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Mr. Lam Ko Luen, Senior Partner of Shook Lin & Bok was invited to be a panelist at the Construction Law Conference on “The Construction Arbitration Landscape in Malaysia“. The other panelist were Datuk Professor Dr. Sundra Rajoo, Mr. Rajendra Navaratnam and Mr. Chang Wei Mun. The session was moderated by Dato’ Mary Lim JCA. […]

UNITAR recently organised a Tea Talk session entitled Riding the Wave of Fintech and Big Data Analytics: Creating Value for Islamic Finance. The panelist included YBhg. Datuk Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar (CEO of Amanie Advisors Sdn Bhd); Khairul Nizam (CEO of Finance Accreditation Agency); and Ms. Shahreen Shafiza (Former CEO TalentCorp Malaysia). The session was […]

Our partner, Dr. Syed Adam Alhabshi, who is from the Islamic Finance Practice Group recently trained Assistant Branch Managers from Agro Bank branches around Malaysia in preparation for their Intermediate Qualification of Islamic Finance (IQIF) – Legal Documentation for Islamic Financing Facilities Course. The IQIF is part of the Islamic Banking & Finance Institute Malaysia […]

Our partner, Tan Gian Chung, who is also the Deputy Head of the Technology, Multimedia & Telecommunications (TMT) Law department, conducted a 60 minute talk on 18 July 2018 titled An Overview of Fintech, in which he covered topics such as blockchain, crowdfunding, digital banks, insurtech, wealthtech and regtech, current regulation as well as some […]

Shook Lin & Bok was invited to share our knowledge with the International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA) on 10 July 2018. The half day session entitled ‘Hard Talk on Shariah and Common Law: Islamic Finance Documentation Perspective’ was attended by Shariah researchers from ISRA. Mr Jal Othman, Head of the Firm’s Islamic […]

Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific 2018, a guide to the region’s leading litigation firms and lawyers has just been released. Shook Lin and Bok is pleased to have been recognised in two categories namely Commercial and Transactions and, Labour and Employment. Two of our partners have also been recognised by the publication; Lam Ko Luen – […]

As Shook Lin & Bok comes close to our 100th anniversary, Asian-mena Counsel’s Patrick Dransfield interviewed our managing partner, Mr Nagarajah Muttiah and put to him a series of questions on behalf of the In-House Community. Click on the link below to read the full interview: https://www.inhousecommunity.com/article/thing-nagarajah-muttiah/

Shook Lin & Bok has been invited to share our knowledge on several topics during Genting Group’s Legal Awareness Programme for 2017 at Resorts World Genting on August 9, 2017. The session, attended by personnel from the Group’s middle and senior management, discussed topics that covers both the litigation and commercial aspects of the law. […]

The Firm congratulates Mr Sudharsanan Thillainathan and Mr Gregory Das on their election as the President and the Vice President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb) respectively for the term 2017/2019. MIArb announced the election of new Office Bearers and Ordinary Council Members during its 25th Annual General Meeting held on June 14, 2017. […]

Ms Victoria Loi, a Partner of the Firm was a co-speaker at a seminar on “An Introduction to Arbitration” on 26 May 2017. The other co-speakers were Kevin Prakash and Karen Ng Gek Suan. The seminar was organised by the Professional Development Committee of the Kuala Lumpur Bar, in collaboration with the Malaysian Institute of […]