Cheang & Ariff

On the court record

Cheang & Ariff appears in the reported judgments as a corporate and commercial-litigation practice, acting for plaintiffs, defendants and respondents across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). Its matters cluster in capital markets and company law: a regulatory dispute brought by Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad against a listed group and its nominees concerning the Main Market Listing Requirements and a major disposal of assets; contests over the remuneration of interim liquidators under section 479 of the Companies Act 2016 in a winding up; and a share-sale dispute between a purchaser and vendor turning on the terms of a share sale agreement. The firm also appears in enforcement and recovery work — a garnishee application and the question whether leave of the court is required before a judgment creditor may commence garnishee proceedings — and in a moneylending matter concerning an allegedly illegal loan advanced under a letter of undertaking. It has litigated the enforceability of an oral agreement said to have been made gratuitously and without consideration, and applications to convert an originating summons into a writ action under Order 5 rule 4 and Order 28 of the Rules of Court 2012 where the issues involve substantial disputes of fact unsuited to affidavit evidence. Beyond the commercial core, its corpus includes tort, intellectual-property claims and a constitutional dispute engaging the Pool Betting Act 1967 read with the Federal Constitution. Its counterparties are largely corporate and institutional, including capital-markets bodies and financial institutions such as Public Bank Berhad and technology and finance companies. Procedural questions recur in its docket, including whether leave from the court is required before a judgment creditor commences a garnishee proceeding, and the treatment of a winding-up petition where interim liquidators have been appointed to a plantation-sector group. The reported matters together describe a firm whose strength lies in company, capital-markets and commercial-recovery disputes, with a secondary presence in tort, intellectual property and constitutional litigation.