Izral Partnership

On the court record

Izral Partnership appears in the reported judgments as a company and commercial-litigation practice, working mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with occasional matters in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and appearing for defendants and plaintiffs in roughly even measure. Company law is the most frequent theme in its corpus. Its work includes winding-up petitions on the just-and-equitable ground, where the question is whether a breakdown of mutual trust and confidence between the participants justifies the dissolution of the company, and the Fortuna injunction, by which a company seeks to restrain the presentation of a winding-up petition founded on a statutory notice it disputes. A distinct strand concerns fiduciary duties, including the breach of duty by a senior employee and the duty not to make a secret profit, argued in litigation involving a pharmaceutical company. The firm also litigates estoppel and a range of civil-procedure questions — amendment applications, and the striking out of a claim where the primary action has itself been struck out and dismissed — and discovery under Order 24 rules 3 and 7 of the Rules of Court 2012. Its tort work and its handling of statutory provisions in the companies and securities field round out a broadly commercial docket. The counterparties in the corpus include financial institutions such as HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad and Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad, and manufacturing and food companies such as Khee San Food Industries Sdn Bhd and Ouji Seiyaku (M) Sdn Bhd. Acting across company, fiduciary, procedural and tort matters, the firm presents as a commercial litigator whose corpus centres on shareholder and winding-up disputes, breaches of fiduciary duty, and the interlocutory machinery — Fortuna injunctions, amendments and discovery — that surrounds them, rather than on criminal or personal-injury work. Its fiduciary-duty matters in particular illustrate the practice's reach, requiring the court to weigh whether an employee entrusted with a company's affairs diverted an opportunity or profit to himself, while its winding-up work turns on the softer question of whether the relationship between the participants has broken down so completely that dissolution is the just outcome.