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.