Lim Kian Leong & Co

On the court record

Lim Kian Leong & Co appears in the reported judgments as a commercial-litigation practice with a marked concentration in fraud and consent-order disputes, working mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with matters in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). Fraud is a defining theme of its corpus: the impeachment of a consent order alleged to have been procured by conscious and deliberate concealment, and the fraudulent transfer of land by an imposter in breach of statutory and common-law duties. The firm also litigates company law, contract, natural justice and abuse of process, and appears in derivative-action matters, including applications for leave to commence an action in the company's name under the Companies Act 2016. Its civil-procedure work includes the stay of proceedings pending an appeal in another suit, argued on whether special circumstances exist, in litigation involving Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad and a listed counterparty. A further strand concerns insurance, including a claim for consequential loss following a fire and the burden a plaintiff bears in establishing such a claim. The counterparties in the corpus include financial and capital companies such as Rothchilds Capital (I) Sdn Bhd, insurers such as Berjaya Sompo Insurance Berhad, and development and hospital companies. Acting for defendants, plaintiffs, appellants and respondents across these matters, the firm presents as a litigator whose corpus centres on fraud and the setting aside of orders obtained by improper means, alongside company, contract and insurance disputes and the abuse-of-process and natural-justice questions that arise when the integrity of earlier proceedings is challenged. The impeachment of a consent order is a demanding remedy, since a court will not lightly set aside an order the parties themselves agreed to, and the firm's corpus shows the high threshold of proving conscious and deliberate concealment being tested on the facts. Its fire-loss and derivative-action matters broaden the picture, but the through-line is a practice repeatedly concerned with whether an earlier order, transfer or transaction was procured by fraud or other impropriety.