This department comprises of the Securities Documentation Unit and Litigation Unit. Being the largest practice group in our firm, the advocates and solicitors in this team handle a variety of securities documentation and litigation cases for our Banking and Finance clients.

The Securities Documentation Unit handles banking documentation in various fields which are:

The Litigation Unit comprises of:

This team is fully committed to the highest standard of practice ensuring that our Banking client’s interests are fully protected at all times.

Areas of Practice:

This group comprises a select team of senior and experienced advocates and solicitors whose primary task is dedicated to handling all appellate, corporate and commercial cases for our clients. The advocates and solicitors of this practise group have specialised knowledge and extensive trial and appellate experience at all levels of the Malaysian Courts and are well experienced to conduct all forms of appellate cases as well as complex corporate and commercial litigation.

Each client and case is handled personally by one of the senior counsels from this practice group who is available at all times to provide assistance and advise on all legal issues related to them.

The team members of this group have undertaken various types of briefs in numerous areas of corporate, commercial and civil litigation. Not only are they well versed and experienced in handling complex cases involving commercial issues but are also apt at handling the more simpler litigation that affects the lives of ordinary people everywhere. This practice group concentrates and emphasises on addressing legal issues affecting our client’s businesses and their personal matters.

Our counsels are also well aware of the need for compromise and negotiations in certain complex situations and appear regularly as counsel before administrative and regulatory tribunals as well as in private forums involving negotiations, mediation, commercial arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Our corporate team advises clients from the private and public sectors on all corporate matters and issues. The team also handles all legal documentation in corporate matters for our clients and is instrumental to the preparation of numerous corporate contracts including:

Corporate Documentation:

This practice group emphasises on all residential as well as commercial conveyancing matters for our corporate and banking clients. The team handles all legal documentations including:

The team also advices clients on matters relating to the administration of estate including:

The partners in this group have vast knowledge on all types of property transactions which involve both local and foreign citizens and also in respect of requirement of various authorities.

This team comprises of selected team of experienced and compassionate senior lawyers who will advise and guide our clients in making informed decisions possible for their family’s future.

The team handles all types of

• Divorce & Judicial Separation
• Nullity
• Child Custody & Maintenance
• Adoption Matter
• Child and Spouse Support
• Distribution of Matrimonial Property
  

Many family law clients go through very difficult and emotional phase and our team is very sensitive to the needs of each of our client and will assist them in providing guidance and advice to enable them to reach a fair and constructive solution to their problem.

In recent times alternative dispute resolution is vastly advocated by all parties as a speedier, inexpensive, flexible and non-adversarial means of dispute resolution. Mediation is now a popular mechanism for dispute resolution in litigation.

In tandem with the development on this area, the firm has taken an active step to train its partners in the area of mediation. The partners in this area of practice are duly trained and are regitered/certified mediators of the Malaysian Mediation Centre.

The objective of mediation process is for the parties to reach an agreement that they each believe is mutually fair. Hence our mediators are trained to actively encourage the parties to reach a mutually acceptable solution to their dispute by exercising effective skills and procedures in the mediation process.

Upon reaching an agreement, our skilled mediators would also assist the parties in reducing the resultant agreement to writing for signature, avoiding ambiguity and any possible further dispute on the same issues.

This team advises many local authorities in Malaysia on all issues and/ or legal disputes relating to local authorities.

The partner in this team has specialized knowledge and is well versed in all the bye laws, regulations and statutes that is related to the local authorities and has considerable experience in handling all trials in court up to the Federal Court’s level.

This team deals and advises clients on issues relating to the assessment, tenancy, town planning, building plan, licensing and etc.

Areas of Practice and Expertise:

This team advises and handles all issues relating to Employment and Labour laws and practices in Malaysia. The partner in this team has specialized knowledge and considerable trial experiences at the Industrial Court and Appellate Court levels pertaining to both employers and employees in relation to employment matters

This team also advises corporate clients on the issues involved with regards to termination, dismissal, retrenchment etc. of employees and how to avoid the pitfalls and costly consequences as a result of taking the aforesaid action.