Raja Darryl & Loh is regularly engaged by technology startups and established companies alike for its specialist expertise in financial technology and digital banking. The firm also has extensive experience advising on various corporate transactions, including aviation finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and equity capital markets work. With a well-regarded contentious practice, the firm’s dispute resolution team handles a range of complex commercial cases involving antitrust, construction, employment and tax litigation. Key contacts include experienced competition lawyer Phye Keat Chew; dispute partner Raja Eileen Soraya; Ravindra Kumar Rengasamy, who regularly advises on employment matters; Vijey Mohana Krishnan, a leading tax and revenue lawyer; and technology laws expert Tong Lai Ling. Under the leadership of managing partner Phye Keat Chew, the firm aims to deliver solutions tailored to clients’ commercial and strategic needs. The firm’s expertise across corporate transactions, technology, banking and contentious issues enables it to provide holistic and pragmatic advice to businesses operating in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Client feedback
"Relevant information, timely information, and going the extra mile." – Banking and finance
"Deep local knowledge at a very competitive cost. Excellent overall value." – Dispute resolution
"Strong subject-matter experts, commercial solutions, responsive partners." – Intellectual property
"Professional, reliable, prompt, efficient, readily available whenever we approach them for advice and support, amicable, subject-matter expert in ER/IR." – Labour and employment
Huey Miin Ooi
"Excellent understanding of the situations and briefs given, with the subsequent advice detailed and explained clearly."
Li Vyen Tham
"Li Vyen is an excellent source of support for us in helping to deal with industrial/employee relations matters and issues. She is very approachable and is readily available whenever we reach out to her. She is professional and a subject-matter expert (IR/ER). She is very efficient and always delivers on time. A trusted and reliable legal adviser."
Lai Ling Tong
"Strong expert in technology and personal data protection. Provides commercial and practical solutions. Responsive to client. Good trainer."
Work highlights
Successfully represented Syarikat SESCO in securing a favourable Customs Appeal Tribunal ruling for a RM5.2 million ($1.2 million) goods and services tax (GST) refund claim. The case centred on overpaid tax resulting from erroneously reduced input tax credit claims during the GST period. While the Director General of Customs initially rejected the refund citing statutory time limitations, the tribunal directed the refund's issuance in August 2024. The case, currently under appeal to the High Court, provides important clarification on refund provisions under the Goods and Services Tax (Repeal) Act 2018.
