Jasbeer, Nur & Lee

On the court record

Jasbeer, Nur & Lee appears in the reported judgments as a company and commercial-litigation practice, working almost entirely in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with occasional matters reaching the Federal Court (Mahkamah Persekutuan). Company law is the backbone of its corpus. Its work includes oppression proceedings under section 346 of the Companies Act 2016 brought against the controllers of a company, and — a distinctive strand — applications for a judicial management order under the Companies Act 2016, a corporate-rescue mechanism, in matters involving substantial holding companies and their financiers and interveners, including Maybank Islamic Berhad and a statutory fund. It also litigates disputes over the transfer and beneficial ownership of shares, including whether a defendant validly acquired a shareholding. A further, recognisable theme is strata and management-corporation litigation: the supply of electricity to the common area of a subdivided strata building and the respective responsibilities of a joint management body, the management corporation and the electricity utility. The counterparties in the corpus are largely corporate, spanning plantation, development and healthcare sectors — among them VPC Global Sdn Bhd, Blue Valley Plantation Berhad, ASM Development Sdn Bhd and Maju Healthcare Sdn Bhd — together with the electricity utility. Its civil-procedure work covers interlocutory applications and questions of whether a proceeding was commenced in the correct forum. Acting for plaintiffs, defendants, applicants and petitioners across these matters, the firm presents as a corporate-disputes practice with particular depth in shareholder oppression, judicial management and strata-scheme litigation, rather than as a criminal or personal-injury practice, and its occasional appearances in the apex court indicate that the corporate questions it argues can carry through to final determination. The judicial-management matters are a particularly current strand, engaging a corporate-rescue regime under which a distressed company seeks the protection of a court-supervised administration, and the firm has appeared where financiers and statutory funds intervene to protect their interests in that process. Its strata litigation, by contrast, is rooted in the everyday governance of subdivided buildings, where the allocation of responsibility for common-area services can turn on the interaction between the developer, the management body and the utility.