Appointment of Foong Pui Chi as a partner of Shearn Delamore & Co

Pui Chi was admitted to practice as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in August 2007 after obtaining an LL.B (Hons) degree from the University of London in 2005 and the Certificate in Legal Practice in 2006.

Pui Chi has been a member of Shearn Delamore & Co.’s Tax and Revenue Practice Group since 2007 and she practises in all aspects of Malaysian tax and revenue law advisory, structuring, planning, litigation, transfer pricing, audit and investigation work.

Pui Chi has been recognised as Tax Counsel in the 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 editions of the International Tax Review and she has also recently been named as one of the nominees for the award of “Rising Star in Tax” at the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2015.

She has appeared as Counsel for taxpayers in numerous tax appeals before the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and judicial review applications as well as other tax proceedings before the Superior Courts of Malaysia.

She has regularly contributed articles on Malaysian Revenue Law to tax and accounting journals such as the Tax Guardian (published by the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia) and The Malaysian Accountant (published by the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants). She is one of the authors of Bloomberg BNA’s Business Operations in Malaysia.