Gwendoline, Choy

Senior Associate

  Work

Industry

NA


Jurisdiction

Malaysia


Expertise

General Corporate


Customer Type

Individuals & Companies


Affiliation

Lincoln's Inn Bar Council Malaysia Law Society of England & Wales

  Education

Education

LLB - London School of Economics


Certification

NA


Year First Admitted To Bar

2006


Languages Spoken

NA


Languages Written

English (GB)

Malay

Chinese (HK)

   About Me

Gwendoline is a senior associate at Donovan & Ho, KL, Malaysia as of May 2017. She has considerable experience across two practice areas and jurisdictions. From 2006 to 2009, she was an associate in the corporate & commercial practice group of Wong & Partners Malaysia (member firm of Baker & McKenzie). She represented international corporations on share / business sales and acquisitions, joint venture arrangements, commercial real estate acquisitions, and fund capitalisation. She also advised on franchising matters, capital markets related queries, and employment related issues. From 2010 to early 2017, Gwendoline was in-house legal counsel at the General Counsel Division of the Financial Conduct Authority, London, United Kingdom. In this role, she advised and coordinated with a wide range of stakeholders including internal clients, industry representatives and other UK and EU regulators on implementing new financial services regulation in the UK. Her scope of expertise included drafting requirements and guidelines relating to markets infrastructure; and derivatives and securities trading, clearing and reporting.