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Halim Hong & Quek - Corporate/M&A

Halim Hong & Quek

Penang, Malaysia
+2 other locations
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Johor, Malaysia
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Team Services

We service a range of clients in every sector and advice on a broad range of corporate and finance transactions. Our lawyers are renowned for their high quality of service and amiable approach with our clients. We believe in working closely with our clients to assist them in meeting their business objectives. We act for all type of clients including leading international and domestic financing institutions and major corporations in their various capacities. The corporate services that we provides are, among others, drafting and providing advisory services in general commercial matters, corporate debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and flotation exercise on Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, registration of companies, partnerships, subsidiaries, branches, representative offices of local and foreign entities, take-over exercises and legal due diligence inquiries.

We offer legal advice in:

Joint Venture

We have extensive experience in bringing together two or more established businesses to share their costs, resources and talents to accomplish a common objective through joint ventures. We advise clients in providing a business structure and entity, negotiating terms of joint ventures, drafting and preparing all relevant agreements and documentation.

Merger and Acquisition

Our Corporate Department’s experience is in both domestic and cross-border transactions. We advise clients in various industries in all aspects of merger and acquisition exercise including issues on transfer of ownership and business structure to enable strategic management and injection of synergy in their new business. We advise clients on the regulatory regime, assist clients to structure the transaction to suit the needs of our clients, and draft/negotiate transaction and/or documents such as share sale agreement, joint venture agreements, shareholders’ agreement and trademark licensing agreements.

Due Diligence

We conduct due diligence for corporate transactions where we help clients to gain clarity of the objective of due diligence exercise and insights into the relevant categories, subject matters and risks, which in turn has helped clients to make informed decisions. Inquiries are conducted ranging from broad based reputational inquiries to specific areas and its impacts on valuation of a deal or structuring.

Commercial Contracts

We assist our client to draft and negotiate all sort of commercial contracts (from the day-to-day operations to large scale commercial transaction type) including licensing, agency, supply, service and outsourcing agreements. We advise clients on matters arising or incidental to such commercial contract.

Legal Retainer Services

We want our clients to view us as an integral part of their team. We also provide legal retainer services to the clients’ in-house legal team by providing wide-ranging services from drafting, vetting and advising on documents and agreements with fixed monthly fees. Our retainer clients range from property developers, universities, steel & iron products manufacturers to infrastructure developer/contractor. Our retainer legal services packages are flexible and enable our client to tailor the package to meet their legal and budgetary requirements.

Corporate Advisory, Regulatory and Compliance

We help clients gain clarity on the complicated regulatory regimes, best practices in corporate governance and their role, responsibility and risk management within the regime. We work with the client to design and implement compliance policies. We constantly update clients on relevant developments, government policies and regulations in empowering them.

Incorporation and Setting-Up a Business & Foreign Investment

We provide comprehensive advice and guidance in setting up businesses in Malaysia, including incorporation of the relevant entity, regulatory advice applicable to the client’s business, land requirements, equity and capital requirements etc. We provide assistance and guidance to client in applying for licences or permits for e.g. manufacturing licence. Within this practice, we also assist clients for authentication of company documents.