Nicola Tang Zhan Ying

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Corporate & Commercial Disputes

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Nicola Tang Zhan Ying

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Corporate & Commercial Disputes

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“Nicola is a versatile legal professional with expertise in civil fraud, corporate disputes, insolvency, and international arbitration, representing a broad spectrum of clients across diverse industries and jurisdictions.”

Nicola Tang Zhan Ying is a Partner in LHAG’s Corporate & Commercial Disputes Practice Group. Her practice focuses on civil fraud, fraudulent trading, directors’ duties, shareholder and boardroom disputes, asset recovery and contentious insolvency. She acts for private clients and corporations across a diverse range of industries, including investment holdings, construction, manufacturing, plantation, banking, automotive, education, insurance and healthcare. Her international clientele includes corporations from the United Kingdom, China and Japan.

Nicola works closely with accounting and forensic experts on financial reviews, data preservation and the analysis of imaged data. She also advises boards on governance responses to suspected misconduct and breaches of duty, including safeguarding evidence, reporting obligations and decision-making in high-risk situations. She regularly appears before all levels of the Malaysian Courts and represents clients in domestic and international commercial arbitration.

Beyond practice, Nicola is a trainer for the Malaysian Bar’s Advocacy Training Course, a contributor to Malaysian Civil Procedure and Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings, and regularly speaks at legal conferences and forums.

Nicola Tang Zhan Ying is a Partner in LHAG’s Corporate & Commercial Disputes Practice Group. Her practice focuses on civil fraud, fraudulent trading, directors’ duties, shareholder and boardroom disputes, asset recovery and contentious insolvency. She acts for private clients and corporations across a diverse range of industries, including investment holdings, construction, manufacturing, plantation, banking, automotive, education, insurance and healthcare. Her international clientele includes corporations from the United Kingdom, China and Japan.

Nicola works closely with accounting and forensic experts on financial reviews, data preservation and the analysis of imaged data. She also advises boards on governance responses to suspected misconduct and breaches of duty, including safeguarding evidence, reporting obligations and decision-making in high-risk situations. She regularly appears before all levels of the Malaysian Courts and represents clients in domestic and international commercial arbitration.

Beyond practice, Nicola is a trainer for the Malaysian Bar’s Advocacy Training Course, a contributor to Malaysian Civil Procedure and Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings, and regularly speaks at legal conferences and forums.

    • Commercial Litigation & Arbitration
    • Shareholder, Boardroom & Directors’ Duties Disputes
    • Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
    • Contentious Insolvency
    • Corporate Investigations

 

  • LLB (Hons), King’s College London
  • Bar Professional Training Course (BPP Law School)
  • Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple)
  • Advocate and Solicitors of the High Court of Malaya
  • Contributor, Bullen & Leake & Jacobs Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings, Sweet & Maxwell (2020, 2023)
  • Contributor, The Malaysian Civil Procedure, Sweet & Maxwell (2021)
  • Contributor, Restructuring and Insolvency: A Commentary, Sweet & Maxwell, April 2023)

Andrew has notable experience in the areas of banker’s liability, civil fraud, corporate insolvency and restructuring as well as money laundering. He acts for various financial institutions on financing obligations and security enforcement, involving conventional and Islamic financing, and asset recovery.

His experience in corporate and commercial disputes covers various business sectors, including energy, hospitality, logistics and plantation. He also acts for corporations on matters concerning fraud and breaches of fiduciary and fidelity by senior management and directors.

Clients have described him as a “sharp, skillful, knowledgeable articulator” and someone “who knows his work and produces really good arguments”. Andrew is a ranked practitioner by Chambers & Partners and Benchmark Litigation. Andrew was named “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2022 in the Commercial and Transactions category. Along with three other partners, he is ranked as a “Distinguished Practitioner” in Asialaw Profiles 2022. He was also ranked “Band 3” for Dispute Resolution in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022 rankings.

He is a contributor to a number of practitioner guides, such as the Law & Practice of Corporate Insolvency in Malaysia. He also frequently speaks, locally and overseas, on matters relating to his areas of practice.

Andrew is also a member of the Malaysian Bar Council’s Advocacy Training Committee. He conducts advocacy training not just in Malaysia, but also in other countries, having had stints in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa.

  • Banking Litigation & Insolvency
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Corporate Disputes
  • LLB (Hons), University of Leeds
  • Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple)
  • Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya

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