Knowledge and Advisory

Introduction
Focus Area
Team

The considerable expertise of our solicitors in the knowledge sector roots from our experience in advising education facilities on matters relevant to licensing, corporate entity formation, joint ventures, twinning agreements, real estate matters, project financing, leasing and obtaining the requisite approval or permission.

Our broad experience in all aspects of education industry provides the full complement of legal services necessary for institution and related businesses to operate in this highly complex and litigious environment. JHJ has an additional advantage in this area given that some of us are also tutors and lectures in law schools and have a personal insight on the day to day running of the business of education. Our personal insight in the industry allows us to spot any potential issues as well as make suggestions for an improved business model and long term sustainability.

Start Ups

Our most notable experience is our involvement in the Kuala Lumpur Education City project which was launched and

approved by the Malaysian Government via both the Prime Ministers' Department and the Ministry of Higher Education in 2007 as a private-led project aimed at achieving Malaysia' aim to be a regional hub for higher education.

Our expertise in collaboration, joint-ventures, and other forms of partnership was crucial in ensuring that the rights of all parties are clearly set out, protected and not in conflict. Franchising and patenting also comes within our area of expertise and we are able to help where clients who have a unique teaching method want to secure the rights to their own method or to pioneer a method brought from overseas.

Finance

The team has a broad-ranging practice and regularly advises on retail and institutional funds, onshore, offshore, open and closed ended, investing in equities, bonds, real estate and alternative classes, including private equity. They include the following as well:

Financing and operating leases, including contract-hire leasing and hire purchase facilities, and related residual value arrangements

Loan finance, including limited recourse loan structures, discounted receivable purchase structures, securitization of receivables, and other such forms of financing in the context of leasing related transactions.

Vendor leasing programs particularly with lessors and their customers in the computer industry in relation to both hardware and software

Advising providers and users of asset finance on all aspects of their business, including licensing, maintenance, procurement, regulatory and competition matters

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management (KM) is quickly becoming an important in the running of any business and is of particular importance to the knowledge and education industry. It is becoming crucial to generate and nurture the flow of shared information as an aid to making key decisions, particularly so in the education industry where modern educational methods are facilitated by online teaching aids, virtual learning environments, and the dissemination of information and knowledge to students online. Knowledge is a strategic asset which JHJ knows how to manage.

Knowledge and Advisory

Start Ups

Finance

Knowledge Management

Jayadeep Bhanudevan

Harikanan Ragavan