Xian & Co. has been helping businesses with the full range of commercial legal services over the years. Our success reflects our unique approach to service delivery and the relationship of trust we build with our clients. If you are looking for a new legal advisor, or have never used a lawyer before, you have come to the right place.
Our clients can count on us for personal legal and business advice across their business. From strict real estate law and property law, to human resources, standard form contract and documentation review and revision, to the complicated issues surrounding real estate and drafting of Will and probate administration. In the unfortunate event that a dispute threatens, we have the expertise to provide practical legal advice to ensure the best outcome possible.
At Xian & Co., our lawyers want to partner with you to keep you clear of legal issues and add value to your life and business. We take the time to get to know you so that any legal advice we provide reflects your business goals and personal goals.
Our job is firstly to help avoid legal problems, but if they do occur, our job is to help you get out of them. The law is complicated enough – we are here to make dealing with it simple.
Awards
Malaysian Law Awards 2020
Finalist of the Asean Legal Business for the categories :
RISING LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
TRANSACTIONAL BOUTIQUE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
Evelyn Eng Hui Xian
Certificate of Legal Practice (CLP)
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court, Malaysia
Commissioner for Oaths
Evelyn has experience in corporate and commercial, financing and property matters. Evelyn has advised/involved in matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, various corporate exercises, foreign investment, financing matters, property development, joint venture agreements, conducting legal due diligence on companies and other commercial matters. Evelyn also advises on a wide range of matters relating to banking, corporate, commercial, industrial relations and construction law. Evelyn has vast experience in the area of commercial agreements/contracts drafting.
Evelyn graduated with LL.B (Hons) from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2007 and went on to complete her Certificate of Legal Practice in 2008. She then read in the chamber of Datuk Roger Tan Kor Mee of Messrs. Nik Saghir & Ismail (now known as Messrs. Roger Tan & Partners) in Johor Bahru and was thereafter retained as Legal Assistant after she was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in August 2009. She joined Messrs. Lee and Tengku Azrina in May 2010 and subsequently joined Messrs. Syed Alwi, Ng & Co in July 2011 before joining Messrs. Sheng Lee Law Office, Johor Bahru in December 2011, where she was made the head of the conveyancing and corporate department. She left Messrs. Sheng Lee Law Office, Johor Bahru on 31 June 2014 and founded Messrs. Xian & Co. on 1 July 2014.
Evelyn has represented various businesses in providing corporate legal advisory services on both ad-hoc and retainer basis. She advises and assisted businesses on setting their legal framework from drafting employment agreement/letter to resolving disputes and conflicts between employers and employees, or even issues regarding redundancies and termination. The services rendered to these businesses also includes supplier issues, or customer debt matters.
Evelyn has represented various corporations, developers and bank in Malaysia on various deals ranging from corporate to property matters and some of the notable clients that she have and/or continue to provide legal services are as follows:-
Property Developers
Tiong Nam Properties Sdn Bhd | KSL Properties Sdn Bhd | Genting Property Sdn Bhd | Berinda Properties (A member of Kuok Group) | Dynasty View Sdn Bhd (wholly-owned subsidiary of United Malayan Land Bhd) | Horizon Hills Development Sdn Bhd | Iskandar Investment Berhad Group of Companies | Sunrise Berhad Group of Companies (Kuala Lumpur) | Dream Driven Development Sdn Bhd
Banking and Financial Institutions
AIA Berhad | Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad | AmBank (M) Berhad | AmIslamic Bank Berhad | Bank of China (M) Bhd | CIMB Bank Berhad | Hong Leong Bank Berhad | Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad | HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad | HSBC Amanah Malaysia Berhad | Malayan Banking Berhad | Maybank Islamic Berhad | OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad | Public Bank Berhad | Public Islamic Berhad | RHB Bank Berhad | United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Berhad
Evelyn also has vast experience when it comes to drafting of Will and probate administration. She assisted a number of clients in drafting up their Will and provided them with practical and executable advice that enables her clients to be able to put their mind at ease when it comes to ensuring that their wishes are recorded in the Will and therefore heard by their beneficiaries. She also assisted a number of beneficiaries in dealing with the complex inheritance process ensuring that the inheritance reaches the intended beneficiaries
Evelyn was the secretary of the Johore Young Lawyers Committee of the Johore Bar Committee for the term 2009/2010.
Evelyn was the secretary of the Conveyancing Sub-Committee of the Johore Bar Committee for the term 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020.
Evelyn was shortlisted as the Finalist for the Asean Legal Business | Malaysian Law Awards 2020 for the categories of:-
- The Managing Partner of the Year
- Young Lawyer of the Year
Cindy specialises and has extensive experience in banking and conveyancing pertaining to purchase and disposal of real estate involving residential, commercial and industrial properties. She regularly advises financial institutions on matters pertaining to drawdown for both conventional and Islamic financing facilities. She also advises financial institutions on matters pertaining to SME loan and corporate loan.
Cindy Lim See Chew
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Leeds
Certificate of Legal Practice (CLP)
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court, Malaysia
She advises property developers pertaining to real estate and project development and completed developer sale transactions. She also regularly advises developers in their project developments including matters pertaining to tenancy and leasing.
Cindy Lim graduated with LL.B (Hons) from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom in the year of 2006 and went on to complete her Certificate of Legal Practice in the year of 2007.
She then read in the chamber of Mr. Alan Adrian Gomez of Messrs. Tommy Thomas in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. She was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 28th of November 2008.
She joined Messrs. David Gurupatham and Koay in September 2009 as legal assistant at Bangsar branch office. She was made to head the second branch office at Bangsar in the year of 2011 and was being promoted as Senior Associate in the year of 2012. She was then being relocated to Johor Bahru for set up and head the Johor Bahru branch office in the year of 2014 and was being promoted as Associate Partner in the year of 2016. She left Messrs. David Gurupatham and Koay on 31 December 2018.
Forward Thinking Lawyers
Our Philosophy
Xian & Co aims at being a proactive law firm that focuses on providing preventative legal advice to our clients. While we protect our client’s rights when challenged, the last thing we want is our clients involved in a dispute, or worse, in court. This approach not saves our clients money and heartache, but empowers them to focus on their life and businesses secure in the knowledge that their lawyers have their backs.
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Combined Experience
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Cases Done
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Co-operate
Practical Approach
No one wants to waste valuable time that could be better utilised on more important tasks. At Xian & Co, we will always provide you with practical and easy to implement advice, rather than pages of legal jargon.
Often it only takes a simple phone call or email to us to answer your question on the spot. If it is a legal issue, we will provide you with the advice you require (often, on the spot). Similarly, if it doesn’t require any legal advice, we will tell you that too! This is just another way in which we deliver genuine value for our clients, while sparing them the pain of navigating the legal maze alone.
Affordable
At Xian & Co, we take the approach that prevention is better than cure. We encourage our clients to interact with us regularly to update us with their developments, or to simply ask that niggling question that has been at the back of their minds. For this kind of interaction, we simply do not charge. When a matter does require further work, we will tell you whether or not a fee will be involved, and exactly what that fee will be. Honesty and full transparency are our promise to you.
The biggest frustration for individuals or businesses wishing to engage a lawyer has been the fear of the unknown legal costs. Therefore, we also like to operate on a ‘by project’ basis where we provide fixed fee quotes for specified outcomes. This works best both for us and for your business as it provides a transparent and defined scope of works, and eliminates the risk of an alarming cost blowout and the dreaded bill shock.