Dato’ Azmi Mohd Ali (DJMK) is the Senior Partner of the Firm.  The firm, Azmi & Associates under his leadership is recognized as one of the largest law firms (by size) in Malaysia.

He holds LL.B (Hons.) from the University of Malaya (1984) and LLM in US & Global Business Law from the Suffolk University, Boston, U.S.A (2011). He has also attended a short program on Enterprise Innovation at Cambridge University Business School.

He is an experienced and is one of the leading corporate lawyers in Malaysia with expertise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, project finance, privatisation, energy, oil and gas and foreign investments.

Prior to his venture in private practice, Dato’ Azmi spent 6 1⁄2 years as an in-house counsel of PETRONAS. He was involved in projects of national importance for Malaysia and negotiated and concluded the NGPSA, a major gas development project for Malaysia, in 1990.

His accomplishments as a corporate lawyer are well noted and have earned him numerous awards, and recognition from reputed international legal publications. He won the prestigious the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for M&A/Corporate (2020-2026), ALB Dealmaker of the Year (2024-2025), IHC Commended External Counsel (Malaysia) (2021 & 2026), Asia Business Law Journal Top 15 Legal Icon in Malaysia (2024-2025), Asia Business Law Journal The A-List: Malaysia’s Top 100 Lawyers (2019-2022, 2024-2025), Asialaw Distinguished M&A Practitioner (2020, 2021 & 2023), Asialaw Senior Statesman in Corporate/M&A (2024-2025), International Law Office 2016 Clients Choice Award for Malaysia in Mergers & Acquisitions, and other international publications.

Currently, he is a director of Pelaburan Hartanah Berhad and Worldwide Holdings Berhad. He has previously served as a Director of Sime Darby Berhad, CCM Biotech Duopharma Berhad, S P Setia Berhad, Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad, Perbadanan Nasional Berhad, Maybank Islamic Berhad, Sapura Energy Berhad, Metacorp Berhad and Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM).

He was a Director of Financial Reporting Foundation, a Government-backed foundation to facilitate the advancement of Malaysian accounting standard, and was also the Chairman of Malaysia International Franchise Sdn Bhd (“MyFranchise”).

Under his leadership, Azmi & Associates has established itself as one of the leading law firms in Malaysia. He had also served for 7 years as a Director of TerraLex, a global network of independent law firms with 23,000 lawyers headquartered in Florida, USA.

On the academic front, currently he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Previously, he was a director of a public university, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia for more than 3 years and Adjunct Professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Law Faculty. He was also a Director of Yayasan Putra Business School, a UPM-related private university.

He is also a member of ICC Malaysia (International Chamber of Commerce Malaysia) and member of the Panel of Conciliators and Panel of Arbitrators, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).