Daniel Chuah Chen Yean
- Partner
Department
- Litigation
Practice Areas
Banking Litigation, Construction & Arbitration, Corporate & Commercial Litigation, Corporate Banking Litigation, Debt Recovery & Insolvency, Employment & Industrial Relations, General Litigation, Land Acquisition, Probate & Administration of Estates
Qualifications
LL.B (Hons.), MMU
Languages
English, Bahasa Malaysia
Contact details
- +6 03 2692 3000
- danielcychuah@stwd.com.my
- linkedin.com/in/daniel-chuah-6587671a8/
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Daniel Chuah Chen Yean graduated with Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Hons from Multimedia University in the year 2010. Daniel commenced his pupillage and read in the Chambers of Dato’ John Clark Sumugod. On 5th May 2011, he was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.
Daniel was retained as an Associate on 1st June 2011 and was promoted to become a Senior Associate on 1st July 2017. On 2nd April 2021, Daniel was made a Partner of the Firm.
Daniel’s area of practice encompasses Contractual Disputes, Hire Purchase Matters, Debt Recovery, Construction and Engineering Disputes, Arbitration, Corporate And Commercial Litigation, Probate, Letter Of Administration, Bankruptcy, Winding-Up, Foreclosure, Land Disputes, Corporate Insolvency, Land and Vehicle Forfeiture Matters, General Litigation and more recently, adjudication proceedings under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA).
Daniel has conducted numerous trials and hearings in the Magistrate Court, Sessions Court, High Court and Appeals in the Court of Appeal.
Daniel also advises various Financial Institutions (including Islamic financial institutions), public listed companies, international companies and construction companies on matters relating to his practice areas and day to day legal issues requested by our panel clients.
Daniel regularly gives talks to panel clients on court proceedings, enforcement proceedings as well as new developments in case law and legislation.
Daniel has represented clients in the following cases which have been reported in Law Journals:-
- Bank of China (M) Bhd v Fivestar Development (Puchong) Sdn Bhd & Anor [2018] 11 MLJ 803;
- Bangkok Bank Berhad v AMGEN Furniture Industries Sdn Bhd & Anor [2016] MLJU 1588;
- Hajjah Yan Bt Mohd Nordin v CIMB Bank Bhd & Ors [2022] MLJU 511;
- Bangkok Bank Bhd v Tan Ngee Hong Construction Sdn Bhd (Malayan Banking Bhd, Proposed Intervener) – [2019] 12 MLJ 354;
- Sharifah Zohra Jabeen Binti v Affin Bank Berhad (Formerly Known As Asia Commercial Finance Berhad) [2015] MLJU 939
