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Client Testimonials

CLIENT: Anonymous
COMPANY/FIRM: Anonymous
TESTIMONIAL: Ms Wong Keat Ching from ZRp is a consummate professional with an excellent work ethic. She consistently responds to client’s queries on a timely basis and is detailed and thorough when preparing for trial. She also has a fine sense of understanding and balance between one’s legal rights and the practical alternatives.

CLIENT: Lai Tak Ming, Executive Director Country Head, Human Resource
COMPANY/FIRM: UOB Malaysia
TESTIMONIAL: I’ve been working with Keat Ching of Zul Rafique as my Industrial Relations Legal Counsel in my previous employment and because of the excellent service she have provided over the years, I have again engaged her in my current role with a Financial Institution. Keat Ching and her team has always provided good, thorough advise and have also gone the extra mile in providing impromptu and ad-hoc advise. She is very knowledgeable on the latest IR development in the country and I am comfortable with her views and guidance. She has a good balance between legal considerations and business needs.

CLIENT: Christopher Straughan Manager Human Resources – APAC
COMPANY/FIRM: Hoover Ferguson
TESTIMONIAL: Hoover Ferguson has been working with Zul Rafique & Partners and specifically Wong Keat Ching for more than 3 years. Wong Keat Ching and her team provides excellent advice and is efficient in providing practical solutions to all of our queries. She and her team have demonstrated an excellent understanding on all facets of employee and industrial relations in Malaysia.

CLIENT: Senior Legal Counsel
COMPANY/FIRM: PETRONAS Chemicals Group Bhd
TESTIMONIAL: Ms Farah Shuhadah is very smart, creative, calm and yet bold! All the right ingredients for a great litigator. She will go the extra mile to study the technical aspects of the dispute and understand them perfectly well. I feel very confident and comforted that she handles my case.

CLIENT: Senior Legal Counsel
COMPANY/FIRM: Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS)
TESTIMONIAL: Ms. Farah Shuhadah has provided excellent quality service in delivering practical, comprehensive and clear solutions when dealing with potential or ongoing legal disputes. We truly recognize her efforts, reliability and quick response in ensuring the best possible outcome for the company.

CLIENT: Dato’ Seri Azlan Meah bin Hj Ahmed Meah, Executive Director
COMPANY/FIRM: Berjaya Corporation Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: I was represented better than I could have ever imagined. My needs were put first and I was treated as a friend rather than a number. My opinions were valued and my doubts were always reassured. My nerves were calmed and the process was always explained. Dato’ Firah went above and beyond and did everything she could to ensure a great outcome. I couldn’t have asked for a better law firm. Thanks Dato’ Firah.

CLIENT: Mohd Fauzie Bin Zainor, Senior Manager, Corporate Department
COMPANY/FIRM: Berjaya Corporation Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: Dato’ Muzaffirah and her team are some of the most amazing lawyers out there. I have known her and her colleagues both as a client. I can’t say enough good things, honest, reliable, professional, and gets the job done. She helped me fast and in a very cost-effective way. Thank you, Dato’ Firah & The Great Zul Rafique law firm!

CLIENT: Shashitharan Nair, Senior Manager, Corporate Services & Information
COMPANY/FIRM: Berjaya Corporation Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: Dato’ Firah is no ordinary person, her loyalty runs in her bloodstream, she is just, sharp and committed till resolving matters at hand. Known her for almost 10 years, you can bend the law but you can’t break her spirit and determination. Highly recommended for all levels!

CLIENT: Mohd Taufik Mohd Fuad, Senior Manager, Corporate Services & Information
COMPANY/FIRM: Berjaya Corporation Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: Dato’ Firah is very pleasant to deal with, always efficient and highly-motivated at all times. We’ve got so many things moving very fast with her advice & recommendation. Cheers to many more collaborations in the future.

CLIENT: Team Head, Debt Capital Markets
COMPANY/FIRM: Maybank Investment Bank
TESTIMONIAL: The team led by Ms Loh Mei Mei is well experienced in corporate bonds and Sukuk transactions. The team is proactive in highlighting potential issues and solutions, always ready to provide advice and solutions from a legal perspective and continuously produce commendable work quality in a timely manner. ZRp remains one of our preferred choices as legal counsel for our DCM transactions.

CLIENT: Chan Weng Fai, Director-Corporate Finance
COMPANY/FIRM: KSK Group Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: It was a pleasure for me working with Jerry Ong on a few corporate transactions. Valued his legal inputs as well as his commercial approach towards each transaction. Always responsive, responsible and hands-on with focus on the end game for our benefit especially during negotiation sessions. He is quick to grasp on the intricacies of each transaction and comes up with holistic solutions for us. Jerry has a touch of business savviness, not just a lawyer, making him unique. Excellent client experience.

CLIENT: Associate Director, Institutional and Product Development
COMPANY/FIRM: Guidance Investments Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: Mei Mei is a true specialist in her area of practice. Diligent, innovative and knowledgeable – traits which are assuring to the client, she and her team have the ability to strike an equilibrium between the key ingredients of legal requirements, regulatory obligations, commercial needs as well as practicality in the sound advice and solutions that were offered to address complex legal and structural issues which we encountered to bring to the fore a novel sukuk structure of which there has been no precedence. Always making time for the client, it has always been a pleasant and enlightening experience to work with Mei Mei and her team.

CLIENT: General Counsel, Legal
COMPANY/FIRM: Axiata Digital
TESTIMONIAL: Jerry Ong brings with him many years of experience on advising on complex and intricate corporate transactions. His in-depth practical knowledge of M&A, corporate finance and corporate governance have greatly assisted us in maneuvering across deep and unknown waters. He is easy to deal with and ever available for quick discussions at short notice. Turnaround times are quick too. With his familiarity with the laws and operational knowledge of how the boardroom and transactions actually work, he is able to break down his explanation and advice in simple, easy to understand terms. He takes a very pragmatic and practical approach on his counsel to solve issues and with a lot of commercial sense and understanding built into it. This makes his advice relatable and easy for management to understand, which I think is key to a successful counsel engagement.

CLIENT: Jennifer Chong, General Counsel
COMPANY/FIRM: KSK Group Berhad
TESTIMONIAL: We have had a truly great experience working with Jerry on some of our corporate transactions. The thing that stood out for us with Jerry was the fact that he was not only legally competent but has such good business and commercial acumen and mindset and gave very practical recommendations. He is very committed and always willing to go the extra mile with swift and prompt response which is given in a simple and yet easy to understand legal explanation. He provides solutions in a holistic angle and yet at the same time he has such an amazing attention to details. Highly recommended.

CLIENT: Corporate and Investment team
COMPANY/FIRM: Anonymous
TESTIMONIAL: We have the fortune of working with Jerry Ong for several occasions on acquisition deals, relying on his extensive legal experience that is balanced by practical commercial wisdom, and backed by skillful business negotiation prowess. Quick to capture the issues and undercurrents at hand, time and time again, he has enabled us to achieve outcomes that advances our transactional interest and objectives. Further, with quick response time and always prepared with comprehensive research beforehand, he is an excellent lawyer to have at your side for deals.

International capabilities

Legal Alliance

Zul Rafique & Partners (ZRp) is a member firm of Meritas Global Network. Founded in 1990, Meritas is a premier global alliance of independent law firms. As an invitation-only legal alliance, Meritas seeks to uphold the highest standards of legal advice and client service. Meritas member firms are continuously monitored and measured to ensure they meet the network’s high standards which includes client and member evaluations. As such, only firms that meet their strict criteria are given the opportunity to join. Meritas’ disciplined, analytical approach assures clients receive prequalified legal assistance and exceptional service, every time. As a member firm, ZRp is able to leverage the global reach and local expertise of top-rated and prominent member firms worldwide to facilitate our clients’ needs.

China Desk

Further, as one of the largest independent law firms in Malaysia with over 90 lawyers, ZRp recognises the significance of recent developments in China including the introduction of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative and have established a China Desk dedicated to support and provide legal services to Chinese clients and corporations.

Our dedicated ZRp China Desk team, drawn from across our various practice groups, are equipped with the necessary cultural knowledge, language skills and legal experience in order to best cater to our clients’ needs. Our lawyers have also advised a wide range of clients from listed companies to private investors in Chinese investment projects, cross-border transactions, international arbitration and legal disputes as well as issues in and out of China.

Awards and Achievements

In addition, some of our globally-recognised awards in the past year (2021/2022) include:

Asialaw Profiles 2022

Zul Rafique & Partners maintains a solid reputation for its banking and finance, capital markets, construction and employment expertise. It has a standout banking practice, highly respected for its handling of complex debt restructuring, asset-backed securities, Islamic and project finance. The firm is also especially skilled in debt capital markets work, particularly with sukuks.

• Banking & Finance: Outstanding
• Capital Markets: Outstanding
• Banking & Financial Services: Highly Recommended
• Capital Markets: Outstanding
• Technology & Telecommunications: Notable
• Construction: Highly Recommended
• Corporate/M&A: Recommended
• Real Estate: Highly Recommended
• Labour and Employment: Outstanding
• Energy: Recommended
• Infrastructure: Recommended
• Dispute Resolution: Recommended

IFLR1000 31st Edition 2021/2022

• Tier 1: Banking and Finance
• Tier 1: Capital markets: Debt
• Tier 2: Capital markets: Equity
• Tier 3: M&A
• Tier 2: Project Development: Infrastructure

Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific

• Tier 1: Construction
• Tier 1: Labour and Employment
• Tier 3: Commercial and Transaction
• Recommended: White Collar Crime

IFN Deals of the Year Awards

Real Estate Deal of the Year 2020