Company Law Powers and Accountability by Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang - 4th Edition ( 2 Vols) - 2026

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Powers and Accountability by Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang has long been recognised as an important contribution to company law. It is valued not only by practitioners and regulators, but also by those who conduct business through companies and must understand the legal framework within which corporate power is exercised and controlled. Fourth Edition Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang The new edition also contains additional subjects of company law issues of contemporary importance. Each chapter now opens with a concise abstract, enabling readers to identify the principal issues and legal principles at the outset. The discussion has also been substantially updated to reflect recent and significant case law, with particular attention to Malaysian authorities and matters of local importance. This fourth edition is an essential guide for corporate litigators, practitioners, academics, company secretaries, regulators and all readers seeking a clear and principled understanding of corporate powers, duties and accountability in modern company law. Across four editions, this work has earned exceptional praise from distinguished voices in the legal profession. Professor Farrar recognised the first edition as a work that “takes its place as one of the works of quality in the Commonwealth”, while Sir John Vinelott described it as “a bold and imaginative work”. For the second edition, the late YBhg. Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram declared that “the awaited moment was now upon us”. In her Foreword to the third edition, YBhg. Tan Sri Datuk Zainun binti Ali welcomed “a formidable trilogy”, whose works “stand out as exemplars in both the Malaysian and the global legal fraternity”. Now, in the Foreword to the forthcoming fourth edition, Tan Sri Nallini Pathmanathan describes Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang as, “without exaggeration, the doyen of corporate law in Malaysia”, praising the work as “a coherent and distinctly Malaysian account of the law”. She identifies its considerable “research, analysis and evaluation” as central to its achievement, concluding: “Works of this scope and authority are rare in any jurisdiction.”

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About the Author

Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang graduated from the University of Malaya. He was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1978 and since then has been in active practice and specialises in litigation and transactional advice on company law, corporate finance and the capital markets. He is the co-author of Company Law (Hong Kong) with Dr.William Wong SC and Kerby Lau, which is now in its second edition. He was a former member of the Corporate Law Reform Committee which was set up to assist in the revision of the Companies Act 1965.