Our Practice Areas

Renowned for our broad experience and expertise in shipping and admiralty law, we act as trusted legal counsel to maritime companies, regional operators, and leading commercial and development banks across Malaysia. Our practice spans the full asset lifecycle—from cross-border vessel sale and purchase (S&P) and shipbuilding agreements to industry-standard documentation and complex conventional and Islamic ship financing structures and maritime disputes. With extensive cross-border experience, we regularly advise shipping clients across the UAE, Indonesia and Brunei on their high-value maritime transactions.

• Cross-Border Transactional Mastery: Extensive track record advising shipowners, operators, and financiers across Malaysia and other foreign jurisdictions e.g. UAE, Indonesia, China, Brunei on high-stakes vessel acquisitions, S&P transactions, and shipbuilding contracts.
• Specialized Ship Financing: Proven authority in structuring, negotiating, and closing both conventional and Shariah-compliant maritime financing facilities with major commercial and development financial institutions.
• Institutional Standard Documentation: Trusted by maritime leaders and financial institutions to draft and standardize industry-grade security and financing documentation for major ship-owning corporations.

We deliver specialized legal advisory for high-value oil and gas infrastructure across Malaysia and key regional markets. Our energy practice advises operators, main contractors, and engineering consortia through every phase of major offshore and onshore developments. From initial procurement strategy to project close-out, we structure, draft, and negotiate complex engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contracts across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and India.

• Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure: Extensive track record advising multinational energy stakeholders on upstream and midstream assets across Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
• Complex EPC & EPCI Contracts: Specialized in structuring, drafting, and negotiating high-stakes contracts for offshore engineering, heavy fabrication, subsea installation, and topside construction.
• Risk Mitigation & Project Governance: Aligning international energy contracting standards (FIDIC, LOGIC) with domestic regulatory, licensing, and compliance frameworks to protect project economics and prevent disputes.

We manage a substantial, high-value portfolio of corporate, banking, and conveyancing matters for institutional and private clients. Our corporate practice delivers end-to-end transactional execution—from cross-border joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to Shariah-compliant corporate banking documentation and strategic advisory. We have structured multi-jurisdictional ventures connecting Malaysian enterprises with partners from other foreign jurisdictions, and have conducted extensive legal due diligence exercises for various transactions involving companies listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia as well as Ace Market including major acquisitions, capital reductions and private placement exercises.

• Cross-Border M&A & Joint Ventures :Share sale agreements, business asset acquisitions, cross-border restructuring, and joint ventures, and extensive record structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex joint venture and equity participation agreements connecting domestic corporations with foreign partners in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
• Capital Markets & Due Diligence:Proven capability in managing rigorous legal due diligence exercises, capital reductions, private placements, and corporate reorganizations.
• Integrated Banking & Property Advisory:Seamless management of substantial conveyancing portfolios, commercial real estate acquisitions, and Shariah-compliant institutional facility documentation.

Backed by decades of combined experience, our banking practice advises Malaysia’s premier commercial and development financial institutions. As key panel solicitors for institutional lenders, we specialize in high-value asset-backed and maritime financing structures. Our dual capability in transactional facility documentation and contentious banking litigation enables us to safeguard financial assets through the entire lifecycle of every facility.

• Conventional & Islamic Banking: Structuring Murabahah, Ijarah, Musyarakah, and bilateral/syndicated credit facilities.
• Facility & Security Documentation: Standardized master agreements, debentures, legal charges, and cross-border guarantees.
• Ship & Specialized Asset Financing: & asset financing: Cross-border maritime securities, statutory mortgages, and asset-backed debt structures.
• Banking Litigation & Enforcement: Debt recovery, security enforcement, receivership advisory, and foreclosure proceedings.

We provide comprehensive legal services in relation to residential and commercial property transactions, advising clients throughout the transaction lifecycle—from initial negotiations and documentation through to completion, registration and post-completion matters.

Our experience includes subsale transactions, developer sales, property financing and refinancing, transfers, discharges of charge, perfection of transfer and charge, as well as the preparation of ancillary property documentation and applications for all relevant consents and approvals.

We work closely with purchasers, vendors, developers, financial institutions and other stakeholders to ensure that each transaction is handled efficiently and accurately, with careful attention to our clients’ legal, commercial and practical interests.

Strategic Dispute Resolution & Litigation Counsel. We represent corporations, financial institutions, shipowners, operators, directors, shareholders and private clients in complex commercial disputes before the Malaysian Courts and in arbitral proceedings. Our dispute resolution practice combines rigorous legal analysis with practical commercial strategy, covering the full lifecycle of a dispute from pre-action advisory, negotiation and urgent interim relief to trial, appellate proceedings, arbitration, enforcement and settlement. Our experience spans commercial and contractual disputes, banking and finance litigation, maritime and admiralty claims, shareholder and corporate disputes, employment matters, land and property disputes, debt recovery and enforcement proceedings. In cross-border and international disputes, we also work alongside leading foreign counsel and established international arbitrators, including co-counsel relationships with prominent Singapore practices.

• Commercial & Corporate Litigation: Acting in contractual disputes, shareholder and director disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, corporate governance disputes and other complex commercial proceedings.
• Banking, Finance & Enforcement: Representing financial institutions and corporate clients in debt recovery, security enforcement, foreclosure, receivership-related matters, guarantees, indemnities and other contentious financing matters.
• Shipping & Admiralty Disputes: Advising and representing shipowners, operators and maritime stakeholders in charterparty disputes, vessel-related claims, marine services disputes, cargo and contractual claims, ship arrests and security-related proceedings.
• Arbitration & Cross-Border Disputes: Acting in domestic and international arbitrations and working with foreign counsel and international arbitrators on multi-jurisdictional disputes, including applications for interim relief and recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards.
• Appellate & Strategic Litigation: Conducting appeals and applications before the appellate courts, including matters involving significant questions of contractual interpretation, procedural law and commercial consequence.
• Pre-Dispute Strategy & Alternative Resolution: : Providing early case assessment, risk analysis, negotiation strategy, mediation and settlement advisory with the aim of protecting clients’ commercial position while managing litigation exposure and cost.

Advising and representing corporations, employers and individuals across a broad range of employment and industrial relations matters, including dismissal and disciplinary proceedings, breach of employment and training obligations, contractual claims and proceedings before the Industrial Court and Malaysian Courts. Our experience also extends to specialized maritime employment and personnel matters involving seafarers, cadets and maritime personnel, including disputes arising from cadetship and training agreements, bonds, service obligations, termination, recovery of training costs and related contractual claims. We provide strategic advice from internal disciplinary and pre-dispute stages through litigation, appeals, settlement and enforcement.

We advise executors, administrators and beneficiaries on the administration and distribution of testate and intestate estates in Malaysia. Our services encompass the relevant court and land administration processes, from obtaining probate, letters of administration or a distribution order to administering and distributing the deceased’s assets to the beneficiaries.

• Probate and Letters of Administration:Applications to the High Court for grant of letters of administration, including the preparation of the requisite court papers and supporting documents.
• Small Estate Distribution: Applications before the relevant authorities or Land Office, including applications for distribution orders and amendments to the particulars of estate assets.
• Administration and Distribution of Estate Assets: Identification, collection, administration, transfer and distribution of movable and immovable assets, including the settlement of the deceased’s liabilities.
• Sale of Estate Property: Applications for order for sale and advice on the sale, transfer and realisation of property forming part of an estate.
• Succession Advisory: Advice to executors, administrators and beneficiaries on their rights, duties and entitlements under the applicable Malaysian laws.

Our firm provides Notary Public services for individuals, companies and organisations requiring documents to be notarised for use in Malaysia and overseas.

Our Notary Public services include:

• Notarisation and certification of documents;
• Attestation and certification of signatures and documents;
• Verification of identity and execution of documents;
• Certification of true copies of documents; and
• Notarisation of documents intended for use outside Malaysia.

We aim to provide reliable and efficient notarial services to meet the requirements of clients, government authorities, foreign authorities, embassies and other institutions.

Our firm further provides Commissioner for Oaths services for individuals, companies and organisations requiring documents to be sworn, affirmed, witnessed or attested before a Commissioner for Oaths. As particularly provided under the Commissioners for Oaths Rules 2018, our Commissioner for Oaths, appointed in the category of Advocate and Solicitor, is authorised to provide the following services:

• Receiving acknowledgements of a married woman where such acknowledgement is required by law; Extensive track record advising multinational energy stakeholders on upstream and midstream assets across Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
• Receiving acknowledgements of recognizances of bail and bail bonds;
• Administering oaths in relation to:
• justification for bail;
• affidavits and affirmations;
• the taking of answers, pleas, demurrers, disclaimers, allegations or examinations of parties to an action;
• the examination of witnesses;
• the swearing of executors and administrators in probate and administration proceedings; and
• persons in any action, matter or proceeding pending or about to be instituted in any court; and
• Taking and receiving statutory declarations.

We provide these services in a professional, efficient and convenient manner.

We provide practical and comprehensive corporate secretarial support to companies in meeting their statutory, regulatory and corporate governance obligations.

Our services include company incorporation and establishment, preparation and maintenance of statutory registers and records, corporate resolutions, directors’ and shareholders’ matters, share allotments and transfers, changes in company particulars, and the preparation and filing of statutory forms and returns with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM), together with other corporate secretarial and compliance matters.

We also assist companies with corporate restructuring, applications for striking off, changes to share capital, redemption of shares and redeemable preference shares, and rectification of company records and statutory filings, ensuring that corporate records remain accurate, properly maintained and compliant with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Our approach is to provide responsive, reliable and commercially practical advice while ensuring that clients remain compliant with their statutory obligations and corporate governance requirements.