Owee & Co

Malaysia

Review

Dispute resolution

Owee & Co is a specialist dispute resolution firm, focused on high-value, complex corporate and commercial disputes, civil and commercial fraud, and professional negligence. Its clients span multinationals and listed companies to high-net-worth individuals.

Partner Owee Chia Ming helms the firm’s disputes group.

In commercial and transactions, the team successfully represented the founder of a company in the fitness industry in opposing a minority oppression claim over the issuance of shares in the company which was alleged to be in breach of the pre-emption rights of a shareholder.

In another commercial dispute, the team is currently acting for several substantial contributories of a wound-up public company in the real estate development sector in large disputes over the distribution of surplus assets between three wound-up companies that have cross shareholdings, and ratification of the proposed remuneration of a former liquidator of the company that the firm had successfully removed.

Details of clients the firm has advised on during the research period remain confidential.