Rahmat Lim & Partners

Banking & Finance, Corporate & Commercial, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

Teong Sit is the Chairman and Senior Partner of the Firm. He is also a Partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore.

Teong Sit’s areas of practice encompass mergers and acquisitions and capital markets in Malaysia. His expertise also includes Islamic finance, structured finance and project finance. In his 30 years of practice, Teong Sit has acted as lead counsel in connection with many major corporate and financing transactions in Malaysia.

Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore Teong Sit was a Partner for more than 20 years in a leading Malaysian law firm where he headed the Financial Services practice group.

In 2010, Teong Sit was instrumental in the establishment of Rahmat Lim & Partners, an associate firm of Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore and has led Rahmat Lim & Partners, first as Managing Partner for the first six years and since then as Chairman and Senior Partner.

Teong Sit has written on various areas of corporate law including the Malaysian aspects of capital market transactions in International Investment Law, an MLR and Butterworth’s publication. Teong Sit has also edited a number of volumes of Malaysian Precedents & Forms published by Malayan Law Journal Sdn. Bhd.

Teong Sit is noted for his expertise in corporate/M&A work in leading legal publications such as IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific.

English and Bahasa Malaysia.

He is a member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.

Teong Sit graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree from the  National University of Singapore. He was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1984 and the Singaporean Bar in 2007.