Janet L H Looi

Practice Areas

- Mergers & Acquisitions

- Corporate Governance

- Corporate Restructuring

- Environment

- Competition

Professional Memberships

Mediation:

- Accredited Mediator of the Malaysian Mediation Centre (from May 2019)

Professional Affiliations:

- Regional Vice Chair (Asia Pacific), Lex Mundi Managing Partners Committee

- Board Member, Lex Mundi (2007 to 2011)

- Chair Emeritus of the Environmental Law Committee of Lex Mundi

- Honorary Fellow of the Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Center For International Studies, Salzburg, Austria

- Regional Vice Chair (Asia Pacific), Lex Mundi Women in The Law Committee (2011)

- Served on GOAL Task Force and Diversity Committees of Lex Mundi

Personal

To' Puan Janet Looi is the Senior Partner and Head of the Corporate Division of Skrine, as well as Co-Head of the Firm’s ESG Practice Group. She has been named as a distinguished practitioner and leading individual for her takeovers, mergers & acquisitions and cross borders transactions work by several leading publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, and Who's Who Legal (WWL): Southeast Asia 2022, in which she is listed as a Recommended National Leader in the area of Corporate Governance, and in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers in the same practice area.

Janet is the co-author together with Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar, the Chairman of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM) and former SC Chairman, of the “Legal Opinion On Directors’ Duties And Disclosure Obligations Under Malaysian Law In The Context Of Climate Change Risks and Considerations”, an independent legal opinion commissioned by the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) and launched at the International Directors Summit of the ICDM in September 2022. She is also author of the Malaysia chapter of the Primer on Climate Change: Directors Duties and Disclosure Obligations published by the Climate Governance Initiative and CCLI, which provides directors with succinct summaries of their legal obligations which apply in the face of climate change threats to their businesses. Janet has been a speaker at various forums on whether boards can be held responsible for contributing to climate change, including the CIMB Cooler Earth Sustainability Summit in 2021, is the author for the Malaysia chapter of Client Earth’s Net Zero Engagement in Asia Guide (November 2022) and was selected to be the sole legal practitioner member of the joint AIGCC and Client Earth panel on shareholder climate resolution trends in the Asia Pacific (November 2022).

Janet holds both a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University, (Clayton Campus, Australia).

On the recommendation of the leadership of Lex Mundi, a leading international network of independent law firms in over 160 jurisdictions worldwide, Janet was appointed to the Board of Directors of Lex Mundi and served as a Board member for four years. She has also served as Regional Vice Chair for Asia Pacific for the Women And The Law, GOAL Task Force and Diversity Committees of Lex Mundi, and is passionate about transformative leadership, diversity and sustainability issues.

As an Audit and Risk Management Committee member of a public listed company of which she was an Independent Director, Janet was directly responsible for ensuring that climate governance formed an integral part of the risk management framework.

Publications

- Co-Author, Chambers Global Practice Guide – Investing In…2022 (2022)

​- Co-Author, Lex GDTD Corporate Governance in Malaysia 2021

- Co-Author, Malaysian chapter of the Primer on Climate Change: Directors’ Duties and Disclosure Obligations (June 2021), an examination of directors’ duties and disclosure obligations in respect of climate change jointly published by the Climate Governance Initiative and Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative.

- Co-Author, Lex Mundi Climate Change Guide (2021)

- Moderator & Panelist, Climate Change & Directors’ Duties Webinar organised by Skrine with the Climate Governance Malaysia (a part of the World Economic Forum) (June 2020)

- Co-Author, Malaysia Chapter – Global Legal Insights to Merger Control (2019)

- Co-Author, Malaysia Chapter – The Mergers & Acquisitions Review, Law Business Research (2014)

- Author, Malaysian Chapter – Global Legal Group, the International Comparative Legal Guide to Environment Law (2010)

- Author, Malaysian Chapter – “Environmental Law and Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific Rim”, Sweet & Maxwell Asia (2007)

- Author (with Jacqueline Welch), Annotation of the Environmental Quality Act 1974 – Annotated Statutes, Malayan Law Journal

- Author, Malaysia Chapter, Guide to Financial Services Regulations in Asia Pacific (2012, 2013, 2014)

Presented “Key Developments On Mergers And Acquisitions In Malaysia” at the Herbert Smith Pan-Asian 2004 seminar.

- Chair of session on “Corporate Social Responsibility vs Profitability: The Current Issues Facing Corporations and Environmental and Corporate Counsel” at the Fourteenth Inter Pacific Bar Association Conference in Seoul, Korea in May 2004.

- Presented “Directors’ Personal Liability for Environmental Offences” at the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers’ seminar on “Managing Business Risks In An Environmental Context” on 11 August 2004 organised in collaboration with Skrine.

- Presented “The Relevance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Asian Business” at the Asia Corporate Governance Conference 2005 organised by ASLI.

- Planned and organised the Corporate Social Responsibility Plenary Session of the Lex Mundi Asia Pacific Regional Conference in November 2005.

- Presented “Key Developments on Mergers and Acquisitions in Malaysia” at the Herbert Smith Pan-Asian seminar, February 2006, Singapore. Practical Aspects of Joint Ventures in Malaysia” published in the Asian Commercial Law Review (a Journal of Commercial Law and Regulation in the Asia-Pacific Region) Volume 1 Issue 3 (June – July 1996).