Band 5
Provided by Hooi Huang Ng
Dispute Resolution
Banking & Finance Litigation
General & Civil Litigation
Private Clients
Hooi Huang was called to the Malaysian Bar in 2004. She is one of the four founding members of the firm.
Hooi Huang is a highly regarded litigator with a distinguished niche in corporate insolvency and restructuring. Known for her technical precision and strategic advocacy, she is frequently appointed as counsel in high-profile disputes and precedent-setting cases within the Malaysian legal landscape. With a practice built on deep institutional knowledge, Hooi Huang provides comprehensive representation for financial institutions and multinational corporations, balancing aggressive recovery strategies with a sophisticated defence against complex contractual disputes and/or tortious claims.
Hooi Huang’s areas of practice cover corporate and commercial litigation including recovery and enforcement of security (including vessel arrest and sale, and asset tracing), receivership, corporate insolvency or liquidation, bankruptcy, restructuring of debts and corporate rescue mechanism (i.e., schemes of arrangements and judicial management), contractual (including IT contracts), probate and estate disputes, tortious claims and land disputes. Hooi Huang has in-depth knowledge of the banking sector where she advises and represents financial institutions in high-value debt recovery actions (both conventional loan and Islamic finance), and also in defending actions brought against financial institutions and corporations including claim for negligence, conspiracy, fraud, breach of trust and breach of fiduciary and/or statutory duties.
Over the years, Hooi Huang has developed a niche practice in corporate insolvency and restructuring where she is frequently consulted and has appeared as counsel in various high-profile, precedent-setting and notable cases within the Malaysian legal landscape.
Hooi Huang combines a rigorous academic approach with a practical, client-centric focus. Her ability to navigate the nuances of both the courtroom and the boardroom makes her an invaluable asset for clients facing high-stakes financial or corporate crises.
Apart from her active legal practice, Hooi Huang is often invited to speak at international conferences, conduct training, workshops and seminars in different languages (English, Malay and Chinese) for financial institutions and corporations, and conducted inhouse talks to train lawyers on, among others, their soft skills such as clients’ consultation and clients’ management.
Co-author - Injunctions in Relation to Receivers and Managers, Liquidators and Officers of the Court, the Law and Practice of Injunctions in Malaysia published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2020.
Contributor - Atkin Court Forms Malaysia (Negligence) in 2025.
Member of the Malaysian Bar
Member of INSOL International
Member of International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) - Malaysia Network
Acted as the counsel for three financial institutions before the Federal Court in proceedings stemming from a company’s liquidation, in which a minority creditor and former auditor contested the release and discharge of the outgoing liquidator and the appointment of a new liquidator in his place.
Acting as lead counsel for a financial institution as the lead counsel in a dispute with the joint management body of a mixed development project, where the Federal Court is set to deliberate and decide on several novel points of law.
Advised and acted as counsel for one of the largest financial institutions in Malaysia and successfully secured an ex parte order for the appointment of an Interim Judicial Manager over a financially distressed company, pending the disposal of the judicial management application. Rare instance at that time, of Malaysian courts granting such order on an ex parte basis upon the application of a creditor.
English
Malay
Chinese (eg. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and Teochew)
Provided by Chambers
Hooi Huang Ng is a partner at Shook Lin & Bok. She has experience advising clients on disputes pertaining to liquidations and Islamic finance.
Provided by Chambers
She has sharp analytical skills combined with a pragmatic approach to risk assessment.
She makes complex matters simple, provides creative solutions taking into account the commercial aspects of the engagements and has very good technical skills in litigation and insolvency matters.
She has sharp analytical skills combined with a pragmatic approach to risk assessment.
She makes complex matters simple, provides creative solutions taking into account the commercial aspects of the engagements and has very good technical skills in litigation and insolvency matters.