Kwong Chiew Ee

Partner

Chiew Ee is a dispute resolution lawyer with in-depth experience in corporate and commercial disputes. Her disputes experience includes acting for the Malaysian subsidiary of a German-listed company in proceedings involving breach of directors’ and fiduciary duties, representing a Japanese credit leasing company in a post-M&A arbitration concerning breach of warranty, advising local and foreign private equity funds in shareholder disputes, and representing clients in asset tracing proceedings arising from cyber frauds. She also regularly acts for financial institutions in defending claims relating to alleged financial mis-selling and negligence. 

In the area of restructuring and insolvency, Chiew Ee has acted for creditors, debtors, financial institutions, and insolvency officeholders in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. She has experience advising foreign clients on the implications of their restructuring processes—such as the US Chapter 11 process and the UK Part 26A restructuring plans—in Malaysia, including how their Malaysian entities may participate in or be affected by the wider foreign restructuring processes. Chiew Ee also has experience coordinating recognition of Malaysian restructuring and insolvency proceedings and orders in foreign jurisdictions.

Notably, Chiew Ee is the first and only Malaysian-qualified practitioner to be admitted as an INSOL Fellow, joining a select global cohort of professionals recognised for their experience in international restructuring and insolvency. Chiew Ee is also a part of the INSOL International’s Asian Advisory Council—a regional council comprising a group of experienced restructuring and insolvency professionals that is supporting INSOL International work in the Asia-Pacific region. She is a member of INSOL International and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC).

Chiew Ee has been recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in Dispute Resolution for The Legal 500 Asia Pacific where she was noted for being “very knowledgeable about the law, particularly on insolvency issues” and was praised for being “detail-oriented and possesses an impressive commercial sense”. Client has also commended her as their “preferred go-to as counsel for Malaysian disputes.” She was the winner of the Lexology Client’s Choice Award in 2025 for Restructuring & Insolvency in Malaysia. In 2022, Chiew Ee was named in Asian Legal Business’ Asia 40 Under 40 list, which recognises the most accomplished lawyers in Asia under the age of 40.

Chiew Ee is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Panel Adjudicator at the Asian International Arbitration Centre. She is an emerging thought leader in cross-border commercial disputes, having co-authored Commercial Conflict of Laws in Malaysia, the sole Malaysian practitioner text on the subject which has been cited by the High Court of Malaya. She is also the co-editor of the latest edition of the “Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia - Conflict of Laws” published by LexisNexis.

Work Highlights

• Acted for Vantris Energy Berhad (formerly Sapura Energy Berhad) and its subsidiaries in the group’s debt restructuring in Malaysia through a scheme of arrangement. The restructuring is one of the largest in Malaysia and it involved recognition of the Malaysian restructuring proceedings and orders in various jurisdictions (Sapura Energy Bhd & Ors v Martin Bencher (M) Sdn Bhd [2024] 9 MLJ 310 and Martin Bencher (M) Sdn Bhd v Sapura Energy Bhd & Ors [2025] 3 MLJ 614).
• Acted as lead counsel for the ad hoc group of opposing unsecured creditors in the KNM Group Berhad’s schemes of arrangement (KNM Group Berhad v. Ann Joo Metal Sdn. Bhd. [2024] CLJU 1250 and KNM Group Berhad & Anor v. Hitachi Zosen Corporation & Ors [2025] CLJU 988).
• Acted as Malaysian counsel to Vyaire Medical, a US-based medical equipment manufacturer, in connection with its Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings in the United States and in relation to the distressed M&A sale of its Malaysian subsidiary.
• Advised an aircraft engine lessor in relation to its MYR4.31 billion English-law governed claims as an unsecured scheme creditor in the AirAsia X Berhad’s scheme of arrangement in Malaysia.
• Assisted with the preparation of the expert evidence on Malaysian law on behalf of Malaysia Aviation Group in its application for scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the English Companies Act 2006 concerning cross-border scheme of arrangement under Malaysian law accepted by the English High Court in Re MAB Leasing [2021] EWHC 379 (Ch).