Ms Karen Cheah Yee Lynn > Chooi & Company > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile
Chooi & Company Offices
LEVEL 5, MENARA BRDB
285 JALAN MAAROF, BUKIT BANDARAYA
59000 KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia
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Ms Karen Cheah Yee Lynn
Work Department
Banking and Finance, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate
Position
Karen’s practice areas include banking and finance, mergers & acquisition, corporate & commercial, real estate, aircraft financing, and regulatory compliance. Her extensive experience in contentious matters adds to her abilities in her corporate and commercial practice.
Career
Karen joined Chooi & Company as a partner on 1 March 2016.
Karen is passionate in her quest for knowledge, commitment to clients, the betterment of the Bar and the legal profession, and has an ardent interest in public interest issues. She is a current Malaysian Bar Council member, and was the past Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Malaysian Bar. She was awarded the ATC Outstanding Alumni Award in 2016.
Karen is also the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee for Amendments to the Legal Professional Act and a member of the Institutional and Law Reform Committee, Child Rights Committee, Trades in Liberalisation of Services, and Finance Committee; of the Malaysian Bar Council.
Karen was a panellist speaker at the University of London Alumni Debate on the topic ‘Arbitration is not about just settlement, it is just about settlement’ in 2017. She also spoke at the Trilateral Regulatory Exchange Programme 2017 organised by Bank Negara Malaysia on the topic of how lawyers comply with AML/CFT regulatory requirements, challenges and compliances. In 2016, she was a presenter on the topic of ‘Technology & the Legal Profession’ at the International Malaysian Law Conference. She regularly speaks at seminars, forums and conferences domestically and on international platforms.
Karen is also the author / contributor of the LexisNexis: Practice Guide on Corporate: Financing.
Languages
English and Bahasa Malaysia.
Memberships
Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
Education
Karen graduated with a degree in law from the University of London in 1993, and thereafter obtained the Malaysian Certificate in Legal Practice in 1994. She was admitted as an advocate & solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in October 1995.
Lawyer Rankings
Malaysia > Corporate and M&A
The Bangsar-based team at Chooi & Company is equipped to advise its roster of clients on a variety of mandates, including the due diligence aspects of M&A transactions, cross-jurisdictional share sale and purchase agreements, in addition to joint ventures. Key team members include Jimmy Ng Chwe Hwa, Karen Cheah Yee Lynn, and Lim Tsu Qi, who was promoted to partner in July 2022. Tan Ming-Li, Yoon Ming Sun, and Yeat Soo Ching left the firm following the separation of the firm from Cheang & Ariff in March 2023.