Jurisprudentia Q1 2025

30 April 2025

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Banking & Finance

Application for digital insurers and takaful operators’ licence opens with continued interest 

Bank Negara Malaysia issues Monetary Policy Statement 

Bank Negara Malaysia issues revised Policy Document on Electronic Money

Capital Markets

Securities Commission updates guidelines on offer of shares by unlisted public companies

Securities Commission issues revised guidelines on advertising for capital market products and related services

Bursa Malaysia announces new renewable energy subsector classification

Competition

MyCC issues interim report on market review of digital economy ecosystem under Competition Act 2010

Cybersecurity & Data Protection

PDPD launches public consultations on guidelines for data protection impact assessments, data protection by design, and automated decision making and profiling

New Guidelines on Appointment of Data Protection Officer and Data Breach Notification

ESG & Public Policy

Parliament passes Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Bill 2025

Regulatory & Compliance

Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities (Amendment) Bill 2024 passed by Senate

Restructuring & Insolvency

Court of Appeal issues landmark decision on scheme of arrangement and clarifies new “cooling off” period for a restraining order 

Tax

Novation agreement subject to ad valorem stamp duty

Tax incentive package for Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) announced

Singapore and Malaysia exchange Agreement on the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone

Stamp Act 1949 amendments gazetted, laying groundwork for self-assessment regime

New Finance Act introduces tax on dividends

Publications

Global Legal Insights to International Arbitration 2025 (11th Ed)

Lexology In-Depth: Public Competition Enforcement 2025 (17th Ed)

Deals

Jumbo loan financing of up to US$2,800,000,000 granted by consortium of international and cross-regional lenders

Senior secured term and revolving credit facilities of up to HK$2,108,000,000 granted to PowerDC HoldCo Pte. Ltd.

Refinancing of existing facilities by Pharmaforte Group

Joint venture with Telekom Malaysia to develop data centres in Malaysia

Lenders’ acquisition of global rights and operations of Tupperware

Issuance of shares to Green Esteel Pte Ltd, exemption for Green Esteel Pte Ltd from obligation to undertake mandatory take-over offer and placement to third party investors by Southern Steel Berhad

Initial public offering and listing of shares of CUCKOO International (MAL) Berhad on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad

Centurion disposes two Malaysian assets for RM227 million

Acquisition of land in Sedenak Tech Park and development of hyperscale data centre campus

Development and construction of new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) advanced packaging facility in Singapore

Development and construction of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) related facilities for the manufacturing of next generation of DRAM, The 1-gamma (1γ) node in Japan

Awards & Rankings

Rahmat Lim & Partners and the other firms in the A&G Asia network continue to be recognised as leading law firms in the region by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025

Rahmat Lim & Partners Intellectual Property Practice continues to be ranked a leading practice in World Trademark Review 1000 2025

Rahmat Lim & Partners ranked Tier 2 in Asia IP Copyright Survey 2025