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MLC Corporate law session to discuss corporate governance and recent legislative amendments PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Syirin Junisya Mohd Ali (Executive Officer)   
Monday, 09 July 2007 08:40am

Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil KUALA LUMPUR, Mon: Three speakers will discuss issues of corporate governance and recent amendments to the Companies Act 1965 in the Corporate law session at the October Malaysian Law Conference.

They are the Chief Executive Officer of Companies Commission of Malaysia, Encik Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil and senior lawyers, Michael Lim Hee Kiang and Datuk Loh Siew Cheang.

Abdul Karim’s public service career encompassed senior positions such as Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Chambers, Senior Federal Counsel at the Department of Inland Revenue Malaysia (now known as the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia), Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Attorney General’s Chambers in Penang and Perlis as well as Sessions Court Judge in Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur and Melaka.

Abdul Karim was also the Head of the Appeals Unit at the Prosecution Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers at the end of 2000. In 2001, he was appointed Director of the Enforcement Division at the Securities Commission, and subsequently as Director of the Enforcement and Legal Division at the Anti-Corruption Agency between 1 May 2004 and 31 October 2005.

Abdul Karim is also a board member of the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority (LOFSA) as well as a member of the Foreign Investment Committee (FIC) and the Financial Reporting Foundation.

Michael Lim is an Advocate and Solicitor practising with Messrs. Shearn Delamore & Co., Kuala Lumpur. He has been a partner of the firm for the last 29 years. He obtained his LLB (Hons) in 1972 and LLM with Distinction from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 1973. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New Zealand in l973. On returning to Malaysia, in l974 he was admitted to the High Court, Sarawak and Brunei and subsequently to the High Court of Malaya in 1978. He was the first Malaysian Barrister & Solicitor from New Zealand to be admitted to the High Court of Malaya, West Malaysia. Lim was a lecturer at the Law Faculty, University of Malaya for three years from l975 - l977. He practises in the area of the company law in which he is involved in corporate advisory work, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments and company restructurings.

Lim has contributed to law journals and has also co-authored “Current Developments in International Banking and Corporate Finance Operations: An Asean Overview: Malaysia – Butterworths” in the late eighties, the Malaysian Chapter of the World Law Group “Handbook on International Business Acquisitions”, Chap. 2, 2nd Edition, Kluwer Law International in 2000, authored the Malaysian Chapter of “Getting The Deal Through – Mergers & Acquisitions” 2003, co-authored the Malaysian Chapter of “the International Comparative Legal Guide to Merger Control” 2005 published by Global Legal Group.

He presently sits on the board of Selangor Properties Berhad, Dijaya Corporation Berhad, DKSH Holdings (Malaysia) Berhad, Paragon Union Berhad, Major Team Holdings Berhad, Wawasan TKH Berhad as well as various private limited companies He was a Director of Perwira Habib Bank Bhd., from 1989 to 1991 and was a Director of Renong Berhad, Time dotCom Berhad, The North Borneo Timbers Berhad, Pengkalen Industrial Holdings Berhad, Golden Plus Holdings Berhad, Kimara Capital Berhad, Roxy Electric Industries (M) Berhad and Pantai Holdings Berhad.

Datuk Loh is the Managing Partner of Messrs Cheang & Ariff, Kuala Lumpur. He obtained his LL.B (Hons) from the University of Malaya and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya on 23 February 1978. His specific areas of practice are Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Corporate and Regulatory Laws.

His legal publications include Corporate Powers – Controls, Remedies and Decision making (1996); Corporate Powers – Accountability (Second Edition) 2002 and Company Law: Powers and Accountability (HK 2003) which he co-authored with William Wong.

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