Xian Ai Chan

Xian Ai is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Commercial Practice Group. Xian Ai’s main area of focus include mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, capital equity markets, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, foreign investments into Malaysia, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, incorporation of a company, legal due diligence and general corporate advisory. She advises both local and international clients in her areas of expertise.

Xian Ai works with leading public listed and private corporations on a variety of cross-border transactions in various industries, including financial institutions, REITs, telecommunication, manufacturing, logistics and retail markets. She also advises clients on private equity transactions involving block trades and placements.

Xian Ai is the key partner in the firm’s Japan Desk practice, and works with Japanese law firms and corporations to advise on various outbound investments. Xian Ai previously worked in Japan, where she was seconded to Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, an international law firm in Tokyo as a foreign legal counsel.

• Banking and finance
• Corporate and M&A
• General business law
• Investment funds
• Private client

• Banking
• Financial services

• Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree from the University of Reading

• Certificate Legal Practice of Malaysia

• Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya