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Wong & Partners member firm of Baker McKenzie International

Competition/Antitrust

Asia-Pacific Guide 2026 : Malaysia


Wong & Partners member firm of Baker McKenzie International

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About

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Our competition and antitrust team can help to ensure that your compliance strategies are seamlessly consistent and help you meet evolving local competition standards as well as disparate regulations abroad. Our team can provide competition counselling, competition compliance, leniency applications, cartel investigations and defence, and civil and criminal competition litigation.

We have expansive resources to help you effectively respond to dawn raids and cartel investigations, helping mitigate liabilities that can damage your business and reputation. When necessary, we can also bring to bear our extensive litigation experience to defend your business interests and staff before courts and regulators, as well as in private actions against anti-competitive activities. As a member firm of Baker McKenzie, we have a deep understanding of local legal and business issues, with the knowledge and insight across more than 65 antitrust jurisdictions, including the UK and Singapore, which Malaysia's competition legislation closely follows.

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Competition/Antitrust - Malaysia

Band 3

Band 3


What the Team is Known For

Wong & Partners' team of competition lawyers in Kuala Lumpur advises a range of major local and international clients on compliance in Malaysia. It provides clients with a range of services, including advice on contractual agreements, restructuring, compliance audits and merger control, across various industries. It ably handles antitrust-related matters including bid rigging and price fixing.

Strengths

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  • Their expertise, promptness and responsiveness distinguishes them.

    Competition/Antitrust respondentAsia-Pacific
  • Wong & Partners is well resourced, responsive and has good expertise in niche areas.

    Competition/Antitrust respondentAsia-Pacific

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 3Lydia Kong
    Band 3Lydia Kong

    Lydia Kong

    Lydia Kong continues to assist clients with competition and antitrust matters while advising corporate clients on the competition risks affecting potential and concluded transactions. She also advises clients on investigations by the Malaysia Competition Commission.

    • Lydia Kong is responsive and has great antitrust knowledge.

      Competition/Antitrust respondentAsia-Pacific

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