also advised a highway concessionaire in relation to a CECR claim following a major slope failure incident and assisted a Singapore-based investment fund with a professional indemnity claim connected to underlying New York litigation.

Julian’s practice further includes advising on a SGD 55 million fire claim at a renewable energy research institute and defending maintenance contractors in relation to a USD 6 million turbine failure dispute at a petrochemical facility.