Tunku Farik, is an advocate and solicitor of both the Malayan and Singapore Bar, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has been specialising in Insurance/Reinsurance and Takaful/Retakaful Law both in advisory and litigation/arbitration for over 38 years. He was the Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Insurance Committee in 2016-2017, and previously a vice-chair from 2007-2011 and 2014-2016. He was the Jurisdictional Council Member for Malaysia at the IPBA from 2018-2023. He has also spoken at the International Insurance Fraud Conference and World Takaful Conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2010 and 2013 respectively, the 3rd Malaysia Insurance Summit 2013, the Asian Captive Conference 2017, as well as at IPBA, Lexis Nexis, Bank Negara and NICS Seminars. He is listed in Who’s Who Legal Insurance & Reinsurance. He has appeared in many landmark insurance cases in both the Court Appeal and Federal Court of Malaysia. He is an arbitrator with the Asian International Arbitration Centre in Malaysia, and currently the Regional Head for Malaysia and Panel Arbitrator at ARIAS Asia. ARIAS stands for AIDA (Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances) Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Association. ARIAS Asia is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes improvement of the insurance and reinsurance arbitration and mediation process for the international and domestic markets. He is currently the Vice-President of the Gray’s Inn Alumni, Malaysia.  He was elected to the Malaysian Bar Council for the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 terms and is currently the Co-Chair of the Professional Indemnity Committee and previous Chair for the Arbitration committee of the Bar. He is also recognized as a Benchmark Litigation Star 2022, Notable Practitioner in Asialaw 2023 Lawyers’ Ratings and Ranked Dispute Resolution lawyer 2026 by Chambers Asia-Pacific.

Like his grand-uncle, YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tunku Farik was educated at the Penang Free School and did his Masters of Law at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He is also the alumni representative for St Catharine’s College in Malaysia.