Ms Selvamalar Alagaratnam > Skrine > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile
Skrine Offices
Level 8, Wisma UOA Damansara
50 JALAN DUNGUN, DAMANSARA HEIGHTS
50490 KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia
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Ms Selvamalar Alagaratnam
Work Department
- Employment Disputes
- Employment Advisory and Compliance
- Employee Fraud Management and Investigations
- Immigration
- Medical Negligence
Position
Partner.
Career
Selvamalar is co-head of the firm’s Employment practice. She provides integrated support to a wide range of clients in various industries on all employment/human resource related matters including compliance with all laws applicable to employment relationships; managing the exit of employees whether by way of collective reduction in force exercises or individual terminations for misconduct or poor performance; protection of confidential and proprietary information; investigations and disciplinary actions; trade unions, both recognition and collective bargaining; dispute resolution at all levels and business immigration.
She also provides strategic advice in internal fraud management advising clients in high profile and highly sensitive matters involving fraud perpetrated by employees; and the options available to the organisations to obtain redress against the wrongdoers.
Her practice extends to focused compliance on bribery and corruption as well as acting for medical practitioners in negligence and malpractice suits.
Languages
English and Malay.
Memberships
- Immediate Past Chair, International Bar Association’s Employment & Industrial Relations Law Committee
- General Secretary, Malaysian Society for Labour and Social Security Laws (local chapter of International Society for Labour and Social Security Laws)
- International Vice Chair, Outreach to International Lawyers Committee for American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment
- Member, Bar Council’s Industrial and Employment Law Committee
- Member, Lawasia’s Labour Law Committee
Education
- Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (1994)
- Certificate of Legal Practice (1993)
- LL.B (Hons), University of London (1992)
Lawyer Rankings
Malaysia > Labour and employment
(Leading individuals)Housing a team of practitioners with ‘impressive track records and impeccable legal skills’, Skrine acts for employers on the full scope of mandates, including investigations into breaches of employee confidentiality, disciplinary actions, reductions in workforce and general compliance issues. The team also advises clients on maintaining minimal exposure throughout disputes, in addition to handling civil actions and cases at the Federal Court, namely in relation to breaches of contract or restrictive covenant, and recovery of funds matters. Selvamalar Alagaratnam leads the practice and Foo Siew Li advises on contentious and non-contentious employment issues, while Siva Kumar Kanagasabai is noted for her expertise in shipping-related employment mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- TMT (including Fintech)