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Meet the College subject matter experts Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Michael also has
in ASEAN Cross-Border Legal Practice extensive experience working with clients on litigation,
licensing, regulation and import/export issues in Asia
ubject matter experts (SMEs) for the new ASEAN Cross- (including China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines) and in
S Border Legal Practice LLM subjects are currently working Europe. Michael is the SME for Intellectual Property Practice
with the Content Design and Development team on the first (International).
five subjects.
Wong Tat Chung
Raphael Tay Tat Chung is a partner in Kuala Lumpur firm Wong Beh &
Raphael Tay Choon Tien is a partner in Kuala Lumpur firm Toh. He has a LLB and a LLM (Public International Law) from
Chooi & Company. Raphael has been in practice for over 27 King’s College, University of London. Tat Chung is a Barrister-
years, with extensive experience in at-law, Lincoln’s Inn, and an
corporate and commercial, mergers Advocate and Solicitor of the
and acquisitions and information High Court of Malaya. He has
technology law. His keen interest in practised since 1989. Tat
and knowledge of the economics and Chung’s practice areas are
politics of South East Asia results in primarily in equity, corporate
many invitations to present seminars finance, mergers and
and conduct conferences organised acquisitions, competition and
by both private and government general corporate and Wong Tat Chung
sectors. Raphael is SME for two commercial matters. He has
ASEAN Cross-Border legal Practice been involved in both domestic and cross-border transactions.

subjects: Commercial Law Practice His experience includes, debt and equity securities offerings,
Raphael Tay (International) and Mergers and corporate restructurings of insolvent companies, takeovers,
Acquisitions Practice (International). mergers and acquisitions of companies and businesses, initial
public offerings, infrastructure, privatisations, debt
David Ong restructurings, venture and development capital financing,
timesharing, unit trusts and investment funds, loan
David Ong Chan Tong is also a partner in Kuala Lumpur firm syndications and debt financing, foreign direct investment joint
Chooi & Company. David’s practice focuses on capital ventures and technology transfers, placement and
markets, mergers and acquisitions, and construction and underwriting arrangements, employment matters and
infrastructure projects. He has commercial property transactions and property joint ventures.
advised on a wide range of corporate Tat Chung is the SME for Capital Markets Practice
exercises including initial public (International). ▄▌
offerings, takeovers, privatisations,
corporate financing, mergers and
acquisitions, joint ventures and
foreign direct investments. David
also has a keen interest in
infrastructure projects, and has
advised on engineering procurement LLM (Applied Law) in Malaysian Legal Practice
and construction contracts, power
purchase agreements, operation and new Master of Laws (Applied Law) major in Malaysian
maintenance agreements, David Ong A Legal Practice was launched in August 2017. offering six
government procurements and bids initial subjects in the September 2017 intake.
for infrastructure projects. David has a Bachelor of Laws and The LLM programme was developed in collaboration with Bar
Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne. He Council Malaysia in terms of a September 2016 Memorandum
is the SME for Banking and Finance Practice (International). of Understanding to
collaborate on postgraduate
Michael Chu legal education and training
for the 17,000-member
Michael P. Chu is a Chicago-based partner in US International
law firm McDermott Will & Emery. Michael focuses his Malaysian legal profession.
practice on all aspects of patent law, including complex The Bar Council’s
litigation, opinions and prosecution. collaboration included
Michael handles patent, trademark, assisting the College to
trade secret and copyright matters, recruit experienced Malaysian
including trials, hearings, post-grant practitioners as subject matter
proceedings and mediation. His experts and as curriculum
experience also includes complex advisory committee members.
patent cases, design patent cases, The initial six subjects in the Bar Council Malaysia logo
International Trade Commission LLM programme were
(ITC) investigations and a strong designed to cover the bulk of the core practice areas included
appellate practice before the US in the Certificate of Legal Practice Examinations (CLPE) that
Michael Chu

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