Webinar - Kuala Lumpur, Open for Business

Global supply chains are being tested once again by the war in Ukraine.

The time has long since passed when supply chain disruptions can be treated as one-off events, with organizations struggling to alleviate the disturbance in their business: keeping goods, funds, and information flowing across the supply chain.

The conflict in Ukraine reinforces the need for most organizations to have more resilient supply chains in place.

Changes are required to the current global supply chain design and operating practice allowing mitigation to futureproofing. In this webinar, you can expect a panel of experts to foresee strategies and approaches that can be taken to curb the situation.

Key Objectives:

• New incorporation/relocation requirements in Malaysia
• Law aspect on foreign investment
• Tax highlights

Agenda

Panelists

Mah Chun Wai
Director & Team Leader, Investor Relations Asia and Oceania
Invest KL

Known to be a driven and diligent executive with 25 years of proven reputation spanning across telecoms, technology, and internet services sectors; Mah carries a comprehensive functional experience in business development and strategic planning, comprises of operational execution, business intelligence, brand management and cross-country responsibilities for sales and marketing.

He took on the role as a Director in Investor Relations in 2014 for InvestKL, a government entity driving Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 multinational companies’ investments into Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL). Focusing on Asia and Oceania, he works with large multinationals that are scaling their business operations in Asia using GKL as their base to land and expand.

Recently, Mah has participated in ample speaking and panel discussions on trending topics such as China’s Belt & Road Initiative & Made in China 2025, Japan’s Society 5.0 as well as Korea’s Southern Policy, both locally and internationally. Furthermore, he was also invited as a speaker on the Halal Economy, Deloitte Digital Forum and more recently in several tech forums: Fintech, BlockChain, & EduTech.

Celine See
Director - Head of Business Development
Tricor Management Services

Celine See is the Director - Head of Business Development of Tricor Malaysia. She has graduated from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburg, Scotland with a Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration. She has been working in Tricor for more than 8 years. She has experience in providing advisory for business setup and license requirements for inbound investment. She leads a team of sales professionals and manages the commercial as well as branding activities for Tricor Malaysia's core business. Furthermore, she also leads Tricor Hive Business Centre which enables new businesses to quick start their business activities by renting our serviced office, virtual office and fully equipped meeting facilities.

Vivian New
Executive Director
Tricor Taxand

Vivian is a member of CPA Australia and CTIM. Vivian has significant corporate tax compliance and advisory experience from leading international accounting firms in Malaysia as well as overseas. She has serviced both local corporations and multinationals from a wide range of industries, including property development, manufacturing, trading, services, etc. In addition, Vivian has extensive knowledge in the area of TP, having assisted clients in planning and structuring related party transactions, TP risk reviews, TP documentation, and TP audits and investigations.

Nicole Leong
Partner
Tay & Partners

Nicole has 14 years of post-qualification experience and is a corporate and regulatory compliance lawyer, with a focus on antitrust and competition law. Throughout her diverse practice, she has gained extensive experience both in dispute resolutions and corporate and commercial transactions, mergers & acquisitions work, corporate finance, commercial drafting, property matters, retail and corporate loan matters. Nicole speaks regularly in seminars and trainings on legal compliance topics.

She has most recently been recognized by Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2022 as a notable practitioner in Corporate/M&A and is a recommended lawyer for Antitrust & Competition Law by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022. Nicole was ranked one of Malaysia’s Rising Stars and was a Young Lawyer of the Year Finalist in the Asian Legal Business’ Malaysia Law Awards 2021.

Chang Hong Yun
Partner
Tay & Partners

Hong Yun heads the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group at Tay & Partners.

He is a graduate from Monash University (Victoria, Australia) with double degree in Law and Science (Computer Science). With 29 years of post-qualification experience, Hong Yun regularly advises on foreign direct investment, cross border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, real estate, banking and finance, regulatory compliance and other corporate and commercial matters for a variety of clients both local and foreign.

Hong Yun is a member of the Disciplinary Committee Panel appointed by the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board of Malaysia.

He is also a recommended lawyer for Banking & Finance, Corporate, M&A and Real Estate by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022, a Leading Lawyer for Banking as ranked by IFLR1000 2021 and one of Malaysia’s top 100 “A-list” lawyers in 2021 as recognized by Asia Business Law Journal.

Hong Yun has also been a regular contributor to the Malaysia chapters for the World Bank Group on “Doing Business in Malaysia”.

Moderator

Steven Wong Weng Leong
C-suite Banking & Financial Services Executive

Steven Wong Weng Leong is currently the Chief Digital & Global Banking Strategist at China Construction Bank (CCB) Malaysia. Just prior to this, he was the Chief Operating & Financial Strategist (COO, CIO/CTO, CFO & Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer roles combined) and before that, the Chief Business Development Strategist. At CCB Malaysia, Mr Wong spearheads bank-wide business growth and provides strategic leadership for Global Banking & Markets and Wholesale & Retail Digital Banking (Cash Management, Retail Banking), which includes catalyzing FinTech initiatives in delivering product, technology and digital innovations for the Malaysian and ASEAN markets.

He is well regarded in the financial services industry as an all-rounder and go-to-individual, having held several senior executive leadership positions across various leading financial institutions over the last 28 years. He has held strategic leadership roles in the Front Office (FO), Middle Office (MO) and Back Office (BO) at Western Union, Alliance Financial Group, Maybank, Mayban Life Assurance, MIDF Amanah Investment Bank and Citi.