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Anand Raj was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1996 and has been a partner of Shearn Delamore & Co. since 2003. Anand’s practice areas include all aspects of tax and transfer pricing disputes and litigation as well as competition law and antitrust. Anand is the Co-Head of the firm’s Antitrust Practice.

Anand was recognised as the 2017 Asia Tax Disputes and Litigation Practice Leader of the Year by the International Tax Review (ITR). Anand Raj is consistently ranked in Tier 1 of ITR (2013-2018) and Chambers (2011-2018) tax law practitioners and has also been listed in Who’s Who Legal: Corporate Tax Lawyers in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Anand has also been recognized in the International Who’s Who Legal: Competition Lawyers for 2013-2018 and has also been recognised as a leader in his fields by the Global Competition Review (GCR), Chambers Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles and other directories.

Anand is the Chair of the Tax Committee of the Malaysian Bar Council and the Chair of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), Malaysia Branch. He is also a member of the IFA Asia Pacific Regional Committee. Anand is the Malaysia Rapporteur for the International Bar Association’s (IBA’s) Antitrust Committee, the Co-Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA’s) Competition Law Committee, International Member of the American Bar Association (ABA’s) Antitrust Section, Inaugural Chair of LAWASIA’s Antitrust and Competition Law Sub-Committee, and a member of the Competition Law Sub-Committee of the Bar Council, Malaysia.