Kai Sheng is a dispute resolution lawyer focusing on corporate and commercial litigation. He is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kai Sheng litigates high-stakes, complex disputes across all levels of the Malaysian courts. His practice centers on matters involving winding up and corporate insolvency, shareholder rights, director duties, and commercial disputes.
Some of his notable matters:
- Defending a team of financial advisors in a claim of client solicitation by a competing financial planning firm.
- Representing a creditor in a fraudulent trading action against former shareholders and directors for siphoning off assets belonging to a company now in liquidation.
- Representing two companies and a company director in a judicial review action to quash the investigations commenced by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
- Successfully secured damages of RM36 million for a wrongful injunction which prevented the sale of company assets worth RM180 million.
- Successfully appealed against the High Court’s refusal of sanction for a scheme of arrangement involving more than 2000 purchasers of an abandoned development.
- Successfully represented a company in the exercise of lien over fully-paid shares to recover a shareholder’s debt.
- Successfully acted for a shareholder to compel a trustee to re-transfer shares held on trust.
- Successfully declared an estranged son a vexatious litigant.
- Successfully defended a group of companies against a conspiracy claim alleging dilution of a shareholder’s equity.
- Successfully defended a company against a RM 36 million claim alleging fraud and/or conspiracy.
- Successfully set aside an injunction restraining a majority shareholder from exercising his voting rights.
- Successfully obtained an injunction to restrain winding up proceedings against a listed company for a debt of approximately RM40 million.
- Successfully defended the right of commercial parcel owners to pay lower maintenance fees and sinking charges in a mixed-development project.
- Successfully defended a developer against a judicial review action brought by neighbourhood residents challenging the development project approved by DBKL.
- Successfully defended an application by an estranged son to declare the father a mentally disordered person.
Published cases:
1. [2021] MLRHU 2308
2. [2022] CLJU 116
3. [2022] CLJU 2539
4. [2023] CLJU 1007
5. [2023] CLJU 1293
6. [2023] CLJU 1816
7. [2023] 10 CLJ 16
8. [2024] 3 CLJ 177
9. [2024] CLJU 1431
10. [2024] CLJU 2236
11. [2024] CLJU 2237
12. [2025] CLJU 762
13. [2025] CLJU 794
14. [2025] CLJU 1035
15. [2025] CLJU 1044
16. [2025] CLJU 1068
17. [2025] CLJU 1069
18. [2025] CLJU 1070
19. [2025] CLJU 1315
20. [2025] CLJU 2286
21. [2025] CLJU 2047
22. [2025] MLJU 3226
23. [2025] MLJU 3225
24. [2025] MLJU 3692