Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill

On the court record

Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill appears in the reported judgments as a broad commercial and employment litigation practice, acting across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and taking positions on both sides of the record. Its docket spans contract and tort, banking and finance, company law, evidence, and a recurring line of employment disputes. On the finance side the firm has appeared in Islamic-financing enforcement — a Murabahah revolving-credit facility with contested drawdowns — acting in matters involving Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad and the Platinum group of companies, and in a stay of proceedings pending appeal in a related suit, where the question was whether special circumstances existed to justify the stay. Its company work includes a winding-up petition on the just-and-equitable ground founded on a quasi-partnership and the breakdown of an equal-shareholding relationship. In labour and administrative law the firm appears in constructive-dismissal claims and in judicial review of disciplinary decisions, arguing whether the decision of a disciplinary committee was tainted by irrationality or procedural unfairness and whether the respondents observed the applicable regulations. It also handles cross-border commercial disputes, including a writ action over the supply of aluminium by a China-incorporated counterparty, and evidential and interlocutory contests in the course of trial. The counterparties in the corpus are largely corporate and institutional — among them Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad and Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad, together with various trading, property and resources companies. Its banking work also engages the enforcement of security and the requirements of a valid demand, and its company matters extend to disputes among quasi-partners over the direction and control of closely held companies. On the administrative-law side its judicial-review challenges test whether decision-makers acted within their powers, gave the affected person a fair opportunity to be heard, and reached a conclusion open to them on the material before them. The reported matters describe a firm whose commercial-litigation strength is complemented by a distinct employment and judicial-review practice.