Established in 1905, Shearn Delamore is one of the leading law firms in Malaysia. With over 100 lawyers and 280 staff, the firm has the resources to run and manage the most complex projects, transactions and matters. This includes co-ordinating and managing cross-border transactions together with the foreign and international law firms with whom we continuously work. By combining our diverse experience and interdisciplinary collaborations, we are able to provide a complementary range of skills.
The diplomatic relationship between Malaysia and Japan was established in 1957 and our countries enjoy warm bilateral relations ever since which continues to strengthen. Shearn Delamore’s Japan Desk has vast experience with Japanese clients and regularly advises Japanese businesses and conglomerates in various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, technology and more on a wide variety of legal matters. We are also a member of the Malaysia-Japan Economic Association (MAJECA).
Our Japan Desk is co-headed by Karen Abraham, Head of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and partner in our Technology, Media & Telco and Personal Data Protection & Privacy Laws Practice Groups and Irene Yong, partner in our Tax & Revenue, Personal Data Protection & Privacy Laws, and Technology, Media & Telco Practice Groups. Irene also speaks Japanese, having taken courses in the Japanese Language in Tokyo, Japan.
With our combination of experience, knowledge and expertise, we are ready to assist and support Japanese clients doing business in Malaysia or those looking to expand into the region.
Practice Areas:
We offer a broad range of services to meet your every need, which include:
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Competition Law & Antitrust
- Corporate/M&A
- Corporate Secretarial Services
- Dispute Resolution
- Employment & Administrative Law
- Energy, Natural Resources & Green Technology
- Engineering & Construction
- Environmental
- Financial Services
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Immigration
- Infrastructure & Projects
- Intellectual Property
- Investigation & Crisis Management
- Islamic Finance
- Medico-Legal
- Personal Data Protection & Privacy Laws
- Private Client & Family Business
- Real Estate
- Regulatory Compliance & Enforcement
- Shipping & Maritime
- Tax & Revenue
- Technology, Media & Telco
- Transportation
- China Desk
- India Desk
- Japan Desk
In 2019, co-head of our Japan Desk Karen Abraham was designated as the Malaysian Intellectual Property trainer for the Japanese Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), an association representing industries and users of the IP system with over 1,300 members in Japan. Karen was invited to conduct a series of lectures and trainings on the introduction to IP in Malaysia, IP in the ASEAN region, IP enforcement, IP statistics in Malaysia and patent protection in Malaysia to members of JIPA at the JIPA Kansai Office in Osaka on 30th September 2019.
In 2019, Karen Abraham also hosted a delegation from the Japanese Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) at our Shearn Delamore office in Kuala Lumpur. Shearn Delamore conducted a series of trainings for the visiting delegates on the legal landscape of copyright, trademarks, patents and industrial design in Malaysia. As part of the JIPA delegation’s visit to Kuala Lumpur, we also visited the IP legal team of Petronas at their offices where the Japanese delegation met the leaders of the Petronas legal department for a knowledge exchange meeting.
