We have expertise in the following areas including the drafting of the “master standards” for financial institutions:

• Acquisition finance
• Asset-based lending / finance leasing
• Bridging finance
• Islamic finance (including bonds issuance and retail lending)
• Project finance
• Real estate finance (including retail lending)
• Securitisation
• Syndicated loans
• Trade finance
• Unit trusts

• Arbitration
• Commercial developments
• Industrial and plants developments
• Infrastructure projects
• Mining projects
• Residential developments
• Telecommunication projects
• Turnkey projects

We cover both debt and equity markets and have represented issuers and underwriters/managers in initial public offerings at Bursa Malaysia. Our scope of work includes advice, documentations, and legal due diligence.

Our expertise includes:

• Initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary and follow-on stock offerings
• Bonds issuance
• Islamic finance
• Private equity finance
• Private placements

• Various aspects of civil litigation

This is a diverse practice area and the following is a sample of the services that we offer;

• Distributorship, franchising & licensing
• Extraction agreements (e.g., timber)
• Insurance
• Sale of Goods
• Services

We deal with all land matters in Sarawak including the following:

• Commercial leases and tenancies (including offices, shopping malls)
• Development agreements for residential and commercial properties
• Sale and purchase of landed property
• Security documents upon land interests
• Strata-titled properties and management corporation
• Disputes arising regarding land matters including Native Customary Rights

• Incorporation of companies
• Corporate governance issues
• Equity offering in capital markets
• Joint venture and partnership agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Take-overs
• Legal due diligence

• Admiralty actions
• Contractual disputes
• Estate and probate disputes
• Industrial relations and labour law
• Intellectual property infringement
• Property and land disputes: including Native Customary Rights
• Recovery litigation: including debt collection, bankruptcy and insolvency, enforcement, foreclosure and execution
• Torts: full spectrum including negligence, libel & defamation, nuisance & statutory torts

Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Arbitration
• Mediation

• Probate and letters of administration: including tracing of assets in foreign jurisdictionsAdministration of Estates: including resealing of probates in foreign jurisdictions
• Wills drafting, updating and storage
• Inheritance disputes

• General Insurance
• Marine Insurance

• Registration of trade and service marks
• Franchising and licensing
• Infringement litigation

• Industrial court matters

• Privatisation and corporatisation of statutory bodies and governmental agencies (e.g. the ports of Sarawak and statutory bodies involved in plantation, waters, rivers and roads)
• Conducting feasibility studies for projects

• Corporate insolvency litigation on behalf of liquidators, receivers and managers
• Debt collection for banks and charge card companies including foreclosure, bankruptcy and execution proceedings

• Admiralty actions
• Marine Insurance
• Shipping matters

• le spectrum of torts