{"id":3701,"date":"2016-10-18T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2017-06-16T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T07:14:23","slug":"international-malaysia-law-conference-imlc-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/news\/international-malaysia-law-conference-imlc-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"International Malaysia Law Conference (IMLC) 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3701 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/news\/international-malaysia-law-conference-imlc-2016\/attachment\/imlc-photo-5\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMLC-Photo-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3726\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3726'>\n\t\t\t\t(From left) Mr Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor, Mr Lau Kee Sern, Mr Ong Hock An and Mr Ivan Ho Yue Chan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A flagship event of the Malaysian Bar \u2014 the International Malaysia Law Conference (IMLC) 2016 was held from the 21st\u201423rd September 2016 at The Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur. The President of the Malaysian Bar and a Partner of the firm, Mr <a href=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/lawyers\/partners\/steven-thiruneelakandan\/\">Steven Thiru<\/a>\u00a0gave the welcome note for the IMLC 2016 with its theme \u201cChallenges of an ASEAN Community: Rule of Law, Business, and Being People-Oriented\u201d. Several of our partners were actively involved in this year\u2019s IMLC: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plenary Session 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr <a href=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/lawyers\/partners\/ho-yue-chan-ivan\/\">Ivan Ho<\/a> along with Mr Ong Hock An, Partner and Head of Insolvency Practice in BDO\u00a0spoke on the topic of \u201cCompanies Act 2016\u201d, highlighting the key areas of changes introduced under the recently passed Companies Bill 2015. Special focus was placed on Corporate Voluntary Arrangement and Judicial Management with a comparative analysis of these remedies which are available in the United Kingdom and Singapore respectively. The session was moderated by Mr Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor, Treasurer for the Malaysian Bar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breakout Session 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr <a href=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/lawyers\/partners\/jalalullail-othman\/\">Jal Othman<\/a> spoke in the Breakout Session on Business Law which explored the topic of \u201cASEAN Integration: Creating Islamic Finance Opportunities\u201d and discussed at length, the question of whether the legal community is prepared for Syariah-compliant financial services of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flagship event of the Malaysian Bar \u2014 the International Malaysia Law Conference (IMLC) 2016 was held from the 21st\u201423rd September 2016 at The Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur. The President of the Malaysian Bar and a Partner of the firm, Mr Steven Thiru\u00a0gave the welcome note for the IMLC 2016 with its theme \u201cChallenges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}