practice areas

Contract Disputes (including breach of contract, specific performance and liquidated damages)

Tort Claims (including negligence and trespass)

Defamation Claims (including libel, slander, online defamation, social media disputes) 

Property Disputes (including tenancy disputes and recovery of arrears)

Fraud & Misrepresentation

Insurance Disputes (including motor and property damage claims)

Corporate & Company Disputes (including shareholder oppression claims and director disputes and removal)

Partnership Disputes (including partnership dissolution and breach of partnership agreement)

Construction Disputes (including PAM/CIDB/PWD contract disputes, defective works, delay and disruption claims, retention sums, variation orders, performance bond calls, CIPAA adjudication)

Consumer & Product Liability

Debt Recovery & Commercial Credit (including trade debts, supplier invoices, commercial loans, guarantees indemnities)

Procurement & Supply Contracts (including breach of supply agreements, tender disputes, contract termination, delivery and performance disputes) 

Commercial Real Estate Disputes (including commercial lease disputes, shopping mall tenancy, office space disputes) 

Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring (including winding up petitions, judicial management applications, scheme of arrangement proceedings, intervener proceedings)

Conventional Financing Recovery (including housing loans, personal financing, term loans, revolving credit, overdraft facilities)

Islamic Financing Recovery (including Murabahah, Ijarah, Bai Bithaman Ajil, Tawarruq)

Hire Purchase & Asset Financing (including motor vehicle financing, commercial vehicle recovery, machinery and equipment financing,)

Credit Card & Retail Portfolio Recovery (including credit card debt recovery, retail credit facilities, mass portfolio litigation)

Guarantees & Indemnities 

Security Enforcement

Licensed Moneylending Recovery pursuant to Moneylenders Act 1951

Appeals & Reviews 

Execution & Enforcement (see Execution & Enforcement section)

Ship Arrest & Release 

In Rem & In Personam Actions 

Charterparty Disputes 

Bills of Lading & Cargo Claims

Collision & Salvage 

Towage Disputes 

Ship Sale & Purchase 

Shipbuilding Contracts 

Marine Insurance 

Port & Terminal Disputes 

Bunker Disputes 

Crew & Seafarer Claims 

General Average 

Limitation of Liability

Ship Mortgage & Maritime Liens 

Admiralty Court Procedures 

Maritime Arbitration 

Environmental & Pollution (including oil pollution claims, bunker pollution, MARPOL violations, ballast water disputes, wreck removal claims, environmental damage)

Offshore & Subsea

Dry Docking & Repairs 

Police Investigation Stage (including representation during arrest and detention, attendance at police station, remand proceedings, police bond and bail applications, advice on statements, liaison with investigating officers, return of seized property)

Sexual Offences

Violent Crimes

Property Crimes (including theft, house breaking, robbery, armed robbery, gang robbery, dacoity, criminal breach of trust, dishonest misappropriation, receiving stolen property, criminal trespass, mischief and damage to property)

Fraud & Cheating Offences (including cheating, forgery, counterfeiting documents, making and using false documents, personation, identity theft, criminal conspiracy to cheat)

Corruption & White Collar Crime 

Cybercrime & Digital Offences

Drug Offences 

Public Order & Morality Offences (including public nuisance, obscenity, gambling, prostitution-related offences, unlawful assembly, unlawful societies)

Traffic & Road Transport Offences

Court Proceedings (including court mentions and case management, plea and charge advice, plea bargain and DNAA negotiations, bail applications and reviews, preliminary inquiry representation, full trial conduct, cross-examination, no case submissions, defence case presentation, expert witnesses)

Sentencing & Mitigation 

Appeals (including notice of appeal for conviction and sentence, petition of appeal preparation, record of appeal, appeal hearings at High Court and Court of Appeal, leave to appeal to Federal Court, revision applications)

Special Procedures (including juvenile offender representation, Court for Children proceedings, unsoundness of mind defence, diminished responsibility, psychiatric reports, compounding of offences, representation to Attorney General's Chambers and DPP, pardon applications, remission and early release)

Bankruptcy Proceedings 

Winding Up Proceedings

Foreclosure Proceedings (including Land Office foreclosure, High Court foreclosure, LACA proceedings)

Garnishee Proceedings

Writ of Seizure and Sale 

Judgment Debtor Summons 

Appointment of Receiver 

Enforcement Against Movable Property 

Enforcement Against Immovable Property 

Contempt Proceedings

Foreign Judgments & International Enforcement (including registration of foreign judgments, registration of foreign arbitral awards, enforcement of registered judgments, cross-border insolvency proceedings)

Employment Contracts & Advisory (including drafting and reviewing employment contracts, service agreements, fixed-term and permanent contracts, probationary terms, employee handbooks, HR policies, disciplinary and grievance procedures)

Wrongful and Unfair Dismissal

Constructive Dismissal

Retrenchment & Redundancy

Industrial Relations Act Matters

Employment Act Claims

Employees Provident Fund (EPF/KWSP)

Employee Misconduct & Discipline

Sexual Harassment (including internal sexual harassment complaints, Committee of Inquiry establishment, investigation procedures, disciplinary action, Tribunal for Sexual Harassment claims, compensation applications, employer liability defense)

Foreign Workers & Immigration (including Employment Pass and work permit applications, quota compliance, levy payments, Immigration Act compliance, anti-trafficking compliance, employer obligations, accommodation and welfare, repatriation, expatriate employment contracts)

Will Drafting & Estate Planning 

Trust Arrangements 

Powers of Attorney & Advance Directives 

Grant of Probate Applications 

Letters of Administration Applications

Estate Administration & Distribution

Small Estate Distribution 

Beneficiary & Distribution Disputes 

Estate Property Disputes 

Family Provision Claims 

Intestacy Disputes 

Estate Recovery & Asset Protection 

Cross-Border Estates (including resealing of foreign grants in Malaysia, Malaysian grants recognition abroad)

Mental Health & Incapacity (including applications for committee appointments under Mental Health Act 2001)

Divorce & Dissolution

Custody of Children 

Care & Control of Children

Access & Visitation of Children

Spousal Maintenance

Child Maintenance

Division of Matrimonial Assets 

Sale & Transfer of Matrimonial Assets

Injunctions & Property Claims (including Mareva injunctions, prevent disposal of matrimonial assets, prevent removal of children from jurisdiction, occupation orders, beneficial interest claims, resulting trust, constructive trust, proprietary estoppel)

Domestic Violence (including Interim Protection Order, Protection Order, Emergency Protection Order)

Adoption

Guardianship (including guardianship of minors, testamentary guardian appointments, court-appointed guardians, guardian ad litem, variation and removal of guardians)

Variation & Enforcement 

Appeals 

Alternative Dispute Resolution (including mediation for divorce and ancillary matters, collaborative family law, settlement conferences, consent orders, separation agreements)

High Net Worth & Complex Divorces

International & Cross-Border Matters (including international child custody disputes, Hague Convention matters, recognition and enforcement of foreign orders)

Company Formation & Incorporation 

Corporate Restructuring

Shareholders' Agreements 

Share Transactions & Equity

Investment Agreements 

Commercial Contracts 

Procurement & Supply Chain 

Non-Disclosure & Confidentiality Agreement

Construction Contracts (including PAM contracts and PWD forms, variation orders)

Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption

Personal Data Protection (including PDPA compliance, privacy notices and policies)

Employment Contracts & Policies 

Termination & Exit Management (including termination advice for dismissal and redundancy, settlement agreements, VSS/MSS schemes, retrenchment compliance, notice periods, reference letters)

Restrictive Covenants & Foreign Workers

Dispute Prevention & Risk Management 

Judicial Review

Constitutional Challenge

Immigration & Deportation (including challenge to detention under Immigration Act, overstaying offences defense, deportation order challenges, entry permit refusals, work permit and employment pass issues, representations to Immigration Department and Attorney General's Chambers, habeas corpus for immigration detention, refugee and asylum seeker representation)

Anti-Trafficking & Smuggling (ATIPSOM) (including defense in trafficking and smuggling proceedings, victim identification challenges, place of refuge orders, interim protection orders, challenge to certification as trafficked person, repatriation issues)

Habeas Corpus (including unlawful detention challenges, immigration detention, police detention beyond legal limits, mental health detention, prison detention irregularities, preventive detention challenges)

Administrative Law (including challenge to administrative decisions, review of licensing decisions, challenge to enforcement actions, review of regulatory penalties, appeal of administrative sanctions, natural justice violations, statutory appeals to High Court from tribunals and statutory boards)

Regulatory Compliance & Licensing (including challenge to refusal, revocation and suspension of business licenses, renewal disputes, license condition challenges, appeal licensing decisions, professional regulation and disciplinary proceedings, practicing certificate issues, industry-specific regulation matters)

Enforcement & Regulatory Action (including representation during regulatory investigations, response to show cause notices and non-compliance notices, objection to regulatory findings, challenge to regulatory fines and penalties, appeal penalty assessments, mitigation for regulatory breaches, challenge to enforcement notices and stop orders)

Education & Academic Disputes (including challenge to university decisions, academic disciplinary matters, expulsion and suspension challenges, examination results disputes, scholarship termination, educational authority decisions)

Prisons & Detention (including challenge to prison disciplinary decisions, prison conditions complaints, parole and remission disputes, transfer of prisoners, rights of prisoners)

Human Rights (including SUHAKAM complaints and representation, human rights violation complaints, discrimination challenges, minority rights protection, indigenous rights including Orang Asli and native customary rights)

Sale & Purchase Transactions (including new property, sub-sale, auction)

Loan & Security Documentation

Transfer & Perfection

Supporting Documentation & Clearances

Mortgages & Charges 

End-Financing & Bank Panel Work 

Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) 

Foreign Ownership Compliance 

Islamic Property Transactions

Estate Property Transfers