JHJ has extensive experience in general corporate, business and finance matters. Our team has assisted clients on various matters from initial setting up, public listing and privatisation exercises, and resolution of commercial and trade issues, to mergers and acquisitions, winding-up, and corporate restructuring. We enjoy significant market recognition for our innovative solutions and sound technical expertise and is experienced in helping businesses of all sizes, ranging from startups and SMEs to government-linked companies and multinational corporations. The hallmark of our service is a high level of personal attention in all that we do.
Corporate & Securities
We provide advice to public and private companies on matters pertinent to securities offerings and disclosure issues; corporate control and take-over concerns; reorganizations, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings; listing requirements and equity and debt financing. Our team is regularly engaged to assist public and non-public corporations on shareholder-rights matters, including issues related to tenders, proxies and hostile takeovers.
We have recently been involved in a major exercise to standardize the tender documentation process for the corporate arm of the Government’s railway services. Our team was also engaged by the Selangor State Government’s water management division to advise on various corporate matters including the listing exercise of their corporate arm.
Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (SME)
We provide a full range of business services to SMEs. Our lawyers act as advisors to businesses, delivering high-quality legal work within a fee range that is accessible to middle market companies. Having advised SMEs for over a decade, we have tailored our services to meet the expediency and cost effectiveness required by our SME clients.
Our wide range of SME related legal services include conceptualizing a business model for a proposed all-encompassing education city in Malaysia (KL Education City) with foreign stakeholders. We actively participated in all stages of the SME project, from the negotiations stage, to the drafting and preparation of relevant documentations, and finally to the procurement of project endorsement from relevant government agencies.
Mergers and Acquisition
We assist our clients in all aspects of a merger and acquisition exercise, from corporate structuring and commercial negotiations to the drafting and preparation of relevant documentation. We also provide cost-effective due diligence and support our clients through our relationship with investment banking and financing communities.
Our clients include government contractors, technology companies, telecommunications companies, healthcare firms, automobile, utility, transportation and energy companies, professional service entities, manufacturers, banks and bank holding companies, service and leasing companies, savings and loan institutions, construction companies and many more.
Finance
We advise on a wide range of commerce and trade matters involving retail and institutional funds, public and private equities, bonds, real estates, conventional and Islamic financing, and asset financing. We are often engaged to assist in and advise on high-value complex transactions, many a times involving several layers of financing and legal structures.