A practical law firm
for business, people and difficult situations.
CORPORATE • COMMERCIAL • DISPUTE RESOLUTION • RESTRUCTURING
S QIN & PARTNERS | ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
ABOUT US
A firm built around structure, clarity
and practical judgment.
S Qin & Partners is a Malaysian law firm advising businesses, shareholders, investors and individuals on corporate, commercial and dispute-related matters.
Our work spans commercial agreements, transactions, legal systems, governance, disputes, restructuring, insolvency, property and estate matters. We aim to understand the decision behind the legal problem, explain the available options clearly and produce work that can be implemented in practice.
The work is not only about producing a document or taking a procedural step. It is about helping clients understand what they are trying to achieve, what may go wrong, and what structure is most workable in the circumstances.
Our approach
Legal advice should make the next decision easier.
Structure
We begin with the arrangement and the decision the client is trying to make.
Clarity
We explain difficult situations in
a way clients can use.
Practicality
Our work is designed to be implemented, not merely filed away.
HOW WE HELP
Legal work starts with the situation.
Clients do not usually come to us with a neat legal category. They come because a business is changing, a relationship is becoming difficult, money is at risk, or an important decision needs to be made.
We help clients make sense of the situation and then build the legal structure, documents or strategy needed to move forward.
Building or restructuring a business
Entity choices, governance, ownership, operating arrangements and legal systems.
Documenting a commercial relationship
Agreements that allocate responsibility, payment, risk, control and exit rights.
Responding to financial distress
Restructuring, insolvency, guarantees, creditor issues and business-continuation options.
Investing in or acquiring a business
Due diligence, transaction structure, consideration,
protections and implementation.
Managing disagreement or exposure
Negotiation, recovery, enforcement, shareholder and commercial disputes.
Putting legal systems in place
Repeatable processes for contracts, approvals,
people, procurement and recovery.
OUR PRACTICE
A connected practice for the life of a business.
Our practice areas are connected. A transaction may require governance documents. A dispute may reveal a weakness in a contract or operating process. A distressed business may require both urgent legal protection and a practical restructuring plan.
Corporate & commercial advisory
Corporate structuring, governance, directors and shareholders, contracts, employment and business operations.
Transactions, investments & structuring
Acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, project structures, financing arrangements and due diligence.
Dispute resolution & recovery
Commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, debt recovery, enforcement, negotiations, appeals and strategic litigation.
Restructuring & insolvency
Distressed companies, schemes, judicial management, winding-up, personal guarantees, refinancing and creditor strategy.
Property, wills & estates
Conveyancing, property arrangements, wills, probate and selected estate matters.
We also provide ongoing, systems-based legal support for businesses that need more than one-off advice.
LEGAL ARCHITECTURE
Making the legal side of the business work better.
Legal Architecture is our way of describing practical legal systems designed around how a business actually operates.
The aim is not to accumulate documents. It is to make the business more consistent in how it approves decisions, enters arrangements, manages obligations, handles people and responds to risk.
Agreement architecture
Designing the right agreement structure, risk allocation and decision points.
Business legal systems
Building repeatable processes for HR, procurement, sales, projects and governance.
Recovery systems
Creating debtor-ageing, escalation and bad-debt recovery processes.
Contract operating manuals
Turning contracts into usable instructions for the people who administer them.
Contract diagnosis
Identifying recurring weaknesses in existing arrangements before they become disputes.
The result should be clearer decisions, fewer avoidable gaps and legal work that supports day-to-day operations.
DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
When the situation is no longer routine.
Some matters require more than a document. They require a clear view of the options, the pressure points and the consequences of each move.
We advise and act in situations involving
The practical question
What is the client trying to preserve, achieve or avoid?
Our role is to help separate the legal position from the commercial decision, then advise on a course that is defensible and workable.
This may involve negotiation, restructuring, litigation, enforcement, settlement or a combination of these steps.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Representative experience.
The following examples are selected from matters handled or advised on by the firm’s lawyers. They are included to illustrate the range and nature of the firm’s work.
Energy & Infrastructure
Solar asset portfolio exceeding 3,400 kWp; nationwide solar rooftop installation project; rooftop leases, PPAs and project-level SPV structures; 10-year operations and maintenance arrangement for a solar plant in Brunei.
Restructuring & insolvency
Restructuring involving RCPS/RPS funding, preference shareholders, guarantees and creditor settlement; judicial management and interim judicial management applications; business continuation after winding-up and refinancing of distressed-company assets.
Technology & commercial systems
Restructuring of a bespoke CRM and business-management system, including scope, milestones, source-code ownership, testing, acceptance, deployment, handover and support.
Investments & acquisitions
Acquisition of the “Original Classic” brand valued at approximately RM100 million; acquisition of a RM21 million factory; private equity fund structure involving approximately RM10 million; investment and redemption arrangements involving approximately RM1.9 million.
Disputes & recovery
Share sale disputes involving allegations of secret profits, misrepresentation and directors’ obligations; commercial claims involving breach of contract, fraud and conspiracy; shareholder, property-management and debt-recovery disputes.
Governance & operations
Nominee shareholding and trust arrangements; contract structures for EPCC and technology businesses; employment, procurement, sales, licensing and operating arrangements.