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Suit Mae Choo

Group general counsel | Sime Darby

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One of the most experienced in-house counsel in the region, Suit Mae Choo has made a major mark on the Southeast Asian legal community. Not only did she have an...

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Suit Mae Choo has over 25 years of experience as a corporate commercial lawyer, starting her career in private practice in Malaysia before joining the Sime Darby Berhad Group conglomerate in August 2006 as the group head legal, mergers and acquisitions. Subsequent to the consolidation of legal units within group strategy and business development and group corporate services she was selected as head, group legal in August 2010. In July 2011 Suit Mae Choo was then promoted to group general counsel as a result of the centralisation of the legal function. Prior to her in-house roles, Suit Mae Choo held a number of positions in private practice in Malaysia and then moved to Hong Kong where she had an eight year stint with Reed Smith Richards Butler, Denton Wilde Sapte and Victor Chu & Co. Her private practice experience in Malaysia comprised of working at Zul Rafique & Partners, where she was one of the founding partners, and then as a partner for Skrine, one of the leading law firms in Malaysia. Her past experience in private practice steered her to focus on capital markets, structured finance, asset securitisation, cross-border joint ventures, corporate finance and corporate debt restructuring. Suit Mae Choo has been key in a number of large-scale domestic and international transactions and has represented a number of multinational companies and financial institutions.

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