Bio

After 20 years in South East Asia, including 14 in our Bangkok office, Alan Polivnick returned to Sydney in 2021. Alan focuses on transport, insurance and hospitality and provides a broad range of contentious, non-contentious, regulatory and commercial advice and assistance to clients in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific. He has extensive experience of litigation and dispute resolution across the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, India and South East and North East Asia. In his transport practice, Alan advises logistics companies, shipping lines, airlines and traders on a range of issues including breach of sale agreements, breach of contract claims, charterparty and contract of carriage disputes, warehousing and storage/handling disputes, vessel detention, infrastructure claims and disputes and commodity transaction disputes. Alan is a member of the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for Transport in South East Asia. Alan also advises on regulatory issues relating to e-commerce and ESG and regularly advises and represents clients in the hotel and hospitality sector in contentious matters. Alan also advises clients on their e-commerce and online operations, including inventory supply agreements and disputes, regulatory compliance and investigations, data privacy and consumer disclosure requirements and prosecutions and competition law. Alan regularly acts as Asia-Pacific and global lead counsel on the launch of travel, flight and online insurance platforms. Since 2012, Alan has been consistently ranked as a leading insurance lawyer by legal directories Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR 1000 and Expert Guides and has specific expertise in relation to online sales and marketing of consumer insurance products. Alan advises a broad range of investors on their investments and operations in ASEAN with a particular focus on cross-border investment in regulated sectors such as insurance and transport. In 2022, Chambers said “[Alan] provides excellent advice, commercially aware, reasonable costs and thorough engagement” and that he “gives advice that is to the point and he always tries to find a workable solution”. He is qualified to practise in England and Wales and Australia.