MANAGING PARTNER
Ong Eu Jin
Eu Jin is the Managing Partner of the firm. Eu Jin is active in the capital markets sector and has advised companies which have successfully listed and completed their IPOs on the Main Market, ACE Market and Leap Market of the Malaysian Stock Exchange. Aside from Malaysian IPOs, he has also acted as the Malaysian legal counsel for Malaysian companies seeking listing on the stock exchange of Hong Kong and Singapore respectively. On the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) front, he has advised on a number of multi-million-ringgit acquisitions in respect of both listed and unlisted companies as well as mandatory and voluntary general offers pursuant to the Malaysian Code on Take-Overs and Mergers.
As part of his debt capital markets practice, Eu Jin has advised on serial bond issuances and commercial paper/medium term note programmes as well as various Sukuk issuances under the Shariah principles of Mudharabah, Ijarah and Murabahah. Notably, Eu Jin was the Malaysian counsel for the issuance of Samurai bonds in the aggregate principal amount of ¥200 billion by the Government of Malaysia in 2019. As a banking and financial services practitioner, he has advised Malaysian financial institutions on some of the largest bilateral and syndicated financing transactions. Eu Jin has also acted as Malaysian legal counsel for financial institutions in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Eu Jin commenced his legal career as a litigation lawyer. He was thereafter appointed as the CEO and executive director of a subsidiary of a financial services group for 7 years before returning to the legal profession as a corporate lawyer. He has been appointed as director (both executive and independent non-executive) of companies regulated by the Securities Commission Malaysia.
He is presently the Chairperson of the Banking & Finance Committee of LAWASIA, an international organisation of lawyers. He also previously served on the Board of the Financial Planning Association of Malaysia as its Honorary Secretary.
Eu Jin is also a qualified certified financial planner with 3 finance bestsellers under his belt. He has written for publications such as The Edge Malaysia and New Straits Times and was a speaker at seminars organised at the Securities Commission Malaysia and the Malaysian Stock Exchange. Eu Jin was a panellist at law conferences held in Dubai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Siem Reap, Manila, Colombo and Bengaluru.
Qualifications
- LLM (International Banking and Finance), University College London
- MBA, Edinburgh Business School
- LLB (Hons), University of West London
- Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
- Solicitor, Supreme Court of England & Wales
Languages
- English
- Cantonese
- Malay