Yon See Ting > Christopher & Lee Ong > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile
Christopher & Lee Ong Offices
LEVEL 22, AXIATA TOWER NO. 9, JALAN STESEN SENTRAL 5
KUALA LUMPUR SENTRAL, 50470
KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia
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Yon See Ting
Position
Partner, Christopher & Lee Ong, Malaysia
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Competition & Antitrust
- Capital Markets
- Corporate Commercial
Career
See Ting is a Partner in the Corporate practice of Christopher & Lee Ong. She is also the Head of our Capital Markets Practice Group and co-heads the Competition & Antitrust Practice Group. She is ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for both Corporate/M&A and Competition and Antitrust and listed as a distinguished practitioner in Asialaw for Competition.
Since January 2021, she is a member of Bursa Securities’ Market Participants Committee which has oversight over compliance with Rules of Bursa Malaysia Securities and prior to that since 2014, a member of Bursa Securities’ Listing Committee, which has oversight over compliance with the Bursa Listing Requirements. She is also a Securities Commission Malaysia appointed Public Interest Director since 2019 in the Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia, a self-regulatory organization (SRO) with purview over the unit trust scheme (UTS) and private retirement scheme (PRS) industry.
She has more than 25 years of experience as a corporate lawyer in Malaysia in advisory as well as in transactional work, including leading negotiations and cross border exercises. She is focused on M&As, takeovers, debt and securities offering, initial public offerings (IPOs), corporate restructurings and competition law.
Her competition law experience extends from acting in dawn raids and investigations (including for cartels and abuse of dominance matters), merger approvals, acting as competition law counsel in M&A transactions, structuring of vertical and horizontal arrangements, review anti-competitive agreements such as distribution or supply agreements, advising on joint ventures covering RPMs, market sharing and exclusivity issues or on rebate structures.
Memberships
- Member of the Market Participants Committee of Bursa Malaysia
- Public Interest Director in the Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM)
Education
- LLB (Hons), University of London
- Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom (non-practising)
- Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya
- ACCA Certified Diploma in Accounting & Finance (C.DipAF)
- MA (Merit) in EU Competition Law, King’s College London
Lawyer Rankings
Malaysia > Antitrust and competition
(Leading individuals)Christopher & Lee Ong
has cemented itself as one of the leading firms in the antitrust and competition arena. By virtue of its membership of the Rajah & Tann Asia group, the department is well-positioned to provide a wealth of tech-enabled solutions. Offering a full service to its clients, the firm regularly advises international multinational corporations, banks, government organisations, and international counsels. Key strengths include advising on competition law concerns in the telecoms industry, conducting due diligence, acting as counsel in M&A transactions, and carrying out comprehensive audits and reviews of clients’ business operations. Yon See Ting heads the team, and Jane Guan has been instrumental in growing the competition practice. Both practitioners are praised as ‘approachable and collaborative, with deep expertise in competition law’.
Malaysia > Capital markets
On account of its membership of Rajah & Tann Asia, Christopher & Lee Ong is well-positioned to advise clients on various cross-border capital market mandates, particularly across Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The department is headed by Yon See Ting, Annette Soh, and Fiona Sequerah, whose combined experience enables the firm to offer advice on IPOs, corporate governance rules, sale and purchase agreements, and due diligence concerns. Advising clients on debt fundraising exercises also lies within the firm’s scope of activity.
Malaysia > Corporate and M&A
(Leading individuals)The practice at Christopher & Lee Ong harnesses an ‘in-depth understanding of market practices’ in the corporate and M&A arena. The team’s workload includes a variety of matters, spanning the full lifecycle of transactions on behalf of its industry-spanning domestic and multinational client roster, while providing support on regulatory approvals and compliance mandates, in addition to competition and antitrust issues, and industry-specific concerns. The practice also sees high-stakes M&A bidding and structuring matters through to execution. The team is collectively led by Yon See Ting, Kuok Yew Chen
and Yau Yee Ming, who bring a wealth of experience in cross-border transactions, Christopher Lee, Por Chuei Ying, See Hua Chua, and Anette Soh. Other key contacts in the group include Kelvin Kho and consultant Lee Hock Chye.
Lawyer Rankings
- Antitrust and competition Malaysia
- Corporate and M&A Malaysia
- Leading individuals Malaysia > Corporate and M&A
- Leading individuals Malaysia > Antitrust and competition
- Capital markets Malaysia
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition
- Corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property
- Projects and energy
- Shipping
- TMT (including Fintech)