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 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 is sought after by corporations to assist them in managing and navigating the social criteria in ESG requirements or guidance in Business and Human Rights; and is currently a facilitator for the Leading for Impact (LIP) programme conducted by the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM) on this issue.
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 client base is spread across various sectors and includes regulators.
Languages
English and Malay.
Memberships
- Member, Anti-Sexual Harassment Tribunal
- Governor of Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance (MICG)
- Past Chair, International Bar Association’s Employment & Industrial Relations Law Committee
- Vice President, 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
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 partners)‘Prompt, thorough, and knowledgeable’, the team at Skrine provides comprehensive advice across a broad spectrum of employment-related mandates including disciplinary action, performance management, and compliance. The team also undertakes a range of employment disputes while also providing support in the event of prosecution by statutory bodies. Leading the practice, Selvamalar Alagaratnam advises clients in various industries on issues ranging from the protection of confidential information to investigations and disciplinary actions. Also key to the practice, is Foo Siew Li, handling both contentious and non-contentious employment issues, while Sara Lau regularly acts for employers in unjust dismissal claims and other contentious matters in all levels of courts in Malaysia.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- TMT