Limited Liability Law Partnerships (“LLLP”)

Speaker

Wong Tat Chung, Co-Chairperson, CCLC

Wong Tat Chung was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1986, and as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1988.  His fields of practice include corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets, and other corporate and commercial matters.  He has been involved in both domestic and cross-border transactions.  His experience and practice also include debt and equity securities offerings, corporate restructurings of insolvent companies, takeovers, initial public offerings, infrastructure, privatisations, and debt restructurings.  He is the Co-Chairperson of CCLC and chairs its various subcommittees.  He was one of the vice chairs of the Banking, Finance and Securities Committee of IPBA; a member of the Company Secretarial, Practice Sub-Committee; Accounting and Audit Sub-Committee; and the Insolvency Sub-Committee, all under the Corporate Practice Consultative Forum established by the Companies Commission of Malaysia (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia, “SSM”).  He is a member of the Curriculum Advisory Committee for the LLM (Applied Law) in Malaysian legal practice and the ASEAN+6 Legal Practice at the College of Law, Sydney.

Irene Yong, Partner, Shearn Delamore & Co

Irene practices in all aspects of tax and revenue law advisory, structuring, planning, audits, investigations, dispute resolution (including advising taxpayers on the settlement of tax cases or in dealings with governmental authorities) and litigation (including tax appeals, declaratory proceedings, judicial review applications, civil suits, windings up etc), sales tax, service tax, goods and services tax (“GST”), transfer pricing, income tax, real property gains tax, indirect taxes, stamp duty, taxation of oil and gas companies, tax incentives, trusts, and asset protection and planning.   Irene has appeared as counsel for taxpayers before the Customs Appeal Tribunal, GST Appeal Tribunal, the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and the Superior Courts of Malaysia.

Irene also practises in the area of personal data protection and privacy laws, and provides information and data management strategies and solutions, business practice and process reviews, as well as template and document reviews for business enterprises.  She has advised and conducted reviews and audits for various business enterprises, including financial institutions.  She has presented papers on personal data protection law and regularly conducts training and workshops for clients and event organisers.

Nimalan Devaraja, Partner, Skrine

Nimalan Devaraja is a partner at Skrine.  He is a commercial litigator who primarily practises in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, company law and shareholders’ disputes, international arbitration, restructuring and insolvency, and regulatory enforcement.

Nimalan is the Honorary Secretary of the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee and is the Co-Chairperson of the Kuala Lumpur Bar's Civil Practice and Court Liaison Committee.  He is also the Deputy Chairperson of the Bar Council Publications Committee.  Nimalan is also a trainer for the Advocacy Training Course organised by the Bar Council.

Nimalan read law at King's College London and graduated with a LLB (Hons) degree in 2010.  He was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Inner Temple in 2011.  He was thereafter admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2012.

Jimmy Yim, Chairman, Drew & Napier LLC

Jimmy Yim is the chairman of Drew & Napier LLC and was previously its managing director for 15 years.  He was appointed as Senior Counsel in 1998, being one of the youngest Senior Counsel below 40 years of age at that time.

Mr Yim has over four decades of experience in civil and commercial litigation and international arbitration.  His experience in trials and international arbitration ranges from dispute in energy, projects, building and construction, joint-ventures, infrastructure, telecommunications to information technology.

He regularly appears as lead counsel before the Singapore Supreme Court, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (“SICC”) and international arbitration.  He has sat in arbitrations as sole arbitrator and part of three-member panels over the years.  He is familiar with arbitrations under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”), International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”), London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”), AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (“ARIAS”) and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”).

Mr Yim is recognised as a leading international disputes and arbitration lawyer by all independent ranking publications such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers Global, Asialaw, and Benchmark Litigation.

Moderator

Anand Raj, Vice President, Malaysian Bar; Co-Chairperson, CCLC

Anand Raj was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1996 and has been a partner of Shearn Delamore & Co. since 2003.  Anand is a partner in his firm’s tax, trade and customs department as well as its competition law and antitrust department.

Asia Business Law Journal (2020–2024) recognised Anand as one of “Malaysia’s Top 100 Lawyers in Competition Law & Antitrust and Tax Disputes & Controversy”. Asialaw’s Client Service Excellence (2021) recognised Anand as “The Highest Rated Lawyer To Work With” in for tax and competition / antitrust.  Anand was recognised as the 2017 “Asia Tax Disputes and Litigation Practice Leader of the Year” by the International Tax Review (“ITR”). Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2020–2023) recognised Anand as an “Elite Practitioner” in competition / antitrust as well as in tax.

Anand is recognised as a “Highly Regarded Practitioner” in the category of indirect tax and tax controversy (2019–2022), as well as “Highly Regarded” in world transfer pricing (“TP”) (2023–2024) by the ITR.  Anand is ranked by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2019–2024) as a “Leading Individual in Tax”.  Anand is recognised as a “Global Leader in Competition” (2019–2020) as well as a “Recommended Corporate Tax Lawyer” (2013–2024) by Who’s Who Legal.  Anand is also ranked as a “Band 1 Lawyer in Tax” (2011–2024) and in competition / antitrust (2015–2024) by Chambers Asia Pacific.  Who’s Who Legal (2021 and 2022) recognised Anand as “National Leader (Southeast Asia)” in corporate tax as well as competition.  In 2023, Who’s Who Legal recognised Anand as the “National Leader in Competition and Corporate Tax”.

Anand has acted in leading tax cases, including for the Malaysian Bar regarding privilege before the Federal Court, Castrol (Aspac Lubricants), ExxonMobil, Bandar Utama City Corporation, SGS Singapore, Petronas Penapisan, Shell Refining and others. Anand also acted for the Malaysian Bar in the Federal Court case of Mohd Najib Hj Abd Razak v Government of Malaysia and in the case of Director General of Inland Revenue v BJT before the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Federal Court.

Anand currently serves as the Vice President of the Malaysian Bar.  Anand is the Chairperson of the Bar Council Tax Committee and the Co-Chair of the Bar Council Corporate and Commercial Law Committee.  Anand is the former Co-Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (“IPBA”) Competition Law Committee, Inaugural Chair of LAWASIA’s Antitrust and Competition Law Sub- Committee, and the Chair of the Competition Law Sub-Committee of the Bar Council, Malaysia.