Datin Jeyanthini Kannaperan

Datin Jeyanthini heads the Litigation Practice at Shearn Delamore. She has a busy litigation practice and appears regularly at hearings, trial and appeals at the High Court and the Appellate Courts. Datin Jeyanthini’s principal areas of practice are banking, restructuring and insolvency, regulatory and compliance, land, commercial and corporate, landlord and tenancy disputes. Apart from acting in such disputes, she provides strategic legal advice on these matters, where necessary, working with teams from other practice group within the Firm. She has acted in a number of important cases that have been reported in the law journals. She also leads teams of lawyers from within and outside the Firm in many court appearances at the High Court and Appellate Courts.

Datin Jeyanthini, who holds an LLB degree from the University of London, was called to the Bar of England and Wales before returning home to Malaysia and pupillage in Shearn Delamore. She was admitted to partnership in 1997, and her years in practice are testament to her rich experience in the area of banking (including Islamic or Syariah banking and finance) trade finance and insolvency; enforcement of loan, security instruments and instruments of payments; receiverships; foreclosures; as well as liquidation, restructuring, rescue mechanisms and schemes of arrangement and in the area of commercial and corporate disputes.