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”.