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Mr Weng Hwee Tay

+603 6208 5900 twh@lh-ag.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Partner (Financial Services, Banking & Finance, Corporate Finance, Energy, Oil & Gas, Mergers & Acquisitions).

Career

A mergers & acquisitions practitioner, Weng Hwee handles the more complex transactional work at the firm.

“Especially good at devising practical solutions to issues“, Weng Hwee heads the Mergers & Acquisitions department, advising local and international clients on various high-value transactions. He also handles real estate joint ventures and development, equity capital markets, debts and corporate restructurings, banking and finance, corporate advisory and general commercial transactions.

Weng Hwee was recently recognised in the “Hall of Fame” for the Real Estate and Construction practice and was also ranked as a “Leading Individual” in both corporate/M&A and Capital Markets practices in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 rankings. He is ranked as a “Distinguished Practitioner” in the Asialaw Profiles 2023/2024 and was recently ranked “Band 4” in Corporate/M&A and “Band 2” in Real Estate in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023 rankings. In 2022, Weng Hwee was noted as one of Malaysia’s Top 100 lawyers in The A-List by the Asia Business Law Journal. He was also recently ranked as “Highly Regard” for M&A practice area in the IFLR1000 2023/2024 Ranking.

Languages

English, Malay.

Education

LLB (Hons) University of Melbourne
BCom University of Melbourne
Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya