Azmi & Associates

The firm: Azmi & Associates is a fully fledged Malaysian corporate and commercial law firm which has been actively involved in undertaking various legal assignments, including those involving mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas, energy, capital and debt markets, banking and finance transactions (both Islamic and conventional), intellectual property, civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, corporate conveyancing, compliance, aviation, shipping, maritime, logistics, employment and labour, restructuring and insolvency.

Clients range from small and medium enterprise companies to public listed companies and foreign multinationals. The firm is now in its second decade of service – having grown from 11 lawyers to its current strength of 83 lawyers, comprising 22 partners and 61 associates and assisted by an additional 27 trainee lawyers and 80 qualified and trained support personnel.

The firm is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and has branch offices in Johor Bahru and Penang. The firm has expanded to include a Chinadesk, comprising bilingual Mandarin-proficient lawyers. The team is diverse, multi-lingual, internationally trained with a modern outlook and proactive approach.

Azmi & Associates’ global reach is further enhanced by its other international alliances, among which is the TerraLex network comprising 21,000 lawyers across more than 186 jurisdictions and First Law International.

The strong support of clients for the innovative work and responsive service of the firm’s commercially savvy lawyers has earned the firm accolades and global recognitions on international legal directory listings and publications, such as Asian Legal Business, The Legal 500, Chambers Global and IFLR1000. The firm is ranked as the eighth largest law firm in Malaysia.

Areas of practice: Azmi & Associates’ starting point is the commercial goals set for each project.

The firm’s pragmatic and outcome-focused lawyers combine strong technical legal skills and sound industry experience with a commercial and innovative approach to clients’ business needs. The firm works closely with clients to assist in all legal aspects of projects, from simple transactions to large, complex development projects.

The firm understands issues from all perspectives, having advised and worked with major private and public sector clients across a wide range of business focuses. Among its significant clients are: developers, construction companies; leading financial institutions and firms, banks and lenders; investors and property agents; major multinational corporations; federal, state and local government bodies.

Azmi & Associates offers deep sector-specific knowledge and a wealth of experience to its clients, in the most cost-effective manner. By providing clients with lawyers equipped with great depth and breadth of industry experience, the firm is able to deliver seamless services quickly and efficiently while focusing on key commercial aspects of the deal and communicating effectively with clients.

Key areas of practice: mergers and acquisitions, Islamic banking, financial services and banking, capital and debt markets, venture capital/private equity, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, inbound and outbound investments, intellectual property, information technology, communication and media, data protection, pharmaceutical/life sciences, energy/renewable energy, oil and gas, mining and natural resources, real estate and property-related ventures, infrastructure, projects and concessions, construction, fundraising and debt restructuring, competition law, project finance, insurance, international trade, admiralty and shipping, transportation and logistics, employment and labour, industrial relations, wealth management/succession planning, trust/endowment, compliance, China-related works, aviation, anti-trust.