S Ravenesan

On the court record

S Ravenesan appears in the reported judgments as a company and construction-litigation practice, working across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and appearing most often as respondent or defendant. Company law is the most frequent theme in its corpus. Its work includes disputes over the transfer of shares — for example whether a transfer was an outright gift — winding-up petitions founded on an unsatisfied judgment debt and applications to strike them out, and matters engaging section 414 of the Companies Act 2016 concerning a financially distressed company and interim judicial management, in litigation involving Sarawak Cable Berhad. Construction-payment adjudication under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA) features as well, including an appeal raising a question of considerable doctrinal importance concerning a company in liquidation. The firm's civil-procedure work is substantial: striking out, the expungement of evidence, and questions of mediation and settlement privilege in litigation involving the Bandar Utama group of companies, and the consolidation of suits under Order 4 rule 1 of the Rules of Court 2012. It also appears in trusts disputes and in a joint-venture matter involving a wrongful caveat and section 329(1) of the National Land Code. The counterparties in the corpus include property, power and cable companies, among them the Bandar Utama City group, Sarawak Cable Berhad and AmBank (M) Berhad. Acting across company, construction, procedural and land matters, the firm presents as a commercial litigator whose corpus centres on shareholder and winding-up disputes, construction-payment enforcement and the evidential and procedural questions — privilege, expungement and consolidation — that attend complex commercial trials. The settlement-privilege and expungement arguments in the Bandar Utama litigation show a practice attentive to what evidence a court may properly receive, particularly where prior mediation or negotiation is said to be protected from disclosure. Its section 414 interim-judicial-management work, meanwhile, places it within the corporate-rescue architecture of the Companies Act 2016, acting where a financially distressed company seeks the court's protection, so that the firm's corpus reaches from the enforcement of construction payments through to the restructuring of insolvent enterprises.