Dispute Resolution

We assist companies and shareholders in navigating complex corporate and shareholder disputes, acting for both majority and minority stakeholders.

Our expertise includes advising on breaches of shareholder agreements, fiduciary duties and corporate governance maters, where we are actively engaged to provide strategic counsel, negotiate settlements, and represent clients in litigation.

• Acted for a company’s board of directors in successfully obtaining declarations to invalidate shareholders’ notices for an extraordinary general meeting aimed at effectively forcing a backdoor winding-up as well as consequential injunctive reliefs.
• Acted for a company’s board of directors in successfully obtaining a Pre-Action Discovery Order for disclosure of specified documents relating to an alleged friendly loan at 60% per annum taken during the tenure of the company’s previous board of directors.
• Acted for one of Malaysia’s largest medical laboratories in a joint venture partnership dispute that concerned allegations of fraud, misappropriation of monies, assets confidential information, business and clients. We successfully sought and obtained injunctive relief in the form of an Anton Piller Order for the disclosure and preservation of evidence, an injunction order to essentially stop unlawful usage of confidential information and infringement of intellectual property rights as well as a Mareva Order to freeze the assets of the partner and the alleged vehicles of fraud used in view of the risk of dissipation of assets.
• Acted for a director and majority shareholder of a prominent Malaysian holding company in a highly contentious dispute essentially for specific performance of an alleged contract for the sale of the client’s stake in the company for a contractual sum in excess of RM 150 million. The suit involved defending multiple urgent injunctive applications including two successive Mareva type freezing applications, disclosure applications and an interim preservation type injunction application.

We assist corporations and individuals in addressing fraud and asset recovery matters.

Some of our experiences include conducting comprehensive fraud investigations, tracing misappropriated assets across multiple jurisdictions, and implementing legal strategies to recover assets.

As part of the asset recovery process, we advise clients on obtaining freezing injunctions, disclosure orders, and other legal remedies to secure and reclaim assets effectively.

• Acting for foreign entities to recover monies fraudulently paid to imposters falsely claiming ties to a major glove manufacturer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assisted in obtaining Mareva and Proprietary Injunctions, along with Ancillary Disclosure Orders against the said imposters (see: Supermax Global Co Ltd & Anor v R Gopinathan Pillai a/l Raghavan Pillai & Ors [2022] MLJU 3468). Also subsequently obtained a ‘debarring order’ against the specified imposters to further defend the proceedings given their failure to comply with, amongst others, their disclosure obligations under a Court Order.
• Acting for one of the world’s largest bauxite deposits based in the Republic of Guinea and an entity based in Belgium for the recovery of monies fraudulently paid pursuant to a “push payment fraud” by imposters falsely purporting as the clients’ supplier.
• Acted for international clients named as Defendants in a litigation concerning a complex cross-jurisdictional claim for recovery of substantial sums of monies premised on amongst others, the tort of conversion, fraud, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary duties (See: Petrochemical Commercial Company International Ltd & Ors V Nexus Management Group Sdn Bhd & Ors [2020] MLJU 2649).
• Acting for an entity incorporated to hold and protect the land rights of former settlors of a large settlement, who had previously been alienated land rights by the State Government. The suit involved a fraud and conspiracy claim which sought to impugn a purported sale of the entire land rights for a sum of approximately RM 86 million to a developer, which were allegedly sanctioned by the previous board of directors and were carried out at significantly unfavourable terms and without due process.

We assist individuals and organizations in defamation matters, acting for both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving libel and slander.

Our experience encompasses advising clients on the legal framework of defamation, assessing the merits of potential claims or defences, and strategizing effective approaches to protect or restore reputations.

• Acted for a senior Malaysian statesman in defamation proceedings commenced by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, in respect of statements made concerning a complex waiver and debt restructuring scheme.
• Acted for a prominent ex-chairman of a major statutory body in defamation proceedings concerning defamatory statements made in respect of alleged fraudulent conduct by a development company over the transfer of project lands worth approximately RM 100 million which was owned by the statutory body.
• Acting for a member of parliament against an elected Member of a State Legislative Assembly from an opposing political party concerning statements made pertaining to, amongst others, issues of religion.