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Shook Lin & Bok has a long-standing relationship with the regulatory bodies to develop and promote the relevant industry and sector. On 24 February 2016, Bursa Malaysia Berhad hosted a Dialogue Session with PLC whereby Mr Jalalullail Othman, Head of our Islamic Finance Department moderated an interactive dialogue session between regulators and industry players (PLC) […]

On 12 October 2016, the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) hosted a one-day Conference themed as “Companies Bill 2015: Modernising Corporate Insolvency Framework in Malaysia” at Sunway Putra Hotel. The conference brought together SSM and insolvency and legal practitioners from Malaysia and Singapore in an opportune event to exchange knowledge and promote a better understanding […]

Our partner, Mr Sudharsanan Thillainathan presented on the topic of “Confidentiality v. Transparency (Tensions Within International Arbitration?)” at the international forum entitled “The Belt and Road Initiative: will it change arbitration and ADR?” held on the 9 September 2016 at the V-Continent Beijing Wuzhou Hotel, Beijing. The forum was organised by the Chartered Institute of […]

On 26 July 2016, the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) hosted its annual National Industrial Relations Conference. Keynote speech and opening of the conference was by YB Dato’ Mohd Sahar bin Darusman, Deputy Secretary General (Policy & Internal) of the Ministry of Human Resources (MoHR). Conference delegates heard from Chairpersons of the Industrial Court, representatives of […]

On 19 May 2016, the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb) hosted its 3rd Annual Law Review. The Annual Law Review this year was extended to a half-day event which featured leading practitioners, including the firm’s Mr. Lam Ko Luen (Immediate Past President MIArb) and Mr. Sudharsanan Thillainathan (Deputy President, MIArb), who led in-depth discussions on […]

During the recently concluded National Credit Conference in Kuala Lumpur, the conference delegates heard from representatives from credit management bureaus, lawyers, policy makers, technology experts and industry consultants on, amongst other things, the challenges that the credit industry is currently facing as well as developments in the law that impact on credit management. One of the […]

Our Mr. Lam Ko Luen co-presented a talk entitled “Finality to Awards of an International Arbitration seated in Malaysia – Arbitrators Beware!” on 19 April 2016. His co-presenter was Mr. Ooi Huey Miin of Messrs. Raja, Darryl & Loh. The talk was jointly held by the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb) and the Kuala Lumpur […]

Our Karen Kaur was a panel speaker at a session entitled “Funds Offering in Asia and Passporting of Prospectuses Approved by Authorities in One Country by Another Country” at the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Conference held in Kuala Lumpur in April 2016. In addition to Karen, the panel comprised lawyers from Hong Kong (Ms. Vivien […]

During the recent Inter-Pacific Bar Association 26th Annual Meeting and Conference in Kuala Lumpur which was held from 13 – 16th April, 2016, Michael Soo, Head of our Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Licensing department and Riccardo G. Cajola (Cajola & Associati, Italy), moderated a session entitled, “How to Manage Multi-Jurisdictional Trademark Disputes in the […]

As a part of our internal continuing legal education initiative, we were honoured to have Professor Khawar Qureshi QC, the author of the Legal Handbook on “Public International Law before the English Courts”, present a talk on the same subject to our lawyers on 18 April 2016.