Jack Yow
About
Provided by Jack Yow
Practice Areas
Employment, Health & Safety
International Arbitration
Litigation
Restructuring & Insolvency
Personal
Jack heads the Litigation practice at Rahmat Lim & Partners. His areas of practice include corporate, banking, industrial relations and employment law litigation. Jack’s extensive experience includes, among other things, acting for a local financial institution leading to recovery of a multi-million ringgit facility from a public listed company, obtaining a favourable AIAC arbitration award for the Malaysian subsidiary of a public listed German company in a multi-million USD contractual dispute, acting in a judicial review application and obtaining a declaration and an order of mandamus compelling a local authority to issue a certificate of fitness and occupation for a shopping mall, acting on behalf of a multinational company in the successful suit of its former chief executive officer for negligence and breach of directors’ duties, and advising receivers and managers of companies in receivership as well as acting for liquidators in insolvency proceedings.
Jack is consistently recognised by legal publications including Chambers Asia-Pacific for his professionalism. The publication noted him as being "very professional, ethical and really humble” and he is praised for his “excellent communication skills with an ability to articulate cases in detail, whilst explaining legal jargon”.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Jack Yow is a partner at Rahmat Lim & Partners in Kuala Lumpur. He frequently represents clients in the Industrial Court relating to unfair dismissal claims and retrenchment issues.
Jack Yow is adept at handling commercial cases, frequently acting on director, shareholder and banking disputes, among other matters. He also handles contentious estate matters in Malaysia.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jack is a very seasoned employment lawyer and experienced litigator who is commercially savvy yet able to tackle the human element when it comes to labour disputes."
"He is very strong in his understanding of the landscape. His ability is extremely strong in the process of finding and winning or resolving disputes working through the public court system."
"Jack is a very seasoned employment lawyer and experienced litigator who is commercially savvy yet able to tackle the human element when it comes to labour disputes."
"He is very strong in his understanding of the landscape. His ability is extremely strong in the process of finding and winning or resolving disputes working through the public court system."