
At the Conference On Legal Risks And Countermeasures Of International Investment And Trade at Friendship Palace in Beijing, China on 27 August 2018, I spoke about “Malaysia as A Principal Hub For Chinese Investments In ASEAN” and made the following points:
(1) our New Malaysian government’s support for China’s Belt And Road Initiative, the 2000 years of warm bilateral trading and cultural relationship between Malaysia and China and our continued welcome for Chinese enterprises to invest in Malaysia;
(2) Malaysia’s tax and Principal Hub incentives for foreign companies operating from Malaysia as a launch pad for expansion in ASEAN;
(3) Malaysia’s decades of experience as manufacturing hub with excellent industrial parks, factories, roads, rail, port and other transportation and logistics network with capacity to absorb the migration of trade war supply chain refugees from China;
(4) Malaysia’s strengths in political stability, supportive government policies and bilingual English Chinese speaking population etc where Chinese and other foreign companies can operate successfully;
(5) Malaysia government’s joint venture with Alibaba to launch the world’s first Digital Free Trade Zone and eHub and operate an ecommerce logistics centre in Malaysia to tap the digital economy future of Asia;
(6) the importance of adequate preparation, risk assessment / risk mitigation and legal compliance of Chinese companies before venturing abroad.
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I am the senior partner of Messrs Jeff Leong, Poon & Wong, Malaysia.
I am also serving with the Law Association For Asia And The Pacific (LAWASIA), the peak body for national bar associations and law societies in more than 40 jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region as Chair of the Corporate, Securities & Investment Law and Co Chair of the Belt And Road Initiative Standing Committees.
I lead a Special Projects team, structure and run complex M&A deals, resolve critical problems faced by clients such as crisis management, regulatory investigations, shareholder fights and board tussles and advise founders, business owners and senior management on business transactions.
With numerous IPOs and M&A deals over 30 years, I am often consulted by clients in Shipping and Logistics, Technology and Digital Economy, Oil & Gas and other heavily regulated industries on complex, urgent and critical matters.
I have been included on Asia Business Law Journal’s A List of Malaysia’s Top 100 Lawyers and Legal 500’s Hall of Fame for Corporate and M&A for Malaysia.
I am an accredited Mediator of the Malaysian Mediation Centre, the International Commercial Mediation Centre For the Belt And Road Initiative, Benchmark Chambers International & Benchmark International Mediation Centre, Shenzhen Qianhai International Commercial Mediation Centre, CCPIT/CCOIC Hangzhou Mediation Centre and Hainan International Arbitration Court.
I founded JLPW in 1999 during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis with 2 other founders. We were deep into corporate rescues and mergers of banks, insurance companies and stockbrokers to resuscitate the bleeding Malaysian economy, working on some of the major corporate rescues of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.
Affiliations with Deacons Graham & James 2001- 2012 and Dacheng (now Dentons China) 2012-2016 quickly followed. In 2012, we founded JLPW CROSSBORDER ASIA, a regional law firm network.
In JLPW, we developed the current due diligence system adopted and used by industry participants in capital markets transactions in 1999. I assisted the review of the 2020 Due Diligence Guide for Malaysia with investment bankers, accountants, capital market lawyers and other industry participants.
I currently lead our Japan Services Group, assisting Japanese companies venturing into Malaysia and South East Asia with market entry strategies, M&As and post merger integration advisory together with our Japanese speaking team.
I am also leading our China Services Group and regional JLPW Belt and Road Services Group assisting Chinese companies investing and undertaking Belt and Road projects in Malaysia and other ASEAN countries.
As leader, strategist, chief talent scout, builder and problem solver, I have initiated and developed various practice groups in JLPW and am now leading our Legal Tech initiatives to better support our clients in the new Digital Economy.
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