Amanda Given Yap WeiYen
Associate
Amanda Given is an Associate at Daniel & Wong, where she is a part of the firm’s Dispute Resolution department, specialising in corporate and commercial litigation.
With a primary focus on corporate and commercial litigation, she has experiences in contractual claims, contentious insolvency matters, defamation and contentious probate proceedings.
Amanda graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from University of London and obtained her Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) in 2022. She completed her pupillage at the firm under the tutelage of Daniel Albert and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2024.
Beyond litigation, Amanda has a keen interest in pro bono activities, having volunteered with Street Feeders of KL during her university days – an experience that deepened her commitment to justice and social responsibility.
Notable Experiences: –
- Assisted in acting for a senior Malaysian statesman in a defamation suit initiated by a former Prime Minister of Malaysia, concerning statements made in relation to a complex waiver and debt restructuring scheme.
- Assisting in representing 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.
- Assisted in acting for companies based in Thailand and Singapore in pursuing a civil fraud and conspiracy claim concerning a sham sale of nitrile examination gloves by an alleged representative of one of Malaysia’s largest glove manufacturers, including obtaining an urgent injunctive relief.
- Assisted in 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 client’s supplier.
- Assisted in acting for a co-executor and co-trustee in estate proceedings involving allegations of secret trust and gift based on a forged document pertaining to valuable jewelleries, forming party of an estate located locally and abroad (See: Ong Soo Kwee v Ong Soo Keok (As Executor and Trustee of the Estate of Loh Ah Moy @ Loh Siew Keng, deceased and represented by Ong Ghee Soon as Executor and Trustee of the Estate of Ong Soo Keok, deceased) & Ors [2025] MLJU 344).
- Assisted in acting for the liquidator of a solvent company in liquidation (“CIL”), with assets exceeding RM 500 million, where its liquidation was hampered by substantial cross-shareholdings with two other associated companies in liquidation. In contentious Court proceedings, we successfully assisted the CIL’s liquidator in structuring and implementing a distribution-in-specie scheme to resolve the cross-shareholding issues, which was accepted by the High Court and subsequently affirmed by the Court of Appeal (see: Zheng Yi Trading v Sing Lian Sdn Bhd & Ors [2022] MLJU 377). An application by a former liquidator for his remuneration, arising from the illegal sub-delegation of his liquidation duty in an associated company in liquidation was also successfully resisted.
