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About Malaysia

As a founding member of ASEAN and its current chair, Malaysia has cemented its position as a key economic hub in Southeast Asia. Its strategic location, robust infrastructure, and growing trade - particularly with ASEAN partners - highlights its pivotal role in regional integration. This is further supported by Malaysia’s participation in major trade agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Emerging sectors like e-commerce, renewable energy, and digital services are fueling new avenues of growth and strengthening regional connectivity.

Bilateral ties with Singapore continues to deepen through initiatives like the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which is expected to enhance cross-border investment, promote sustainable technologies, and encourage digital collaboration. Alongside efforts to align regulations with international standards, improve logistics, and expand high-value manufacturing, these developments reinforce Malaysia’s role as a key contributor of regional economic cooperation.

In Malaysia, we collaborate closely with our WPG Malaysia member firms, Cheang & Ariff and Foong & Partners, to provide legal advice on both transactional and contentious matters.

WPG (Malaysia) offers a comprehensive range of practices, including:

Antitrust & Competition
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets
Construction & Infrastructure
Energy, Infrastructure & Projects
Intellectual Property
Labour & Employment
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity & Investment Funds
Private Wealth & Estate Planning
Real Estate
Regulatory & Compliance
Restructuring & Insolvency
Technology

By combining local insight with regional expertise, we provide tailored, practical cross-border legal solutions that align with your business objectives, positioning us to effectively support your business as it navigates the evolving landscape of Malaysia and beyond.

Cheang & Ariff

Cheang & Ariff is a Malaysian law firm established in Kuala Lumpur in 1986. Its founding philosophy, “Dedication to excellence and driven by passion for the law with a deep appreciation of societal and commercial needs”, remains true to this day. The firm firmly believes that the application of law to real problems must yield just and creative solutions, grounded in experience, while meeting clients’ expectations and underlying commercial objectives. This philosophy has endured for decades as the tried and tested formula behind the firm’s continued dynamism and resilience.

Cheang & Ariff regularly acts for domestic and international public listed companies, multinationals, financial institutions, private equity firms, government-linked entities, private businesses and individuals. Its core practices include dispute resolution and arbitration, corporate and securities regulation, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, intellectual property & technology, data privacy, corporate debt restructuring and insolvency, real estate, tax contentious matter, employment and construction and infrastructure projects. The firm has consistently been recognised as a leading law firm by numerous international legal publications.

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Foong & Partners

Foong & Partners was founded by Dato’ Foong Chee Meng in 2003. The Firm focuses on high-end corporate commercial, capital markets and corporate finance work. It has advised on major Malaysian infrastructure projects and concessions involving land swaps and privatisations, debt and corporate restructuring of large listed companies, inbound and outbound investments in Malaysia, as well as real estate projects. The Firm’s philosophy is to meet clients’ financial and business objectives by providing innovative and flexible legal solutions in a cost-effective manner. In this regard, the Firm strives to provide clients with such solutions within the required timeframe.

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