Yu Jing graduated with First Class Honours in law from the University of the West of England, Bristol, and completed the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School, London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln’s Inn, and has been involved in corporate practice for seven years before joining the Firm’s Corporate and Commercial department.
Yu Jing practises corporate law, specialising in Corporate M&A's, Investments, and Capital Markets, with expertise in domestic and cross-border M&A's, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and general corporate and commercial transactions. He has acted for diverse range of clients, including local and international corporations, MNCs, listed companies, government-linked corporations, and financial institutions. He has advised and dealt with clients in a wide array of industries, including FMCG, healthcare, real estate, construction, manufacturing, retail, education, automotive, and technology.
Yu Jing is also well versed in equity capital market matters, including initial public offerings on Bursa Malaysia and foreign stock exchanges, as well as secondary offerings such as bonus issues, placements, rights issues, and other corporate exercises involving Malaysian listed companies.
Apart from English and Malay, he is also fluent in Mandarin and can communicate effectively in professional settings. This multilingual proficiency is an added advantage for his clients when advising, negotiating and discussing deals especially deals involving Mainland Chinese corporations in diverse legal matters including direct investments, joint ventures, formation of strategic alliances and other corporate advisory matters in Malaysia.
Notable Cases and Transactions Yu Jing advised and assisted
- a Malaysian listed conglomerate in its proposed divestment of education business to a China based education group
- a Malaysian listed property development company in the disposal of its entire shareholding in a building and facilities management subsidiary to a local company
- a Malaysian public company for its privatisation exercise via disposal of its entire assets in Malaysia
- a Korean conglomerate in its proposed acquisition of all the ordinary shares and privatisation of a pharmaceutical Malaysian listed company (aborted)
- a Malaysian listed conglomerate with its asset injection, which involved transferring the entire issued and paid-up share capital of a subsidiary and a piece of industrial land into another Malaysian listed company, in exchange for the issuance of new shares to the conglomerate
- a prominent software company in its proposed acquisition of accounting and payroll software businesses across multiple jurisdictions (including Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia) from a British multinational enterprise software company listed on the London Stock Exchange
- a local automotive company, which is a subsidiary of a local listed conglomerate in its joint venture with a public multinational corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- a Malaysian listed oil and gas company with its proposed acquisition of a majority stake in another Malaysian listed oil and gas company (aborted)
- as a Malaysian counsel for a proposed listing of a subsidiary of a Taiwanese listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
- as a Malaysian counsel for a listing of a construction company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- in multiple initial public offering and secondary offering exercises on the Main Market and Ace Market of Bursa Malaysia