Legal Advice for Malaysia and France

Legal Matters

Your Business Partner in Malaysia.

Fields of expertise

Acquisitions

Business acquisitions (share deals and asset deals) and equity investments

Engineering

Legal engineering of industrial and commercial projects

Contractualization

Cooperation and joint ventures, distribution, agency and franchise relationships, sharing of know-how and technology

Intellectual Property

Protection of intellectual property and trade secrets

Labour relations

Advice of employment contracts (undetermined, ﬁxed-term, probation period… etc.) individual terminations, non renewals and economic lay-oﬀs

Amicable settlement

Without prejudice negotiations with the opposite party(ies) or their lawyers, drafting of the settlement agreement

Arbitration and Mediation

Counsel for claimant or respondent in arbitration and mediation proceedings, in Kuala Lumpur (AIAC Asia International Arbitration Centre), Hong Kong and Singapore, and “ad hoc” arbitrations

International commercial courts

Appearing and pleading in Singapore before SICC Singapore International Commercial Court and its Court of Appeal and in Paris before the Chambre Internationale du Tribunal de Commerce de Paris and the Chambre Internationale de la Cour d’Appel de Paris

Judicial proceedings

Appearing as “instructing solicitor” before the High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in cooperation with a Malaysian lawyer or ﬁrm recommended by us of chosen by the client

Assistance in legal matters

Contracts

• Bilingual English-French support in negotiations, verbal and written form
• Drafting commercial and industrial contracts valid and enforceable at common law

Commercial dispute resolution

• Risk prevention (review of existing agreements including arbitration or similar clause)
• Negotiation aiming at amicable resolution, drafting of settlement agreements
• Representation in arbitration and mediation and before international commercial courts
• “Instructing solicitor” in court actions in cooperation with Malaysian lawyers

Your contact

Maître Philippe Girard-Foley
Counsel

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Disclaimer

With the exception of a role as counsel in international arbitration or mediation, or representation before SICC and the Paris Courts, the assistance on legal matters described in this section is based solely on general principles of law or international law and neither intends nor constitutes the practice of Malaysian law.