Dayang Roziekah graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Law LL.B (Hons) from the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2017.
She was the recipient of the prestigious Vice Chancellor Award of UKM 2017, Faculty of Law Alumni Award 2017, Anugerah Tokoh Siswa Sukarelawan UKM 2014 and a finalist of Anugerah Tokoh Siswa Kebangsaan 2014, in recognition of her consistent academic excellence and active student leadership.
Upon graduation, she joined the Firm as a pupil and was called to the Malaysian Bar and admitted to the roll of Advocates and Solicitors on 3 August 2018. Having progressed steadily through the associate ranks – as Senior Associate 2 on 1 April 2021 and Senior Associate 1 on 1 April 2023 – Dayang was admitted into the Firm’s partnership on 1 September 2024.
She has been heavily involved in a broad range of civil and general litigation and related advisory matters, including:
• Contractual disputes involving agreements of various nature, including issues of breach and termination, and shareholders’ and joint venture disputes;
• Tortious claims such as medical negligence, employer’s negligence at the workplace, defamation, and trespass to land;
• Tax matters covering income tax, stamp duty and real property gains tax assessments and exemptions, including appeals and judicial review;
• Corporate applications under the Companies Act such as capital reduction exercises and rectification of register of members and charges;
• Land disputes involving ownership, development, and land acquisition issues;
• Estate and administration matters, both direct applications and contested proceedings;
• Debt recovery across varying quantum;
• Execution and enforcement proceedings including winding-up, garnishee, and judgement debtor summons.
Her work spans the full spectrum of dispute resolution from advisory and pre-litigation strategy to contested proceedings across all levels of the Malaysian courts.
Some of Dayang’s notable assignments to date include:
• Secured a judgment of RM76 million and resisted a counterclaim of RM40 million at the High Court in favour of a statutory body in a claim for breach of contract against a developer.
• Obtained a summary judgment of USD200,000 for a Bruneian company in a claim against an oil and gas supplier for failure to deliver petroleum product.
• Represented a wholly-owned subsidiary of a statutory body in proceedings from the High Court to the Federal Court, successfully obtaining an order for the counterparty to deposit a sum of RM30 million into Court pending the final disposal of the suit.
• Set aside an additional assessment of income tax and penalty amounting to RM8 million for a subsidiary of a Malaysian business conglomerate in a three-level appeal process from the Special Commissioners of Income Tax up to the Court of Appeal.
• Successfully represented a company in an appeal before the Special Commissioner of Income Tax against an additional assessment of income tax in the sum of RM850,000.
• Successfully represented a group of companies in the oil and gas industry in obtaining leave from the High Court to commence judicial review proceedings concerning the imposition of ad valorem stamp duty totalling RM3.75 million.
• Secured a judgment of nearly RM1 million in a medical negligence suit at the Sessions Court involving unlicensed breast filler injections at an unlicensed beauty clinic operated by an unqualified aesthetic doctor.
• Successfully defended a state-linked company in a claim exceeding RM1 million for alleged trespass of underground water pipes, with the claim fully dismissed.
• Obtained various successful orders against trespassers, including recovery of lands unlawfully occupied by religious group, unlicensed individuals, and tenants holding over beyond the tenancy period.
• Successfully obtained High Court confirmation in various multi-million-ringgit special capital reduction exercises under Section 116 of the Companies Act 2016.
Dayang is part of our Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group (3) alongside the Co-Deputy Managing Partner, Abu Daud Abd Rahim and Partner, Muhamad Zuraidi Zulkifli.
