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"Innovative legal services to a wide range of clientele"
Our services at hky cover a vast spectrum of industries. Our clients include individuals, small scaled family owned businesses, privately owned companies and public listed companies, both domestic and international.
innovative legal services.
innovative legal services.
Our practice includes a wide range of disciplines, our lawyers having experience in litigation and corporate work involving, amongst others, commercial, insolvency, corporate restructuring, schemes of arrangement, information technology, joint ventures, sale and purchase of shares and assets, receivership and construction. Each matter is given individual and unique attention. Solutions are client-oriented, and are customized for each individual client and matter, both contentious and non-contentious.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
At hky, our essential sustaining element is litigation We are an exception to the myth that lawyers who fight matters in court are hostile and unapproachable. Far from that, we communicate effectively and we strive to be persuasive. The better we are to listen, engage and respond constructively, the more likely we are to apprehend and resolve conflict.
Corporate
As a natural consequence of having seen the many badly drafted contracts and agreements that become the subject matter of dispute in court, we learn quickly to adopt a discerning approach when we craft and review contracts and other legal documentations. Ultimately, it takes a litigator to spot the fine print in a commercial contract.
Charlie Munger once said that in the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you have just described hell. Here at hky, while we can’t quite assist with the analysts and horse sense, we can certainly help ease your hell with the due diligence exercises.
Areas of Practice
- Administrative Law
- Admiralty
- Capital Reduction and Consolidation
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Company Law, Director and Shareholder Disputes
- Construction Adjudication and Litigation
- Consumer Protection Disputes
- Contractual Disputes
- Corporate Insolvency and Liquidation
- Debt Recovery
- Defamation
- Employment
- Fraud (Civil and Commercial) and Asset Recovery
- Insurance Disputes
- Judicial Management and Corporate Restructuring
- Personal Data Protection
- Pre-emptive Litigation
- Probate and Estate Administration
- Public Interest Litigation
- Receivership
- Strata Management Issues and Disputes
- Tortious Disputes
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areas of practice areas of practice
Industries
- Agriculture
- Aquaculture
- Computer & Information Technology
- Construction
- Digital Infrastructure & Data
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Finance, Investment & Asset Management
- Food Industry
- Hospitality
- Industrial & Manufacturing
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Oil & Gas, & Energy
- Pharmaceutical
- Real Estate – Commercial, Residential & Retail Land Development
- Technology & Telecommunications
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Highlights
Corporate/Commercial Disputes
- Acted in numerous director/shareholder disputes involving companies listed in the Malaysian Stock Exchange.
- Acted for a party defending a claim involving an asset recovery exercise based on allegations of international fraud and money laundering.
- Acted for an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in defending a claim on a breach of trust.
- Acted for a major insurance company in resisting a claim on a collapse of a building, making way for a prospective change in the law on the interpretation of specific terminologies used in the industry.
- Acted for a property developer in resisting and setting aside a pre-emptive freezing order and in defending a claim for specific performance and the recovery of damages for late delivery of properties.
- Acted for parties pursuing and resisting claims involving asset tracing and recovery based on allegations of international fraud, money laundering and cargo theft.
Administrative Law
- Acted for a celebrated remisier in a judicial review of reprimands imposed by the Malaysian Stock Exchange.
- Acted for an officer of a telecommunications company in a judicial review who was unceremoniously dismissed from his position in office.
- Acted for purchasers of a high-rise apartment in the capital city in a judicial review of decisions of the DBKL affecting its development.
Public Interest Litigation
- Acted for several prominent opposition leaders involving unlawful arrest/detention and defamation by the police, resulting in a landmark award of damages paid by the Government of Malaysia.
- Acted for Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) in a major defamation lawsuit against the New Straits Times, resulting in the subsequent release of a public apology in the national daily itself.
- Acted for a prominent opposition leader in a defamation lawsuit instituted by FELDA.
- Acted for the family of a government officer who died while in the custody of the MACC.