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Wan Kai Chee

Wan Kai Chee

Work Department

Capital Markets, FinTech, Investment Funds, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Real Estate Investment Trusts, Regulatory & Compliance

Position

Kai Chee is a Partner and Head of the Firm’s Financial Services Department.

Career

Kai Chee’s areas of expertise span capital markets, investment funds, private equity, fintech, and mergers and acquisitions.

He has been involved in mergers, restructurings, schemes of arrangement and vestings, capital reductions, initial public offerings, take-overs, acquisitions, and other corporate exercises.

He has experience in cross-border and domestic transactions, and also advises on foreign direct investment into Malaysia, joint venture/shareholder arrangements, various commercial contracts, company and securities laws, fund and collective investment scheme formation, and Labuan and insurance laws. Listings he has worked on include the establishment of real estate investment trusts (REITs), and listings in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and London.

Kai Chee is recognised as Highly Regarded in Capital Markets by IFLR1000.

He was a partner with another large Malaysian law firm before joining Rahmat Lim & Partners in 2011.

Languages

English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Education

Kai Chee graduated with an LL.B. (Hons) degree from King's College London in 1996. He is a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1998 and the Singaporean Bar in 2002.

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