Andrew Chiew Ean Vooi

Practice Areas

Banking Litigation & Insolvency

Commercial Disputes

Corporate Disputes

Professional Memberships

Multilaw, Asia-Pacific Region Coordinator, Dispute Resolution

Inter Pacific Bar Association, Vice-Chair, The Insolvency Committee

Bar Council, Advocacy Training Committee, Member

Insolvency Practitioners Association of Malaysia, Member

Personal

Andrew has notable experience in the areas of banker’s liability, civil fraud, corporate insolvency and restructuring, as well as money laundering. He acts for various financial institutions on financing obligations and security enforcement, involving conventional and Islamic financing, and asset recovery.

His experience in corporate and commercial disputes covers various business sectors, including energy, hospitality, logistics, and plantation. He also acts for corporations on matters concerning fraud and breaches of fiduciary and fidelity by senior management and directors.

Clients have described him as a “sharp, skillful, knowledgeable articulator” and someone “who knows his work and produces really good arguments”. Andrew is a Ranked Practitioner by Chambers & Partners and Benchmark Litigation. He is ranked as a “Litigation Star” for Commercial & Transactions in The Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2023, and a “Distinguished Practitioner” for Dispute Resolution in Asialaw Profiles 2023/2024. He is also ranked “Band 3” for Dispute Resolution in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023 rankings.

He is a contributor to a number of practitioner guides, such as the Law & Practice of Corporate Insolvency in Malaysia. He also frequently speaks, locally and overseas, on matters relating to his areas of practice.

Andrew is also a member of the Malaysian Bar Council’s Advocacy Training Committee. He conducts advocacy training not just in Malaysia, but also in other countries, having had stints in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa.

Publications

Contributor, Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency in Malaysia, Asian Business Legal Institute (2020)

Contributor, Law and Practice of Corporate Insolvency in Malaysia, Sweet & Maxwell (2019)

Contributor, The Malaysian Civil Procedure, Sweet & Maxwell (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)

Contributor, Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings, Sweet & Maxwell (2017, 2020)

Contributor, Hishamudin Yunus: Celebrating Judicial Independence (2018)