The partners who do the work.
A partner-led firm of 40+ lawyers. These are the eight partners who lead our practices — the people you actually work with.
Nicholas Chong Wai Keat
Nicholas leads the firm’s M&A and private equity practice and has advised on cross-border acquisitions, management buy-outs and private-equity investments across South-East Asia for two decades. He is known for keeping complex deals moving without losing the commercial thread, and for telling boards plainly when a deal is not worth doing.
Datuk Zaki Iskandar Rahim
Zaki is one of the firm’s founding partners and heads capital markets. He has taken companies to listing on the Main Market and the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia, advised on secondary fundraisings and take-privates, and structured sukuk programmes. He chairs the firm’s risk and conflicts committee.
Priyadarshini Raj
Priya runs the firm’s venture and fund-formation practice. She acts for founders raising seed to Series C rounds and for the regional and local funds investing in them, and has closed convertible notes, SAFEs, priced equity rounds and down-rounds. She also advises first-time fund managers on structuring and first close.
Sarah Lim Mei Xin
Sarah advises technology and consumer companies on the commercial contracts that run their businesses — SaaS and platform terms, data-processing and licensing, distribution and reseller arrangements — and on data-protection compliance under the PDPA 2010. She is the partner most founders speak to first.
Adrian Fong Zhi Hao
Adrian advises on private M&A, joint ventures and inbound foreign investment, guiding overseas acquirers and strategics through Malaysian ownership rules, sector licensing and completion mechanics. He runs tight due-diligence processes and is a careful drafter of the schedules that decide who bears which risk.
Nurul Aisyah Kamal
Nurul advises growth companies on the people side of scaling — employment contracts and handbooks, senior hires and exits, restructurings and, in particular, employee share option schemes (ESOS/ESOP). She designs option pools that keep founders and investors aligned and translate cleanly into the cap table.
Daniel Ooi Chin Aik
Daniel advises on the tax and holding-structure questions that sit underneath every corporate decision — where to incorporate, how to hold IP and shares, how founders and investors are taxed on an exit, and how to keep a group efficient without straying into aggression. He works alongside the deal teams from the first structuring memo.
Rebecca Tan Su Ann
Rebecca leads the firm’s corporate disputes practice, acting when a deal, a shareholding or a contract goes wrong — shareholder and oppression disputes, warranty and indemnity claims after a sale, and urgent injunctive relief. Having the enforcement view in the room while a deal is being drafted is, she says, the point.
Tell us what you are building.
Whether you are incorporating, raising a round, buying a business or heading for an exit, the first conversation is on us. Send a short outline and the right partner will respond within one working day.