Shahrizat Rashid & Lee

On the court record

Shahrizat Rashid & Lee appears in the reported judgments as a contract and commercial-litigation practice, working mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with matters in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and appearing most often for defendants. Contract is the defining theme of its corpus. Its work includes a dispute over the return of monies deposited with a party said to have breached a custodian agreement, the construction of an investment agreement and the obligations it imposes, and a tenancy agreement where the question was the effect of a "Notwithstanding" clause on the parties' right to terminate early. The firm also appears in employment-related contract disputes, including an appeal against a High Court decision on the wrongful termination of an arrangement, and in company-law matters engaging a director's fiduciary duties and duty of fidelity. Its civil-procedure work includes a stay of proceedings of a limited or temporary nature and the striking out of claims, and it has appeared in a foreclosure and order-for-sale matter brought by a statutory body against a landowner. A family-law matter concerning the division of matrimonial assets under section 76 of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 also features in its Court of Appeal work. The counterparties in the corpus include corporate and statutory parties such as UEM Land Berhad and the Social Security Organisation (PERKESO). Acting predominantly for defendants, the firm presents as a litigator whose corpus centres on contract — custodian, investment, tenancy and termination disputes — supported by company, civil-procedure, foreclosure and family-law work. The custodian and investment-agreement disputes are a distinctive part of this profile, engaging the firm with the obligations that arise where one party holds money or assets on terms for another, and the consequences of a breach of those terms. Its work on the construction of specific contractual clauses — a "Notwithstanding" provision, an early-termination right — shows a practice attentive to the precise drafting of commercial agreements and the outcomes that turn on it.