Malaysia

Firm Overview

Wong Beh & Toh has an established practice in various corporate and commercial areas including, in equity and debt corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities and capital markets, corporate transactions, venture capital and private equity funds, strategic alliances and joint ventures, foreign direct investment, corporate and commercial loans, commercial and construction real estate, competition & antitrust law, data protection law, intellectual property law and financing.

Firm Overview

We are a growing disciplinary practice with about forty lawyers in the firm. Our practice provides legal advice and services in the areas of insurance, banking, conveyancing matters, corporate and securities, intellectual property and other commercial transactions.

Firm Overview

Firm Overview

Shearn Delamore & Co. is one of the largest award-winning full service law firms in Malaysia with more than 100 lawyers and 230 support staff. It has the resources to manage complex cross-border transactions, projects and matters.

Its clients include multinationals, private equity, government agencies and private clients. It is regularly instructed by and works with international law firms. Shearn Delamore & Co.’s global reach and network include member firms of the World Law Group, the World Services Group, the Employment Law Alliance, Drew Network Asia and other international organisations and multilateral agencies.

Shearn Delamore & Co. has formed an alliance with Drew & Napier LLC from Singapore, Makarim & Taira S. from Indonesia and Martinez Vergara Gonzalez & Serrano Law from the Philippines, which is a formidable blue-chip legal network named Drew Network Asia (DNA). DNA is a ‘firm of firms’ that operates as a united collective, bringing both international perspectives and local expertise to the table.

The firm’s diverse experience and interdisciplinary collaborations enables it to provide clients with a complimentary range of skills to meet their needs. It is consistently highly ranked by Chambers & Partners, International Financial Law Review (IFLR) 1000, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and Asialaw Profiles.

Our Awards

Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards (2021)
Malaysia Law Firm of the Year

International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards (2022)
Malaysia Law Firm of the Year

Asian Legal Business Malaysia Law Awards (2022)
Malaysia Law Firm of the Year

Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards (2021)
Malaysia Law Firm of the Year

Chambers Asia Pacific (2022)
Band 1 Firm for Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Employment and Industrial Relations, Intellectual Property and Tax

IFLR 1000 (2022)
Top Tier Firm for Corporate/M&A

Asialaw Profiles (2022)
Outstanding Firm for Banking & Financial Services and Real Estate industry sector
Outstanding Firm for Construction, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment and Tax practice areas

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2022)
Top Tier Firm for Antitrust and Competition, Banking and Finance, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, Real Estate and Construction, Shipping and Tax

Firm Overview

Established in 2015, Cecil Abraham & Partners is a focused set of disputes practitioners and is the only Malaysian law firm involved in investment treaty disputes with significant appearances in ICSID cases both as counsel and as arbitrator. The team has successfully arbitrated some of Malaysia’s most intricate and high-profile disputes covering commercial law, public administrative law, environmental law and constitutional law. Partners of the firm have also argued some of the seminal cases before the apex courts in Malaysia in so far as contractual claims, fraud litigation, defamation claims, public and administrative law, as well as constitutional law, to name a few.

A dispute resolution firm offering a full range of legal services – advisory, strategic, preventive and dispute resolution – Cecil Abraham & Partners regularly advises and acts for Fortune 500 companies, media conglomerates, government-linked companies and high-net-worth individuals, as well as not-for-profit entities, charities, private individuals, and private limited companies.

Cecil Abraham & Partners remains sought after for its expertise in arbitration, and the last year has seen the firm involved in a number of notable cases spanning the construction and hospitality industries, oil and gas, and the financial and investment sectors, with amounts ranging from USD 7.5 million to USD 2.4 billion. In litigation, the firm represented multinational corporations in disputes relating to building and construction, engineering, agriculture, and telecommunications valued between MYR 40 million and MYR 1 billion. The firm also continues to act in high-profile disputes concerning rare earth mining, banking, and finance, as well as public and administrative law.

The firm has consistently ranked in the top tiers on Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific, Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Benchmark Litigation, and Asia Law Profiles. The firm’s lawyers are also ranked favourably by directories including Lexology Index (formerly known as Who’s Who Legal), Asian Legal Business, Benchmark Litigation, Global Arbitration Review, Asia Law Profiles, Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

Firm Overview

Zi Li & Partners is a boutique law firm that was established in Malaysia in 2022 with collaborating firms in Vietnam and Indonesia. Together with our collaborating and best friends firms within the ASEAN region, we provide pragmatic and commercially oriented legal solutions for local and foreign clients to support their business and operations in Malaysia and beyond.

We advise local and foreign corporations, investors and financial institutions across a wide variety of projects and sectors with a strong emphasis on banking and finance and corporate and commercial. We have worked with clients from different backgrounds, spectrums, industries and we have gained a reputation for our knowledge, diligence and ability to devise innovative and workable solutions to satisfy the complex needs of our clients.