Chan Kean Li
About Chan Kean Li
Chan Kean Li appears as counsel of record in 3 reported Malaysia judgments (2025). These were heard before MYCOA (3).
On the court record
The reported matter documents appellate company-law work on the deemed retirement of directors and corporate governance, grounded in the Court of Appeal judgment.
Chan Kean Li appears in the reported corpus in a group of related Court of Appeal appeals concerning the deemed retirement of company directors, an area of company law that turns on the internal constitution of a company. The appeals raised whether a company director who is due to retire by rotation under the articles of association is deemed to retire, and whether or not re-elected, where no annual general meeting has been held. Appearing for the appellant across the related appeals, the matter engaged the interaction between the requirement to hold an annual general meeting, the mechanism of retirement by rotation, and the continued tenure of directors when the meeting at which retirement and re-election would ordinarily occur has not taken place.
These are questions of real practical importance to the governance of a company, because the answer determines who lawfully holds office, and therefore who may exercise the powers of the board, during a period when the company has not held its annual general meeting. The construction of the articles of association, read with the statutory framework, decides whether a retiring director vacates office automatically or continues until a valid meeting is convened.
In the result, the Court of Appeal set aside the decisions of the High Court in the underlying originating summonses and allowed the appeals with costs to the appellant. A thread running through the matter is the determination of who holds office in a company when its constitutional machinery has not operated as intended, a question that governs the validity of the board's actions. The reported work is thus concentrated in company law and corporate governance, argued before the Court of Appeal of Malaysia, and grounded in the judgment rather than any ranking. It reflects a practice engaged with the constitutional documents that regulate a company's internal affairs.
How many cases has Chan Kean Li appeared in?
Chan Kean Li appears as counsel of record in 3 reported Malaysia judgments (2025).
Which courts does Chan Kean Li appear in?
Chan Kean Li appears before MYCOA (3).
What area of law do Chan Kean Li's reported cases concern?
They concern the deemed retirement of company directors and retirement by rotation under a company's articles of association, argued in related Court of Appeal appeals in which he appeared for the appellant.
What was the central question in the deemed-retirement appeals?
Whether a director due to retire by rotation under the articles is deemed to retire, and whether or not re-elected, where no annual general meeting has been held, and how that affects the director's continued tenure.
What was the outcome of the appeals?
The Court of Appeal set aside the decisions of the High Court in the underlying originating summonses and allowed the appeals with costs to the appellant.