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LLM (Applied Law) in Malaysian Legal Practice Meet our Malaysian LLM subject matter experts
ix new subjects are being added to the LLM (Applied Law) n the last COL Asia Newsletter we profiled ten of our
S in Malaysian Legal Practice to bring the total to 12. I ASEAN+6 LLM subject matter experts (SMEs) - for the first
six LLM subjects in Malaysian legal Practice. Chong Wei Lung
and Brendan Siva have since each added a further subject to
MALAYSIAN LEGAL PRACTICE SUBJECTS their SME responsibilities:
The first six LLM subjects of were offered in September  Chong Wei Lung - Partner in Kuala Lumpur firm Cheang
2017 and six new subjects are being added in 2018. & Ariff. SME for MLP1 - Lawyer’s Skills (Malaysia) and
 MLP1: Lawyer’s Skills (Malaysia) MLP3 - Commercial Contracts Practice (Malaysia). Wei
Lung is also the SME for MLP11 - Banking and Finance
 MLP2: Civil Litigation Practice (Malaysia)
Practice (Malaysia).
 MLP3: Commercial Contracts Practice (Malaysia)  Balakumar Balasundram - Partner in Kuala Lumpur firm
 MLP4: Criminal Law Practice (Malaysia) Azim, Tunku Farik & Wong, SME (along with two firm
associates Leena Manaharan and Audrey Eva Fernandez)
 MLP5 : Personal Injury & Torts Practice (Malaysia) for MLP6 - Personal Injury and Torts Practice (Malaysia).
 MLP6: Property Law Practice (Malaysia)  Brendan Siva - Principal in Kuala Lumpur firm, Brendan
 MLP7: Mergers and Acquisitions Practice (Malaysia) Siva, Advocates and Solicitors. SME for MLP2 - Civil
Litigation Practice (Malaysia) in collaboration with Soo
 MLP10: Intellectual Property Practice (Malaysia) Siew Mei, a partner in Shearn Delamore & Co. Brendan is
 MLP11: Banking and Finance Practice (Malaysia) also SME for MLP_DRP1—Advocacy (Malaysia).
 MLP13: Wills Estates and Trusts Practice (Malaysia)  Datuk N. Sivananthan - Founding partner of his firm,
Sivanathan Advocates & Solicitors. SME for Criminal Law
 MLP_DRP1: Advocacy (Malaysia) Practice (Malaysia) in collaboration with Rafika Shari'ah
 MLP_DRP4: Arbitration (Malaysia) Mohd Hassan, a sole practitioner.
Note: All Malaysian LLM subjects are being developed  Jeremiah Gurusamy - Partner in Kuala Lumpur law firm
into discrete professional training modules. Messrs Koh Dipendra Jeremiah (KDJ Law). SME for
Property law Practice (Malaysia) in collaboration with Andy
Teoh an Associate with Kadir Andri & Partners (KAAP).

Wong Tat Chung
Tat Chung is a partner in Kuala Lumpur firm Wong Beh & Toh.
He has a LLB and a LLM (Public International Law) from
King’s College, University of
London. Tat Chung is a
Barrister-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn,
and an Advocate and Solicitor
of the High Court of Malaya.
He has practised since 1989.
Tat Chung’s practice areas are
primarily in equity, corporate
finance, mergers and Wong Tat Chung
acquisitions, competition and
general corporate and commercial matters. He has been
involved in both domestic and cross-border transactions.
Tat Chung is the SME for MLP7 - Mergers and Acquisitions
Practice (Malaysia). He is also the SME for ILP7 - ASEAN+6
Capital Markets Practice.

Lee Chooi Peng
Lee Chooi Peng is a partner in Kuala Lumpur firm Justin Voon
Chooi & Wing (JCW). Chooi Peng graduated LLB from the
University of Leicester in 2000 and she was admitted to the
Malaysian Bar in 2003. Chooi Peng has conducted a wide
variety of contested litigation cases and is an experienced
practitioner in banking and commercial litigation, probate and
administration actions, Wills, estate administration and
management and estate disputes involving trusts law.
Chooi Peng is the College SME for MLP13 - Wills Estates and
LLM (Applied Law) in Malaysian Legal Practice 2018 Trusts Practice (Malaysia).
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