Qualifications

• University of Oxford (MA)
• University of Oxford (BA) (Hons) Jurisprudence
• Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya

Practice Areas

• Policy & legislative drafting
• Governmental advisory
• Regulatory & compliance
• Technology, media & telecommunications
• Privacy & data protection
• Competition

Notable Transactions

• Drafted Acts of Parliament, amendments to Acts of Parliament and subsidiary legislation, and advised statutory bodies and regulatory authorities on policy development and implementation.
• Acted for agencies of the Federal and State Governments on government-to-government agreements and memorandum of understanding, concession agreements, development agreements, consultancy and project management agreements, operational and services agreements, and procurement processes.
• Advised on regulatory issues arising from the provision of telecommunications and information technology services, including VoIP services, business process outsourcing, cloud computing, e-commerce, financial technology and matters arising from MSC Malaysia status.
• Advised on technology and telecommunications transactions, including drafting and negotiating agreements for 4G / LTE network rollout, the provision of applications systems, business process outsourcing, cloud computing and software as a service.
• Conducted compliance exercises for companies in multiple industries, including telecommunications, technology and financial services, pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, the Competition Act 2010, the Strategic Trade Act 2010 and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency Commission Act 2009.
• Advised on data protection, information management compliance and data breaches, including on cross-jurisdictional privacy and data protection issues, issues related to financial services secrecy obligations and street level data collection.
• Advised on competition law issues including merger implications, the conduct of dawn raids and distribution agreements, and addressed issues related to price fixing, dominance and vertical restrictions.

Publications

• Global contributor – DataGuidance, the leading international publication for data protection and privacy legislation issues
• Co-Author, Annotated Statutes of Malaysia, the Consumer Protection Act 1999
• Author, Annotated Statutes of Malaysia, the Personal Data Protection Act 2010
• Contributor (Malaysia) – Getting the Deal Through, Telecoms and Media, 2014