Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill

Dispute Resolution

Partner (Banking & Insolvency, Receivership & Insolvency Practice, Corporate & Commercial, Disputes, Oil & Gas, Planning and Environment, Shipping).

Andrew has notable experience in the areas of banker’s liability, civil fraud, corporate insolvency, and restructuring, as well as money laundering. He acts for various financial institutions on financing obligations and security enforcement, involving conventional and Islamic financing, and asset recovery.

His experience in corporate and commercial disputes covers various business sectors, including energy, hospitality, logistics, and plantation. He also acts for corporations on matters concerning fraud and breaches of fiduciary and fidelity by senior management and directors.

Clients have described him as a “sharp, skillful, knowledgeable articulator” and someone “who knows his work and produces really good arguments”. Andrew is a Ranked Practitioner by Chambers & Partners and Benchmark Litigation. He is ranked as a “Litigation Star” for Commercial & Transactions in The Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2024, and a “Distinguished Practitioner” for Dispute Resolution in Asialaw Profiles 2023/2024. He is also ranked “Band 3” for Dispute Resolution in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024 rankings. Andrew has also been recently ranked as a “Leading Individual” for Dispute Resolution by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2024.

He is a contributor to a number of practitioner guides, such as the Law & Practice of Corporate Insolvency in Malaysia. He also frequently speaks, locally and overseas, on matters relating to his areas of practice.

Andrew is also a member of the Malaysian Bar Council’s Advocacy Training Committee. He conducts advocacy training not just in Malaysia, but also in other countries, having had stints in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa.

English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka

Multilaw, Asia-Pacific Region Coordinator, Dispute Resolution Bar Council of Malaysia, Advocacy Training Committee, Member Insolvency Practitioners Association of Malaysia, Member

LLB Hons (Hons), University of Leeds Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple) Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya