Practice Areas

Why You Need Us

When facing legal challenges, the quality of your representation can make a difference between success and costly setbacks. We bring not just experience, but strategic insight, relentless advocacy, and a proven track record of winning complex cases. At Varon Joyce, our partners have over 13 years of collective experience in high-stakes disputes, representing corporations, executives, and individuals in some of Malaysia’s most demanding legal battles.

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Asset Tracking, Tracing, Preservation & Recovery

We assist clients in securing and protecting assets through court applications like Mareva injunctions (to freeze assets) and Anton Piller orders (to preserve evidence). We also handle related applications such as inspection of relevant bank records and discovery of relevant evidence from third parties.

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Civil Disputes

We represent clients in a wide range of civil claims, including:

  • Claims for negligence, breach of fiduciary duties, and breach of trust
  • Personal injury cases such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment
  • Disputes over property and goods, including conversion and wrongful detention
  • Cases involving interference with business and contractual relations
  • Civil conspiracy claims involving both lawful and unlawful acts

Commercial Disputes

We handle commercial conflicts, including:

  • Contract breaches involving consumers, suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and other parties (including the FMCG industry)
  • Disputes over defective or substandard goods, goods unfit for purpose, or those that don’t match contract descriptions
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Construction, Engineering & Quarry Excavation Disputes

We handle disputes involving construction, engineering and quarry excavation projects, including:

  • Breaches and wrongful terminations of contracts for construction, consultancy, and material supply
  • Issues such as unpaid or uncertified progress claims, wrongful calls on bank guarantees, retention sum disputes, and defects liability
  • Professional negligence claims against architects, engineers, and quantity surveyors
  • Cases involving conflicting expert evidence
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Corporate Insolvency & Receiverships

We represent promoters, companies, directors, shareholders, company secretaries and other interested parties in matters such as:

  • Insider trading, market manipulation, and other market offences
  • Breaches of directors’ and promoters’ duties
  • Disputes under shareholders’ agreements
  • Claims for oppressive or prejudicial conduct towards minority shareholders
  • Lifting or piercing the corporate veil
  • Related disputes involving company secretaries
  • Voluntary and compulsory company winding-up proceedings
  • Applications to reinstate companies struck off the register
  • Proceedings to appoint receivers and actions involving the personal liability of receivers

Debt Restructuring & Schemes of Arrangement

We act for clients in restructuring exercises, including:

  • Applications for restraining orders to halt legal proceedings by creditors
  • Applications to sanction and implement court-approved schemes of arrangement
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Defamation & Media

We advise and represent clients in defamation claims, whether in print, online, or broadcast, including raising possible defences.

Additionally, we advise clients on legal issues concerning, amongst others, media pre-production, production, post-production, broadcasting and licensing as well as talent engagements.  

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Industrial Relations & Employment Disputes

We assist both employers and employees in matters such as:

  • Claims for unfair dismissal and constructive dismissal
  • Applications to vary or interpret terms of collective agreements

Family Law

We represent clients in court proceedings (single or joint petition / judicial separations), involving the following:

  • Child and spousal maintenance (both interim and final)
  • Child custody, care, and access arrangements
  • Division of matrimonial assets following divorce or judicial separation
  • Claims involving third parties implicated in adultery
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Fraud & Civil Forensic Investigations

We carry out thorough investigations on, amongst others, clients’ commercial projects / transactions, and advise on:

  • Identifying individuals and companies involved in suspicious transactions
  • Tracing connections between parties, including relatives and related entities
  • Pinpointing jurisdictions and timelines for transactions
  • Compiling and analyzing documentary evidence
  • Assessing potential legal actions against involved parties
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Real Estate & Land Acquisition Disputes

We act for clients in land-related matters, including:

  • Disputes over fraudulent land transactions
  • Claims involving trespass to land
  • Summary possession proceedings (e.g. eviction of squatters)
  • Land reference proceedings for compulsory government acquisitions, challenging awards on compensation, injurious affection and/or severance
  • Disputes under strata management laws

Trust, Will & Inheritance Disputes

We advise families, beneficiaries and executors on:

  • Validity of trusts and wills
  • Administration of estates where no will has been left
  • Appointment of personal representatives when no one steps forward to administer an estate
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