{"id":3888,"date":"2017-01-03T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2017-06-23T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T07:55:51","slug":"announcement-of-new-managing-partner-and-deputy-managing-partner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/news\/announcement-of-new-managing-partner-and-deputy-managing-partner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5ba3\u5e03\u65b0\u7ba1\u7406\u5408\u4f19\u4eba\u53ca\u526f\u7ba1\u7406\u5408\u4f19\u4eba\uff08\u82f1\u6587\u7248\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New Managing Partner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2858\" src=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/partner_Nagarajah_Muttiah-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"partner_Nagarajah_Muttiah\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/lawyers\/partners\/nagarajah-muttiah\/\">Nagarajah Muttiah<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shook Lin &amp; Bok is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Nagarajah Muttiah as the new managing partner of the firm, effective 1st January 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Nagarajah who also heads the International and Domestic Arbitration Department, General &amp; Civil Litigation Department and Insurance &amp; Shipping Department has been with the firm since 1980, and has been recognised for his \u201cquality of opinion and responsiveness\u201d (Asialaw Profiles, 2015).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years in litigation practice, Nagarajah has advised clients in the capacities of private individuals and major corporations alike from tortuous claims such as defamation and air disaster claims to corporate matters involving shareholder disputes, cross-border disputes, corporate insolvency, dispute on the breach of trusts and tracing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He authored the Malaysian chapter to the 2nd Edition of William Tetley\u2019s Maritime Liens and Claims and was the founder and the immediate Past President of the Malaysian Maritime Law Association (MMLA). He is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New Deputy Managing Partner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2856\" src=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/partner_Michael_Soo-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"partner_Michael_Soo\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/lawyers\/partners\/michael-c-m-soo\/\">Michael\u00a0C. M. Soo<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Michael Soo, one of the country\u2019s top intellectual property lawyers and also the head of the firm\u2019s Intellectual Property, Information Technology &amp; Licensing Department is taking the helm as the new Deputy Managing Partner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highly acclaimed for his seniority and experience in the field of IP, Mr Soo is commended for \u201chis handling of particularly complex contentious matters\u201d (Chambers &amp; Partners, 2017) and has been named as a Leading Lawyer by Legal500 (2017) for his work in representing high-profile Malaysian and international clients in patent, trade mark and design rights disputes. Asialaw Profiles 2017 has recognised him as being \u201chighly regarded for his advice on all areas of IP law, with a focus on enforcement and civil litigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Soo was the past president of the Malaysia Intellectual Property Association (MIPA) and is currently the president of Asian Patent Attorneys Association, Malaysia Country Group, and a councillor of Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA). He was a member of the Copyright Law Review Ad-hoc Committee, under the Attorney General\u2019s Chambers, Malaysia, and is a member of the IP Committee of the Bar Council of Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Managing Partner Nagarajah Muttiah Shook Lin &amp; Bok is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Nagarajah Muttiah as the new managing partner of the firm, effective 1st January 2017. Mr Nagarajah who also heads the International and Domestic Arbitration Department, General &amp; Civil Litigation Department and Insurance &amp; Shipping Department has been with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/3888"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}