Staff Profile

CAPT LEE FOOK CHOON (李 福 泉)
Master Mariner, MNI, ACII, FCIArb, LL.M(Wales), Chartered Arbitrator,
Listed Mediator
Position : Technical Director

Direct Telephone No: (852) 82268420
Direct E-mail: captainlee@integralmarine.com
Skype Contact: captleesir

Backgrounds
Besides holding the post as Technical Director in our Hong Kong Operations, Capt Lee Fook Choon is also the principal officer of Integral Marine Consultants, Singapore and also concurrently acting as consultant to IMC’s associate offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, China. He has been working as an insurance claims loss adjuster for marine insurers for the last 27 years and as a maritime arbitrator since 1993. Over the years, he has also been active as a cross-border dispute mediators in Singapore, China and Vietnam.

As head of the company, he is involved in the day-to day management of the company, business development region wide, conducting surveys and fraud investigations of substantial magnitude, supervision of fellow colleagues, training of new entrants, delivering technical talks to institutions and acting as arbitrators in various maritime disputes. To date, he has handled more than 7000 cases of marine related losses and loss adjustment work either directly or together with his colleagues.

Capt Lee is an experienced Loss Adjuster and Maritime Arbitrator and by qualifications is a master mariner, a chartered arbitrator with the UK Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, holder of ACII and a master degree in maritime law from Cardiff Law School. He is also a Chartered Insurance Practitioner. He is a panel maritime arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Hongkong International Arbitration Centre, China Maritime Arbitration Commission, Indian Arbitration Council, Regional Arbitration Centre Kuala Lumpur and Institute of Arbitrators UK. His areas of interests are charter party disputes, insurance claims, collision liabilities, ship repairs and ship building disputes and international sales of goods disputes.

As a Loss Adjuster, he had represented many insurers in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany, UK, Scandinavia, China and Hongkong in handling thousands of marine hull and cargo cases. He heads an operation with associate offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and China. With him onboard, we are able to enlarge considerably our scope of services and penetrations to a large network of associates in many countries.

EXPERIENCE OF CAPT LEE FOOK CHOON

Hull Survey/Investigation / Loss Adjustment
More than 27 years experience in surveying/investigation major hull losses like collision, fire stranding, heavy weather damage and sinking in South East Asia, India, Middle East and China on behalf of hull and machinery insurers in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Norway, Vietnam and Hongkong. Such experience also involved related work on off-shore platforms and production rigs as well as fixed structures like wharf, piers, jetties, dolphins, single buoy moorings etc.

Cargo Losses and Investigations
Had been appointed by major insurers in China, Singapore, UK, Malaysia, Indonesia and Germany to conduct investigations and to limit claims in large cargo losses involving a range of products like machineries, rice, timber, commodities, plant produce, hydrocarbon and vegetable oils.

Loss Prevention and Risk Assessment
Have acted on behalf of many insurers on loss prevention and risk assessment surveys involving ships, suction dredgers, manufacturing plants in Malaysia and Indonesia, risk assessment of movements of heavy machineries in inland transit modes, privatized ports and shipyards in Singapore and Malaysia.

Liability Investigations
Have been appointed by insurers in Malaysia and Singapore to investigate liabilities on hull policies, cargo policies, mortgagee interests insurance policies and seller interests insurance policies.

Arbitration and Mediation
Have seated as sole arbitrator and as a member of a two arbitrator or three arbitrators tribunal in more than 15 maritime arbitration proceedings involving trade, charter party, quality of goods and custom duties disputes. As a mediator, had acted successfully as a transnational mediator in more than 8 cases involving claims between Norwegian and Mainland Chinese interests, between Singapore/Norwegian interests, between Singapore and Vietnamese interests etc.

Conducting Seminars
Have participated as seminar speakers in many international maritime seminars held in London, Rotterdam, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Hangzhou and Jakarta. Also conducted customized in-house lectures for insurance companies in Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong solely for their managers and agents. Had also participated as one of the seminar speakers in regional conferences organized by AIU and CGU. Besides the above, Capt Lee is a regular lecturer with The Singapore College of Insurance, a non-profit making institution owned by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and an approved tutor of the UK Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.



Perrine K. B. Chan LL.B (Hons), MCIArb
Position : Director

Backgrounds
Perrine started her insurance career by first joining Asia Insurance Co Ltd in September 1981 in the Marine Claims Department handling marine cargo claims and in November 1984 joined a local recovery company (later renamed as Toplis & Harding (Recoveries) Ltd) chiefly involved in the handling of marine cargo claims adjustment & recoveries and started to involve in assisting the development of business in the insurance market. During mid 1989, Perrine joined another local recovery company assuming the position of Manager and also undertook the supervision of the staff in the non-marine claims recovery matters.

In December 1992, Perrine had set up her business in running an insurance claims consultant company when she had actively involved in the marketing of the Company and also undertook the handling of the work for the Cargo Underwriters. During this period, Perrine had traveled extensively to the Asian countries to develop business with main focus on the People’s Republic of China, at the same time, also looking after the office management and administration work.
In May 1996, Perrine rejoined Toplis to assist in developing the Marine & Recoveries divisions which were formally incorporated as two subsidiary companies of Toplis. With her continuous efforts, the divisions under her supervision have extensively expanded from 3 members to over 20 members including the recent set up of the airport operation office in 2005.

During the past 25 years working in the professional field, Perrine has been involved in investigations in a number of significant marine insurance claims which enable Cargo Underwriters to assess policy liability on technical issues and to enable subrogated Cargo Underwriters to preserve sufficient evidence in pursuing successful recovery actions against responsible parties in the Admiralty Court Actions.

EXPERIENCE
Marine Cargo Claims Survey, Settling and Recoveries
Cargo Loss Investigations
Aviation Claims Handling
Non-Marine & Motor Recoveries
Goods in Transit Claims Handling
Policy Liability Consultant
Bailee / Forwarder’s Liability Consultant