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Mr. Jalalullail Othman, Senior Partner of Shook Lin & Bok was invited to be a panelist at the CIBAFI & World Bank Conference on Corporate Governance in Islamic Financial Institutions. This theme for this year’s conference was “Overcoming Challenges and Implementing Best Practices”. The objective of the one day conference was to reinforce both CIBAFI […]

Dr. Syed Adam Alhabshi (CPIF), Partner at Shook Lin & Bok was invited to be a panelist for the Joint- Jawatankuasa Undang-Undang Syariah Majlis Peguam dan Jawatankuasa Perbankan Islam Majlis Peguam Forum entitled “Pengurusan Harta Hibah Amanah Hartanah dan Harta Alih dan Perbankan Islam: Amalan dan Dokumentasi.” This Forum was held to shed some light […]

Mr. Jalalullail Othman, Senior Partner of Shook Lin & Bok was invited to be a panelist at the recent 2nd International Sukuk Conference held at the Securities Commission in Kuala Lumpur. The event was jointly organised by the Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC) and Amanie Group. The two-day conference focused on sharing new perspective and […]

Shook Lin & Bok co-organised with the Legal Department of CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad a one day forum entitled “Legal Perspective of Restructuring & Rescheduling Islamic Finance Facilities” on 5 September 2018 at CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad. It was also a joint effort with ZICO Law and CSQ Law. Ms. Hoh Kiat Ching gave her […]

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/