AREAS OF PRACTICE

We advise on a wide scope of property transactions for real estate matters including residential, commercial, retail, industrial property and land. We represent vendors, purchasers, property developers, contractors and financiers in a considerable variety of matters such as:

• Applications to the relevant regulatory bodies and authorities for consent pertaining to dealings with landed and non-landed matters
• Assignment and vesting of rights in landed and non landed property
• Charges and other form of securities either provided for in the Malaysian National Land Code 1965, or any other land legislation or otherwise
• Financing of property purchase or security
• Discharge of securities and loan for disposal of property
• Housing and other land development projects for residential and commercial properties
• Technical due diligence exercise
• Issues relating to strata titles and building and common properties
• Sale and purchase of residential, commercial, industrial properties, land and auction properties
• Tenancies, leases and licences of residential, commercial and industrial properties
• Residential and commercial development project
• Teal property gains tax advice
• General taxation advise

We provide services to the local banks in all spheres of banking litigation, formal and informal debt restructuring, private debt work-outs and in various regulatory proceedings. Our practice involves all aspects of debt recovery claims by banks and financial institution including claims pursuant to syndicated loans, trade financing facilities, private debt securities and share margin transactions.

We also provide services in the fields of civil and commercial disputes, with the objective of helping our clients to resolve their disputes in the most efficient manner, whether through litigation, mediation or arbitration.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Construction disputes
• Commercial litigation
• Disputes involving breach of contract
• Factoring, hire purchase, leasing claims
• Insolvency advice pertaining to liquidation,special administration, restructuring, receivers and managers
• Motor vehicle claims and defence
• Employment disputes
• Landlord and tenant disputes
• Distress action
• Partnership disputes
• Joint venture and shareholder disputes
• Defamation
• Tortious disputes such as defamation or negligence
• Injunction application

Our counsels are also in practice with the full coverage of criminal law services which range from penal code offences, drug offences, commercial crime, firearms and other related criminal offences.

We provide services from the date of arrest, remand, charge, plea bargaining, trial up till to the appellate stage of the matter and every case are taken care of individually by the counsel as criminal cases may vary according to the facts of the case.

We provide a comprehensive range of in-house company corporate and secretarial support services for both private as well as public-listed companies in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

We also provide services for the incorporation of companies (local and off-shore), the making of applications for the registration of branch offices offoreign corporations, the obtaining of approvals for representative offices, regional offices, operational headquarters, the provision of information on immigration matters, application for foreign investment committee (FIC) approvals and applications for manufacturing license. We have the advantage and benefit of the advice and guidance from our corporate and commercial practice.

We provide services which involve divorce which comprises of the issues from joint petition, single petition, rights of custody, guardianship, care and control of children as well as the application involving matrimonial property.

For cases which falls under the category of annulment we provide services ranging from legal consultation up till the matter resolved at court.

We also provide services for adoption matters whereby our services initiates from legal consultation to filing the summons and until the extraction of the adoption certificate.

We provide services for all kind of defamation matters involving both libel and slander whereby our consultation will include research as well legal advice on the interest of client depending on each case as it involves the reputation of the client.

Our advice range from the publication, interpretation of the defamatory statement and as well our clients potential claim according to the damages.

We provide services for both the claimant and company whereby for claimant our services starts from the date of termination, obtaining consent from the Ministry of Human Resources, filing of statement of case and hearing before the chairman of industrial court.

For company, our services range from the advice of the construction of collective agreement (CA), unions rights, companies rights, domestic inquiry and we also provide services of construction of employment Contract.

Apart from the regulations and compliances of the industry, we provide both dispute resolution and defence work for inefficiency treatment, misrepresentation, negligence, loss and injuries from consuming of the products andservices.

We provide a range of services from the preparation of wills to obtaining probate and letters of administration for the estate of a deceased person as well as resealing of foreign grants of representation. We are also able to assist in the transfer and transmission of property of the deceased person.

We provide will-writing services from simple to complex properties distribution of movable and immovable assets which include shares, stocks, fixed assets, vehicles, bank accounts, securities, personal belongings and pets. We also provide the services of executor, administrator and acting as custodian of the will.