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Southeast Asia Teams 2018

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Group general counsel of Sime Darby, Choo Suit Mae, sums up the ethos of her legal team as being to ‘support the business and strive to be strategic partners to the commercial teams – we are lawyers first and are the legal and ethical conscience of the organisation’. Operating in a centralised structure advising on all legal matters across the company’s five business units, the team ‘is closely involved in M&A transactions, corporate exercises, fundraising, disputes and IP management, it formulates legal policies and provides transactional/strategic support to the divisional legal teams’. With a clear reporting structure, the team has “champions” based in head office that are ‘assigned to each of the divisional legal teams they are the first point of contact for. This structure enhances reporting and the escalation of issues so that immediate action can be taken to address any legal risks and facilitates the standardisation of advisory work, optimisation of resources, in-house training and career development’. Malaysia headquartered property business Sime Darby Berhad recently completed an important corporate reshuffle where its two main business units – Sime Darby Plantation and Sime Darby Property – were spun off from Sime Darby Berhad and separately listed on the Malaysian stock exchange. This facilitated changes in the legal team made in early 2018.

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