Malaysia: Compliance

Malaysia's Online Safety Act 2025 introduces a comprehensive platform accountability framework with strict response deadlines as short as one hour, detailed content-classification requirements, and significant penalties for non-compliance. How will technology companies operating in the Asia-Pacific region adapt their trust-and-safety operations to meet these new legal duties while managing the cumulative complexity of divergent regulatory regimes across Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, and China?

Previously, stamp duty compliance was a reactive exercise. It involved presenting a document for assessment and paying the duty determined by the authorities. Under the self-assessment regime, businesses must now be proactive, identify dutiable instruments, ascertain the applicable duty, and make payment without being prompted.

When establishing a business presence in a new jurisdiction, it is crucial to choose the right entity form. The entity forms most commonly used by foreign investors are...

The Firm acted for a corporate licensed Moneylender in an appeal against the High Court decision in Summerhay Development Sdn Bhd v Ivory Ascent Sdn Bhd (2020 1 LNS 1491 and 2020 MLJU 1549)...

The Grant, which was originally made applicable to sukuk issued under the SC's SRI Sukuk Framework and bonds issued under the ASEAN Green, Social and Sustainability Bond Standards...

"Compliance Framework" is a structured process or system through which companies demonstrate that they have conformed to specific requirements in laws, regulations, contracts, strategies and policies.