Shearn Delamore & Co.
Established in 1905, Shearn Delamore & Co. is one of the leading law firms in Malaysia. With over 100 lawyers and 230 staff, the firm has the resources to run and manage the most complex projects, transactions and matters. This would include co-ordinating and managing cross-border transactions together with the foreign and international law firms with whom we continuously work with. By combining our diverse experience and interdisciplinary collaborations, we are able to provide a complementary range of skills.
The firm maintains extensive global network links with foreign law firms and multilateral agencies, including the World Law Group (WLG), the World Services Group (WSG) and the Employment Law Alliance (ELA). Shearn Delamore & Co. formed an alliance with Drew & Napier LLC from Singapore, Martinez Vergara & Gonzalez Sociedad from the Philippines, Makarim & Taira S. from Indonesia, and Tilleke & Gibbins from Thailand to launch a legal network named Drew Network Asia (DNA). DNA is a ‘firm of firms’ that operates as a united collective, bringing both international perspectives and local expertise to the table.
Irene Yong
Phone: +603 2027 2923
Email: irene.yong@shearndelamore.com
Irene practices in all aspects of Tax and Revenue law advisory, structuring, planning, audits, investigations, dispute resolution (including advising taxpayers on the settlement of tax cases or in dealings with governmental authorities) and litigation (including tax appeals, declaratory proceedings, judicial review applications, civil suits, windings up etc.), sales tax, service tax, goods and services tax (GST), transfer pricing, income tax, real property gains tax, indirect taxes, stamp duty, taxation of oil and gas companies, tax incentives, trusts, and asset protection and planning. Irene has appeared as counsel for taxpayers before the GST Appeal Tribunal, the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and the Superior Courts of Malaysia.
Irene also practises in the area of personal data protection & privacy laws, and provides information and data management strategies and solutions, business practice and process reviews, as well as template and document reviews for business enterprises. She has advised and conducted reviews and audits for various business enterprises, including financial institutions. She has presented many papers on personal data protection law and regularly conducts training and workshops for clients and event organisers.
Janet Toh Yoong San
Phone: +603 2027 2978
Email: janet.toh@shearndelamore.com
Janet Toh has close to 20 years’ experience in intellectual property and technology related legal matters. Janet Toh represents clients in a variety of intellectual property (IP) and technology matters ranging from IP protection and ownership, advertising, consumer protection, domain names, e-commerce, franchise, gaming, regulatory approvals for food, cosmetics and drugs to telecommunications. She regularly represents clients in a range of technology and commercial transactions, including collaboration, outsourcing, development and licensing of hardware, software and IT systems for users of IT within the software, retail, media, consumer products, financial services, telecommunications and a broad range of other industries.
She also advises a broad range of clients on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity issues. Janet’s practice also includes representing companies in connection with the IP due diligence review in the context of licensing, mergers and acquisitions projects and commercial corporation transactions.