Chooi & Company — Malaysia

Alexie Ng Ying Ching

Alexie’s primary focus is in the area of commercial and corporate litigation. She has experience in matters involving administrative law, disciplinary proceedings, corporate restructuring and insolvency, company law, contractual and business disputes, breach of confidentiality and land related matters. She is also trained in IP litigation and disputes, enforcement and trademark prosecution matters. · Litigation

Calvin Wong Wai Hou

Calvin practices in the fields of corporate and commercial litigation, arbitration, and administrative law. He regularly represents clients as counsel and junior counsel at all-tiers of Malaysian courts for contentious matters of various kinds including shareholders’ disputes, corporate fraud, contravention of securities law regulating the capital markets, breach of contract and judicial review. · Litigation

Chooi Mun Sou

Mun Sou founded Chooi & Company in December 1962. He has built up extensive experience of a wide range of commercial and corporate transactions, including cross-border transactions, project financing, schemes of arrangement, foreign investments, joint ventures, offers to the public, mergers and acquisitions, property law, building and development, and sales and leases. · Corporate / M&A

Christopher Leong

Christopher has extensive experience in the fields of corporate and commercial litigation, shareholders’ disputes, banking litigation and insolvency. He is well-versed with issues that customarily arise in litigation with cross-border elements. Additionally, he practices in the area of constitutional and administrative law, and public interest litigation. Christopher also acts as counsel in domestic and international arbitrations, both in Malaysia and overseas. He is empanelled as an arbitrator with the Asian International Arbitration Centre. · Litigation

Ira Biswas

Ira Biswas was called to the Bar of England & Wales in July 1986 and was admitted as an advocate & solicitor of the High Court in Malaya in July 1987. Ira joined the firm as a legal assistant in 1987 and was made a partner in 1992. Ira has extensive experience in a wide spectrum of commercial and civil litigation cases. Her key areas of practice are in insolvency law, commercial frauds and banking litigation. She has dealt with clientele in many different industries and is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer. · Dispute Resolution

Janet Chai

Janet’s key area of practice is in commercial disputes, dealing with a wide range of issues ranging from contractual disputes involving conspiracy and fraud issues, enforcement of securities and company law related issues to land disputes. Janet also deals with energy, construction and engineering disputes, and has been an accredited adjudicator with the Asian International Arbitration Centre since 2014. · Dispute Resolution

Jimmy Ng Chwe Hwa

Jimmy has more than 20 years of experience in restructuring and insolvency work with KPMG, an international accounting firm. He retired as a partner of KPMG Malaysia in 2015. Following his retirement, he was invited by the Hong Kong & Singapore leadership of KPMG to help develop a restructuring practice in Jakarta, Indonesia. Having developed the foundation for the restructuring practice, he retired as a partner of KPMG Singapore & Indonesia in 2017. Jimmy joined the firm as a partner in September 2018. His key practice area is in restructuring and insolvency. · Restructuring & Insolvency

Karen Cheah Yee Lynn

Karen’s practice areas include banking and finance, mergers & acquisition, corporate & commercial, real estate, aircraft financing, and regulatory compliance. Her extensive experience in contentious matters adds to her abilities in her corporate and commercial practice. · Banking & Finance

Kenson Ong Poh Hong

Kenson specialises in employment and industrial relations law. He regularly handles matters relating to employment contracts, employee benefits and compensation, dismissal or retrenchment and the employment aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructuring exercises. Additionally, he also advises on anti-bribery compliance, personal data protection, trade unions, occupational safety and health, as well as work passes and immigration related matters. In terms of dispute resolution, he regularly represents clients in employment disputes across various tribunals and courts, ranging from the labour courts to the civil courts. He also has experience in advising and representing both individuals and corporations in complex employment disputes involving senior executives and significant financial implications. · Employment & Industrial Relations

Koay Shiau Ven

Shiau Ven became a partner of the firm in 2018. She focuses on corporate and commercial law, real estate, banking and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property. She has advised on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholders agreements, intellectual property and information technology related agreements. She has extensive experience in real estate transactions from advisory, sales and purchases, corporate banking and housing loan transactions to development projects. · Corporate / M&A

Leong Wei Chung

Wei Chung’s expertise is in the practice area of corporate and securities law where he is involved in advising on capital market transactions and related corporate finance work, cross border mergers and acquisitions as well as general corporate advisory works. He was also actively involved in corporate and commercial litigation in his early years of practice. During his years of professional practice, he has extensive experience in advising both local and foreign clients in corporate exercises and transactions including initial public offerings in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Cambodia, mergers and acquisitions transactions, takeovers and privatisations, legal due diligence exercises, and general corporate advisory works. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific highlighted that Wei Chung is one of the key lawyers in the area of Capital Markets. His recent notable experience, amongst others, is as follows: an initial public offering undertaken by a group of companies (local and foreign) on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia raising approximately RM1 billion; an initial public offering undertaken by a group of companies on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia raising approximately RM72 million; an initial public offering undertaken by a group of companies (local and foreign) on the Catalist Board of Singapore Exchange (SGX) raising approximately SGD10 million; an acquisition by a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Malaysian public listed company of approximately 25% equity interest in a group of local companies for a consideration of approximately RM143 million followed by a mandatory take-over transaction; an acquisition by a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Malaysian public listed company of the entire equity interest in a group of local companies for a consideration of RM80 million; and a privatisation corporate exercise by way of capital reduction and repayment pursuant to Section 116 of the Companies Act 2016 undertaken by a Malaysian public listed company. · Corporate / M&A

Lim Tsu Qi

Tsu Qi’s primary practice areas are corporate and commercial, and mergers and acquisitions. She also has experience in real estate, data privacy and regulatory compliance matters. Tsu Qi started her legal career in a corporate firm whereby she was exposed to numerous corporate dealings. She has extensive experience in merger and acquisition transactions, joint venture, legal due diligence exercises, advisory on regulatory compliance and real property transactions. She has acted and advised numerous foreign and international companies in their complex cross border transactions. In addition, she also focuses on industries such as logistics, courier services, manufacturing, telecommunications and pharmaceutical. · Corporate / M&A

Lim Tuck Sun

Tuck Sun’s primary focus is in the area of commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration. He advises clients on shareholders’ disputes and company law related issues, including cross-border disputes. He also advises on competition law, defamation law, IT-related contracts, and telecommunications matters, and handles related litigation. Tuck Sun is also empanelled as an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Asian International Arbitration Centre. · Litigation

Nicole Fiona Wee Sue-Ren

Nicole Wee was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1995 and she was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1996. Nicole joined the firm as a legal assistant in 1996, and was made senior associate in 2000. In 2003, she was made a partner of the firm. Nicole leads the firm’s family and probate practice, and advises on family and matrimonial disputes including all aspects of contested divorces jurisdictional and cross-border financial issues and resolution by mediation. She also advises on succession planning and wealth management including wills and trusts, and handles contentious probate and trust matters, and disputes regarding the administration of estates as well as estate and trust assets situated locally and abroad. Nicole is also an experienced commercial litigator, with particular emphasis on banking litigation, commercial debt recovery and insolvency. Her experience in this area has led to her being retained to advise on the acquisition of distressed-debt and non-performing loan portfolios. · Family / Matrimonial

Shamala Devi Balasundaram

Shamala Balasundaram was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2004. She is a partner of the firm and deals with corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration matters, including those involving shareholder disputes, complex commercial issues, insolvency, land related disputes, and fraud. She also handles cases involving administrative law and constitutional law. Shamala appears frequently before the High Court and Appellate Courts, and is an experienced trial lawyer. · Litigation

Yap Yeong Hui

Prior to joining Chooi & Company, Yeong Hui was a Partner of another large firm in Malaysia. Before that he practised law in the Singapore office of a global law firm and prior to that he was with one of Singapore’s largest law firms. Yeong Hui deals with all areas of employment and industrial relations law, including the employment aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructuring exercises, as well as internal investigations, personal data protection, occupational health & safety and compliance matters. He also deals with shipping and commodities-related disputes, including disputes relating to charter-parties and bills of lading, marine insurance, shipping casualties, international sale of goods and international commodity and handles related arbitration matters. · Employment