People – Ghani & Co. Partners https://www.ghaniandpartners.com Kuala Lumpur Law Firm Wed, 30 Nov 2022 04:55:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/i0.wp.com/www.ghaniandpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ASL-Logo.png?fit=16%2C16&ssl=1 People – Ghani & Co. Partners https://www.ghaniandpartners.com 32 32 212893055 Kelvin Kwan https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/kelvin-kwan/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:31:37 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2550

Kelvin Kwan

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Role

Kelvin oversees the computer system operations of the firm. His primary responsibilities revolve around monitoring the performance of all software and hardware, installing servers, configuring systems, and ensuring all technical aspects are running smoothly.

Experience

Kelvin has been in the IT field for almost 22 years, and has managed IT infrastructure on premise as well as at a data centre prior to joining the firm in 2019.

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Kenny Chow https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/kenny-chow/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:25:23 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2548

Kenny Chow

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Role

Kenny is responsible for overseeing the firm’s internal IT operations, ensuring that they run effectively and smoothly. He leads a team of IT staff, and advises on and determines the business IT requirements of the firm. He is also responsible for planning the IT systems budget and ensuring that the firm is protected from cybersecurity risks.

Experience

Kenny has more than 10 years’ experience in the IT sector and has worked for multinational corporations in sectors such as property development and manufacturing prior to joining the firm in 2018.

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Leow Yoke Fung https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/leow-yoke-fung/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:24:28 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2546

Leow Yoke Fung

Leow Yoke Fung

Role

Yoke Fung manages all the firm’s office functions and maintains office services by organising procedures, personnel and operations including overseeing clerical procedures and office supply requisitions. She reports directly to our Chief Operating Officer and assists her in liaising with the Bar Council particularly in relation to the renewal of practicing certificates for our lawyers.

Experience

Yoke Fung has been assisting the firm’s Partner in Charge of Administration in all administrative matters since 2005, and was promoted in 2014 to the role of Office Manager and was redesignated as Head of Administration in 2021. She has more than 18 years’ work experience in office administration, supplier negotiation, training admin personnel, recruitment, HR management, and team management.

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Yap Kah Lon https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/yap-kah-lon/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:19:16 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2543

Yap Kah Lon

Yap Kah Lon

Role

Yap manages and monitors the day-to-day financial operations of the firm including preparation of the financial reports, expenditure budgets and other accounting reports. He also oversees the accounting and data integrity in the reporting systems of the firm and ensures the procedures and reporting are carried out in accordance with generally accepted accounting policies and regulatory requirements.

Experience

He has more than 20 years’ experience in finance and accounting. As an accounts graduate, he worked for several companies in the retail, construction, and property development sectors, prior to joining the firm in 2010.

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Madam Yee https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/madam-yee/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:17:34 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2540

Madam Yee

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Role

Madam Yee oversees the operations of the firm’s Finance Department and primarily oversees the Clients Accounts of the firm. In her role, she liaises with the clients and bankers of the firm in connection with the firm’s financial transactions.

Experience

Madam Yee is an experienced accounts staff, and was an accounts executive in a well-known housing development company prior to joining the firm in 1991.

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Debbie Choa https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/debbie-choa/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:15:41 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2537

Debbie Choa

Debbie Choa

Role

Debbie oversees all the administrative and management functions of the firm, including our financial, operational and IT requirements. She also acts as the firm’s liaison with the Bar Council and with firms whom we have an affiliation or an alliance with. Debbie also focuses on exploring ways to enhance the practice of the firm including enhancing our efficiency and overall capability and formulating our business strategies.

Experience

Debbie was a practicing solicitor for almost 20 years and was a partner with a well-known commercial law firm for 13 years. In 2015, she co-founded, and became the chief operating officer of, Projek57 – an award-winning accredited social enterprise, focused on nation building. She has been our chief operating officer since April 2022.

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Dato’ Low Chee Choon https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/dato-low-chee-choon/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:09:07 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2526

Dato’ Low Chee Choon

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Dato’ Low Chee Choon was admitted to the Bar of England & Wales (Inner Temple) in 1969 and was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1972. He has been recognised as a leading individual in Malaysia in the area of Banking and Finance by The Legal 500.

Dato’ Low started his legal career as a legal assistant with Messrs Ariffin & Ooi from 1972 to 1974 and was a partner there from 1974 to 1975. He is a founding partner of our firm.

Dato’ Low’s vast amount of experience includes finance work such as syndications, project financing, capital market financing, structured financing, cross-border financing, financial leasing, Islamic financing, corporate work such as privatisations, restructuring, schemes of arrangements and joint ventures and asset swaps. He has been a consultant to our firm since 2015 and remains much sought after for his technical knowledge, skill and experience.

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Sundra Moorthi https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/sundra-moorthi/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:08:51 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2525

Sundra Moorthi

Sundra Moorthi

Sundra Moorthi was admitted to the Bar of England & Wales (Gray’s Inn) in 1969 and was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1971.

Sundra started his legal career as a legal assistant with Messrs. Lee Boon Peng & Co. from 1971 to 1972. He later joined the firm of Messrs. Ariffin & Ooi as a legal assistant from 1972 to 1974 and was a partner there from 1974 to 1975. He is a founding partner of our firm.

Sundra has a vast amount of experience in corporate arrangements and structuring (including mergers, acquisitions and restructuring), infrastructure and privatisation projects, international and domestic joint ventures, establishment and setting up of companies and banks and stock exchange listings. He has been a practising solicitor for more than 50 years. He has been a valuable consultant to our firm since 2015, and continues to provide us the benefit of his experience, acumen and broad client base.

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Adrian Chair https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/adrian-chair/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:41:10 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=2506

Key Practice Areas:

Adrian advises on landmark projects and iconic developments, project financing (including Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing), mergers and acquisitions, energy, infrastructure and utilities, technology and telecommunications, corporate and commercial matters and private equity.

He has broad experience and depth in many sectors, having advised on and led many headlining transactions and industry firsts. His experience spans many industries including energy and utility work, infrastructure, oil & gas, petro-chemicals, telecommunications, rail, aviation, media, theme parks, satellite, financial services, insurance, bank capital, capital markets (including Rule 144A / Regulation S offerings), derivatives and structured products, catalytic developments, logistics, healthcare, education, technology, mining, and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) work, and has often led on complex cross border transactions involving multiple jurisdictions. He is recommended as a leading lawyer in a number of legal publications.

Qualifications

  • LL.B. (Hons) – University of Leicester, 1995 under scholarship as a recipient of the British High Commissioner’s Chevening Awards and a recipient of Harvey Ingram Awards for top marks in Company Law and European Union Law
  • Barrister-at-law of Gray’s Inn, 1996

Admissions

  • Bar of England and Wales (1996)
  • Malaysian Bar (1997)

Languages

  • English
  • Bahasa Malaysia
  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese

Accolades

  • Highly Regarded Leading Lawyer in 2020, IFLR 1000
  • Distinguished Practitioner in Corporate and M&A 2020, Asialaw
  • Ranked in Projects, Infrastructure & Energy, Chambers and Partners
  • Recognised by Asia Business Law Journal as one of Malaysia’s Top 100 Lawyers 2020

Market Leading Experience

Energy, Infrastructure & Construction

  • Advising on the USD2.13 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets in Malaysia, Malaysia’s largest ever upstream transaction and the largest upstream transaction in South East Asia in the past 5 years.
  • Advising on the development of a 100MW large scale solar photovoltaic plants under the third Large Scale Solar tender exercise successfully awarded by the Energy Commission.
  • Advising on the acquisition of equity interests in three Feed-in Approval Holders which own and operate four solar projects in Selangor, Malaysia at KLIA and its vicinity.
  • Advising the project developer on the establishment and development of LEGOLAND Malaysia, Malaysia’s first themed attraction of international acclaim.
  • Advising on a large cross border rail project between Malaysia and a neighbouring country.
  • Advising the project developer on the establishment of Marlborough College Malaysia.
  • Advising on various power projects with independent power producers.
  • Advising on the MYR4.2 billion divestment of a 2420MW power station, the pioneering coal plant and largest multi fuel integrated generating facility to a special purpose vehicle.

Corporate & Commercial

  • Advising QL and Maxincome Resources Sdn Bhd (the master franchisee) in the franchise arrangement with Japan’s FamilyMart Co., Ltd to bring the world’s second largest convenience-store chain into Malaysia.
  • Advising on a joint venture to develop iconic developments in Singapore and Malaysia with a gross development value of USD10 billion, which won SE Asia M&A Deal of the Year awarded by an international publication.
  • Advising on the sale of a significant stake in a master developer with a total acreage of more than 2,000 acres to an international conglomerate and related shareholding arrangement.
  • Advising on the strategic business alliance between two large telecommunications companies, recognised as the Best M&A deal in Malaysia by a financial publication.

Telecommunications, Multimedia & Technology

  • Advising a leading telecommunications network provider on the joint development and sharing of fibre infrastructure between the top three mobile cellular network providers in Malaysia.
  • Advising on the spectrum allocation, spectrum assignment and apparatus assignment regime in Malaysia, including allocation and transfer of spectrum bands.
  • Advising on various corporate-commercial arrangements, the provision of advisory services on the various aspects of the communications network system and the procurement and maintenance of network infrastructure including contractual framework in respect of 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE) and preliminary discussions of 5G procurement with equipment and network vendors (including engagements with Chinese counterparties such as Huawei and ZTE) and in the of the key area of vendor financing and other financing arrangements.

Project Finance

  • Advising on the project finance of a petrochemicals storage facility, awarded Petchem Deal of the Year and Asia Pacific Downstream Oil & Gas Award by an international publication.
  • Advising on the syndicated financing undertaken by one of the largest polyolefins producers in South East Asia, awarded Best Project Finance Deal by an international publication.

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Loo Sim Yi https://www.ghaniandpartners.com/people/loo-sim-yi/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:33:42 +0000 http://ghaniandpartners.com/?post_type=people&p=1698

Key Practice Areas:

Sim Yi’s practise areas include corporate real estate, civil aviation and corporate banking.

Sim Yi is actively involved in the acquisition and disposal of various types of real property, leases and tenancies, joint venture arrangement involving real property, property development and sale and purchase of shares in real property companies where she advises listed companies, developers, real estate investment trusts and foreign investors.

In respect of her civil aviation experience, she advises foreign financial institutions and owners/lessors of aircraft in aircraft financing and leasing transactions, including transactions which are structured through Labuan entities. She deals with the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia and the Labuan Financial Services Authority for regulatory matters in connection with the civil aviation work undertaken by her.

Sim Yi also advises local financial institutions for corporate banking matters and often acts as Malaysian counsel for foreign financial institutions.

Qualifications

  • LL.B. (Hons) – Northumbria University, United Kingdom
  • Certificate in Legal Practice

Admissions

  • Malaysian Bar (2013)

Languages

  • English
  • Bahasa Malaysia
  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese

Market Leading Experience

  • Advising on various real estate investment trusts and listed companies in their acquisition of properties (including shopping malls and officer towers) and conducted legal due diligence exercises in connection therewith and where applicable, assisting them in the corporate exercise for shareholders’ or unitholders’ approval.
  • Advising the first education and unlisted Islamic real estate investment trust in Malaysia in its maiden acquisition and leaseback of 2 schools in the Klang Valley to the value of approximately RM305 million.
  • Advising foreign investors in their acquisition of a five-star landmark hotel in the golden triangle of Kuala Lumpur for a consideration exceeding RM700 million and assisted with the transfer of all hotel land, property, assets, employees and businesses. 
  • Advising a Malaysian public listed company on a joint venture arrangement for a mixed development comprising of residential, commercial, retail units and a theatre on about 100 acres of land in Melaka, Malaysia with gross development value of about RM6 billion.
  • Advising a leading developer in Malaysia in connection with its development and sale of high-end corporate office suites and luxury residence suites in the golden triangle of Kuala Lumpur.
  • Advising a renowned foreign property development / investment company on the disposal of its interests in an office block in KL Sentral via a corporate exercise involving the restructuring of the Malaysian investment holding company.
  • Advising various aircraft owners and lessors on the sale and leaseback of aircraft and helicopters to be operated in Malaysia.
  • Advising foreign international counsels with the Malaysian security given in connection with the financing of Malaysian registered aircraft.

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