This post is a part of a series based on my Law for Startups workshop at MaGIC in September 2015.
Read the earlier post for context: Law for Startups in Malaysia — building on the best foundations.
It’s a basic introduction to legalities for startups.
I explained the background to this conversation about “DIY legal documents” and the Collective of Applied Law and Legal Realism (CALR) in an earlier post — “DIY legal documents for conveyancing transactions — can we really do it without lawyers?”
As mentioned in that post, I was invited to speak at the launch event and was assigned the session title — What’s wrong with conveyancing and corporate law work?
I’ll be writing about what I shared in relation to conveyancing in four parts (beginning with this post):
The Malaysian startup scene has noticeably increased in vibrancy in the past couple of years. Many of us have friends or relatives who are somehow involved in the startup scene — either as founders or investors.
An increasing number of people — young and not-so-young, and some lawyers too — are moving away from traditional career paths and joining the startup ecosystem.
Other than my involvement with startups and investors via my corporate law practice, I’ve recently been working together with the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (“MaGIC”).
MaGIC is funded by the Malaysian government, and you can read their mandate here. They are an exciting and ambitious group of people, and they aim to make Malaysia the startup capital of Asia.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have been part of a couple of MaGIC initiatives so far this year:
Earlier this year, I was invited to be one of the speakers at the launch of the Collective of Applied Law and Legal Realism (CALR) — the event title was “The End of Lawyers, The Future of Law”.
The launch was a great success, and the report was the front page headline of The Star the following day.
CALR is an initiative led by my friend Edmund Bon, and is one of the many initiatives which have been discussed (formally and informally) by myself and Edmund with different groups of people in relation to innovation in the legal industry.
We are delighted that the team at Office Parrots featured our spanking-new blog so soon after our launch.
They described this blog as “a joint, personal initiative by Marcus van Geyzel and Lee Shih to build a new cornerstone of online content for Malaysian lawyers”.
Quite interestingly, they asked their readers to think of this blog “as a lifestyle blog for the contemporary Malaysian lawyer”!
Read the full feature here.
Also read the rest of their blog and main website for lots of interesting information and insights.
Hello, and welcome to The Malaysian Lawyer!
The Malaysian Lawyer is a collaborative blog by two Malaysian lawyers, Lee Shih and Marcus van Geyzel. This is a personal blog which is not affiliated with their respective law firms.
Lee Shih is a partner at Skrine and is a dispute resolution lawyer. Come connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Marcus is the co-founder of corporate law firm Peter Ling & van Geyzel, based in Kuala Lumpur. Find out more and connect with him on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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