Pang Huey Lynn

Senior Associate

Lynn is a corporate and commercial litigator. She has been active in restructuring and insolvency work, corporate disputes, and fraud and asset recovery matters.

In the field of restructuring and insolvency, she has acted in schemes of arrangement, securing restraining orders and obtaining sanction for various schemes. She acts for liquidators and advises on various liquidation related disputes. She has acted for the judicial manager of the subsidiaries of a public listed company.

She is currently also involved in various high-profile fraud and asset recovery matters. She was the junior counsel in obtaining Malaysia’s first-ever ‘persons unknown’ injunction in a matter involving a push payment fraud.

She obtained her BA Law from the University of Cambridge and is a Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn). She joined Lim Chee Wee Partnership shortly after the firm was established in 2020.

Key Practice Areas

Restructuring and Insolvency
  • Acting for the liquidator and advising on the liquidation of the widely reported Serba Dinamik Group of companies.
  • Acting as junior counsel in ongoing proceedings to oppose an application to remove the liquidator of a delisted public-listed confectionary company.
  • Acted as junior counsel for the public-listed Top Builders Capital Bhd (formerly Ikhmas Jaya Group Bhd) and its two subsidiaries ain its scheme of arrangement and restraining order proceedings, including opposing applications for leave to proceed against the company under a restraining order. The scheme has been sanctioned by the Court (see: Re Top Builders Capital Bhd & Ors [2021] 10 MLJ 327).
  • Acting as junior counsel for Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary within the Boustead Group, in its scheme of arrangement application.
  • Acting as junior counsel for public-listed Alam Maritim Resources Berhad and its subsidiary in the schemes of arrangement and restraining order proceedings. The scheme has been sanctioned by the Court.
  • Acted as junior counsel for the judicial manager of three subsidiaries of a public-listed oil and gas company. Successfully applied to strike out a suit against the judicial manager commenced without leave of the judicial management Court (see: Demeter O&G Supplies Sdn Bhd v Datuk Stephen Duar Tuan Kiat (as judicial manager of Scomi Oiltools Sdn Bhd and Scomi KMC Sdn Bhd) [2022] 9 MLJ 960).
  • Assisted counsel for Prestariang SKIN Sdn Bhd, the subsidiary of the public-listed Prestariang Group Bhd,the subsidiary of the public-listed Prestariang Group Bhd, in its first and second schemes of arrangement. Both schemes have been sanctioned by the court.
Fraud and Asset Recovery
  • Acting as junior counsel in various civil claims against professionals facilitating the fraudulent misappropriation of over US$1 billion from a sovereign wealth fund masterminded by an infamous international fugitive indicted by the US Department of Justice on behest of a former public official facing criminal conviction.
  • Acting as junior counsel in a civil suit and in the application for Mareva freezing injunctions by a bank against its former senior officer and numerous other defendants for the fraudulent misappropriation of a RM400 million loan to finance a RM1.3 billion telecommunications project.
  • Acting as junior counsel for a German chemicals company in securing Malaysia’s first-ever persons unknown injunction in the form of a Mareva freezing injunction and the first known proprietary injunction in Malaysia, against unknown fraudsters. The court also allowed substituted service of court papers by way of email and a Dropbox link (see: Zschimmer & Schawrz GmbH & Co KG Chemische Fabriken v Persons Unknown & Anor [2021] 7 MLJ 178).
  • Subsequently, acted as junior counsel to secure Malaysia’s first-ever self-identification order against the persons unknown (see Zschimmer & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG Chemische Fabriken v Persons Unknown & Anor (No 2) [2021] 3 CLJ 587).
Commercial Litigation
  • Acting as junior counsel for a company in obtaining leave for judicial review against the Government of Malaysia and a minister’s decision, and in successfully opposing the appeal against the High Court’s decision to grant leave to proceed with judicial review proceedings(see Dhaya Maju LTAT Sdn Bhd v Kerajaan Malaysia & Anor [2021] MLJU 1149).
  • Acting as junior counsel in successfully setting aside an award for an interim measure for payment of security for costs on grounds of incompatibility with the powers conferred upon the court under the provisions of the Arbitration Act 2005 (see: CRCC Malaysia Bhd v DSG Projects Malaysia Sdn Bhd [2023] 9 MLJ 713).
Qualifications and Professional Affiliations
Qualifications
  • MA, University of Cambridge (2023)
    • Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2020)
    • Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) (2019)
    • BA Law, University of Cambridge (2018)

    Professional Affiliations

    • INSOL Future Leaders Programme (2024)
    Publications and Talks
    • Speaker, CLJ Webinar on Rescuing Distressed Corporates – The Changing Restructuring Landscape (2021).
    • Speaker, Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee, Year 2021 in Review – #2 Restructuring and insolvency Cases (2021).