Chambers Asia Pacific (2014 - 2023)
Ranked for Dispute Resolution

Chambers Asia Pacific
Ranked for Employment Law

Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2017)
Listed as highly recommended lawyer

Asialaw (2017)
Market-leading lawyer for Employment Law

LL.B. (Hons), University of Leicester

LL.M., University Malaya

Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple

Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (1991)

With almost 30 years of experience under his belt, Steven represents clients at all levels of the courts.

His client base includes corporations from the public utilities, infrastructure and project development, aviation and airlines, banks, charities, financial services, education, media, oil & gas, real estate and telecommunications sectors.

In recent years, Steven has successfully represented and advised clients in:

• a RM579 million dispute involving the evaluation and accreditation of the local medical programs and the termination of the offshore medical programs.
• several landmark decisions involving meter-tampering, power theft and fraud.
• cases involving breach of fiduciary duty by high level employees.
• land acquisition matters involving the methodology of calculation for severance damage caused by an acquisition exercise.

Steven served on the Bar Council and was President of the Malaysian Bar from 2015 - 2017. He is a Vice-President (Australasia) and Council Member (Malaysia) of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. He is currently an Exco Member of LAWASIA, and is currently serving his third term as one of three Vice-Presidents of LAWASIA for the year 2022/2023.