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To’ Puan Janet Looi is the Senior Partner of Skrine and Head of the Corporate Division of Skrine, as well as Co-Head of the Firm’s ESG Practice Group. She has been named as a distinguished practitioner and leading individual for her takeovers, mergers & acquisitions, and cross borders transactions work by several leading publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, and Who’s Who Legal (WWL): Southeast Asia 2022, in which she is listed as a Recommended National Leader in the area of Corporate Governance, and in the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers in the same practice area.
Janet is the co-author together with Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar, the Chairman of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia, of the “Legal Opinion On Directors’ Duties And Disclosure Obligations Under Malaysian Law In The Context Of Climate Change Risks and Considerations”, an independent legal opinion commissioned by the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI).
Janet is also the author of the Malaysia chapter of the Primer on Climate Change: Directors Duties and Disclosure Obligations published by the Climate Governance Initiative and CCLI. The Primer provides directors with succinct summaries of their legal obligations which apply in the face of climate change threats to the global economy and their businesses.
In addition, Janet is Head of Skrine’s established Environmental Practice, which advises clients on climate change risks, all aspects of environmental compliance, directors’ personal liability risks, licensing requirements and investigations by the Department of Environment of Malaysia (DOE) and legal aspects of water supply and water resources management. Major projects on which Janet has advised include Peninsular Malaysia’s first integrated scheduled waste collection, transportation and disposal system including the negotiation with the Government of Malaysia of the 15 year exclusivity agreement, a State water supply project for legal and institutional reform, and the joint Government of Malaysia and Government of Denmark Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) project which culminated in the drafting of the Kedah Water Resources Enactment.
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