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Qualifications & associations:
- LL.B (Hons) Cardiff University, U.K.
- Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) Malaysia
- Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya (2018)
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Sean Tan is a Principal Associate in the firm and an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. Sean’s corporate and commercial litigation practice primarily focusses on corporate insolvency and recovery, winding up proceedings, and judicial management proceedings involving multiple stakeholders.
He is also experienced in corporate disputes such as shareholder disputes, breaches of directors’ duties, and has acted for clients in highly contentious minority oppression actions. Sean has represented a broad range of clients across various industries, including both public and private companies, SMEs, shareholders, directors, liquidators as well as other private individuals.
Areas of Practice
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Dispute
- Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency
Publications
- The Corporate Voluntary Arrangement Scheme and How It Compares to Other Corporate Rescue Mechanisms, The Law Review, 2020
- Contributor for Woon & Hicks: The Companies Act of Malaysia – An Annotation (Issue 62 – Part III Management of Companies).
Team Members
- Acted for a minority shareholder of an electrical engineering company who was being frozen out he had helped to build and grow. Despite attempts by the client to settle the matter amicably, such efforts were initially futile as the majority shareholders delayed negotiations and refused to pay the client a fair value for his shareholding whilst continuing to shut our client out of the company’s business and profits. After litigation was initiated by the client to enforce a buyout, the majority shareholders finally agreed to a reasonable buy out of our client’s shares which reflected the value of his contributions to growing the company.
- Acted for several shareholders against a public listed company which brought an action against its shareholders under Section 360(1) of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007. The company had alleged that several shareholders were acting in concert to exercise control of the company even though investigations by the Securities Commission had yet to yield any findings in support of such allegations. The High Court agreed with our submission that the action brought by the company against the shareholders was premature.
- Acted for a rubber glove manufacturer which was embroiled in a complex shareholders’ dispute. During the course of the shareholders’ dispute, the company discovered that 2 individuals were wrongfully and/or unlawfully appointed as additional directors by a minority of the company’s directors who had no authority to do so. We successfully obtained an injunction on behalf of a company to prevent the said individuals who were wrongfully and/or unlawfully appointed from acting and/or holding themselves out as ‘directors’ of the company. Following the injunction, we also successfully assisted the company in removing the said individuals from the company’s register of directors.
- Re Ong Keh Keong; Ex-parte Pan Malaysian Enterprises Sdn Bhd (In Liquidation) [2022] 10 MLJ 435 [HIGH COURT]
- WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd v Lee Son Hong & Anor [2023] 5 AMR 218 [HIGH COURT]
- WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd v Dato’ Lee Son Hong [2023] 1 LNS 2148 [HIGH COURT]