The Firm
1st July 1999, marked our tryst with destiny.
For nearly 25 years and counting it has been a marvelous and an audacious journey. The faces, the places, the people, the transactions, the disputes, the colleagues at the Bar, the opponents – all of them, the good and bad had given us such a burst of colour and the constant rush of excitement.
Looking back it was late in the evening, but it still feels like yesterday that Cindy Lim and I selected an office on the 17th Floor of Plaza 138. The Petronas Twin Towers were barely complete. The world was on the threshold of a new Millenia, our nation and the region were in the aftermath of the 1997economic crisis. We made a bold new start.
On 1st April 2005 we moved to Wisma Genting, Jalan Sultan Ismail – the financial heart of Kuala Lumpur. It was home for 12 memorable years. In this time our practice transformed and regionalized. Global alliances were built and our cross border practice took root. 2016 saw our migration to Q Sentral, an MSC Status Building nestled within KL’s modern transportation hub. Our offices gazed over the lush Royal Lake Gardens and the Houses of Parliament. It was the place to build into the next horizon.
We are today a strong and credible boutique practice with a growing regional presence in Singapore, London, China, Dubai and Indonesia. The strategic ties we built over the years had bloomed into deep and meaningful alliances.
We are proud to host an influential client base of leading Malaysian companies, MNCs, PLCs, public institutions and statutory bodies in almost every sector of the economy.
We diversified and grew from our traditional practice in employment, industrial and public law, far beyond our expectations. In the years that followed we saw through successful endeavors in a wide and unimaginable sphere, ranging from the largest of infrastructure projects, board room tussles, acquisitions and mergers, industrial disputes, defamation proceedings and various other topical issues of our time- we were there.
We look forward with hope and determined ambition and we reminiscence with immense gratitude the people and the clientele who have been with us – I thank you all, for the faith and trust that you have placed in us. To all our prospective employees, partners and clients we remain committed to exceeding our best and we welcome you to share the future with us.
RUTHERAN SIVAGNANAM
Managing Partner