Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill is delighted to announce the promotion of six Associates to Senior Associates, effective 1 January 2026. Their dedication, talent, and energy have made a meaningful impact at LHAG, and this promotion recognises their contributions and commitment to excellence.

We look forward to their continued growth and the important role they will play in supporting our clients and driving the Firm’s ongoing success.

Chew Sue Peng – Dispute Resolution I Restructuring and Insolvency

Sue works with Partner Mong Chung Seng in the Firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group.

Sue has extensive experience in contentious winding-up proceedings and regularly acts for liquidators in a wide range of disputes such as termination of winding-up proceedings and challenges to liquidators’ conduct and duties. Sue also has experience in banking and finance litigation, including recovery and enforcement proceedings, as well as contractual disputes. She regularly appears before all tiers of the Malaysian Courts in the conduct of trials, hearings, and appeals.

Sue is a contributor to Malaysian Civil Procedure (White Book) (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2024) and Restructuring and Insolvency: A Commentary (2023).

She read law at the University of Manchester and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2020, before being admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2021.

Colin Yoong Shern Zian – Corporate & Commercial Disputes | Commercial Arbitration

Colin works with Partner Andrew Chiew Ean Vooi on a wide range of complex corporate and commercial disputes. He regularly acts for major financial institutions, government-linked companies and prominent private individuals.

His practice focuses on civil fraud, banking litigation, shareholder and governance disputes, moneylending matters and commercial arbitration. He has experience appearing at all levels of the Malaysian Courts, as well as in both international and domestic arbitrations.

Colin is also a contributor to Restructuring and Insolvency: A Commentary (Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters, 2023).

Colin read law at the University of Bristol. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2020, and admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2021.

Lim Jun Xian – Banking & Insolvency | Corporate and Commercial Disputes | Capital Markets & Securities Law  

Jun Xian is a Senior Associate in the firm’s highly ranked Dispute Resolution Practice, specialising in banking and insolvency law as well as corporate and commercial disputes. He works with Partners, Lambert Rasa-Ratnam and Chia Oh Sheng in advising and representing clients in complex commercial disputes and arbitration. He regularly advises regulatory bodies on matters concerning administrative law, capital markets and securities law, and the recovery of penalties.

Jun Xian further advises Chinese state-owned enterprises and local SMEs on matters involving debt recovery, insolvency, as well as corporate and commercial disputes. Proficient in spoken and written Mandarin, as well as Hokkien and Cantonese, he works directly with Mandarin-speaking clients and regularly provides clear, practical legal advice in Mandarin. He also liaises closely with lawyers from PRC law firms to assist clients on cross-border enforcement matters involving Malaysia.

He is a contributor to the Bullen & Leake & Jacobs’s Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings 3rd Edition (Thomson Reuters) and Malaysian Civil Procedure (White Book) 2024 Edition.

Jun Xian graduated with an LLB (Hons) from the University of London and was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) in 2020. He was subsequently admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in November 2021.

Michelle Louis – Banking & Insolvency 

Michelle Louis works with Partners, Kumar Kanagasingam and Wong Han Wey in the Firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Her practice focuses on banking, insolvency and financial services disputes. She also regularly represents financial institutions, government-linked entities and statutory bodies in complex recovery actions, lender liability disputes, insolvency proceedings and high-value commercial litigation at both trial and appellate levels.

Michelle is a contributor to Malaysia Civil Procedure (2024) published by Sweet and Maxwell.

She read law at the University of Liverpool and was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of Middle Temple in 2019. She was subsequently admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2020.

Preveena Ravindra Kumar – Real Estate Disputes 

Preveena works with Partner Ho Ai Ting on complex real estate and land-related disputes, with particular expertise in compulsory land acquisition. She regularly acts for affected landowners, acquiring agencies, and paymasters in complex and high-value disputes, and also has experience handling commercial litigation for prominent developers. Her corporate litigation experience includes debt recovery, having represented both creditors and debtors across all stages of the recovery process.

In terms of publications, Preveena updated Sections 221 to 240 of the National Land Code in Issue 80 of the Annotated Statutes of Malaysia, and more recently contributed to the update of the Distress chapter in Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia.

Preveena read law at the University of Leeds and was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple) in 2019. She was subsequently admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2020.

Wong Lien Taa – Employment & Industrial Relations

Lien Taa works with Partner, Amardeep Singh Toor, specialising in employment, industrial relations, and immigration law, encompassing both litigation and advisory matters.

He regularly appears before the Industrial Court defending employers in unjust dismissal and trade dispute claims, and represents multinational institutions in the Industrial Court and the High Court in claims brought by former senior management. He also has extensive experience in trade union litigation, including complex trade disputes.

His advisory practice covers all areas of employment and industrial relations law, including retrenchment and reorganisation exercises, transfers, senior management restructuring, voluntary and mutual separation schemes, misconduct and disciplinary proceedings, determination of employment relationships, performance management, and the review and development of employment documentation and policies. He further advises corporate clients on Malaysian immigration laws, the management of foreign workers and expatriates, and employment-related tax matters.

Lien Taa has contributed to the Industrial Law Reports published by The Malaysian Current Law Journal on issues relating to compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in the workplace. He has also been recognised in Benchmark Litigation for his detailed and thorough approach in preparing court matters.

He read law at the University of Bristol, was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2020, and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2021.

7 January 2026