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 shareholder rights, director duties, corporate liquidation, and commercial transactions.
Kai Sheng holds an LL.B from the University of Malaya where he graduated first class. He was an avid mooter. He received many Best Oralist awards, outperforming participants from esteemed universities such as the University of Oxford, the University of Sydney, and the National University of Singapore.
Kai Sheng was also the vice director of the UM Constitutional Team, a student body established to uplift constitutional literacy and awareness amongst Malaysians.
There is a feature by the UM Law Review which sets out a lucid introduction of Kai Sheng’s accomplishments here.
Some of the notable matters Kai Sheng was involved in:
– Representing a team of financial advisors in defending against a claim of client solicitation by a competing financial planning firm.
– Representing a creditor in a fraudulent trading action against multiple parties, including a listed company, 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 defended a group of companies against a conspiracy claim alleging dilution of a shareholder’s equity. The collective assets of the companies were estimated to be in the region of RM 200 million.
– Successfully defended a company against a RM 36 million claim alleging fraud and/or conspiracy in the purported overpricing of factory lines.
– Successfully represented a majority shareholder in setting aside an injunction restraining the said shareholder from exercising his voting rights.
– Successfully represented a listed company in obtaining an injunction to restrain winding up proceedings on an aggregate debt equivalent to approximately RM40 million.
– Successfully defended the entitlement of a developer (who owned the shopping mall) and a car park owner to pay lower maintenance fees and sinking charges in a mixed-development project.
– Successfully represented a developer against a judicial review action brought by neighbourhood residents alleging that the development project approved by DBKL was illegal and unlawful.
– Successfully represented a former politician in resisting an application by an estranged son to declare the father a mentally disordered person under the Mental Health Act 2001.
List of Published Cases:
1. [2021] MLJU 2778
2. [2022] 1 LNS 116
3. [2022] 1 LNS 2539
4. [2023] 1 LNS 1007
5. [2023] 1 LNS 1293
6. [2023] 1 LNS 1816
7. [2023] 1 LNS 1901
8. [2024] 3 CLJ 177
9. [2024] CLJU 1431
10. [2024] CLJU 2236
11. [2024] CLJU 2237