Accidents & Injuries
Gibb & Co. specializes in handling motor vehicle accident (MVA) claims, offering comprehensive legal services to clients involved in such incidents. Their expertise encompasses representing both plaintiffs and defendants in MVA litigation, ensuring thorough case preparation and effective courtroom advocacy. The firm's partners, including Zorinah Bt. Mohd Sobri, E. Ernest Balasingam, and Terence Naidu, bring extensive experience in insurance law and MVA claims, providing clients with knowledgeable guidance and representation. Gibb & Co. is committed to delivering personalized legal solutions, assisting clients through the complexities of accident-related claims to achieve favorable outcomes.
Bankruptcy & Debt
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive debt recovery services, assisting clients in reclaiming payments owed for services, goods, or outstanding debts from individuals and corporations. Their experienced legal team handles a diverse range of cases, including those involving corporate and retail banking, financial institutions, trading houses, and construction industry payment claims. The firm's services encompass the issuance of preliminary notices, enforcement of judgments and orders, and advising clients on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and negotiation strategies to achieve amicable settlements with defaulting parties. Additionally, Gibb & Co. provides innovative and economical strategies to manage and minimize clients' exposure to bad debts.
Business
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive corporate and commercial legal services, including company incorporation, joint venture agreements, share purchases, company liquidation, winding-up proceedings, shareholder disputes, minority oppression cases, injunctions restraining companies or directors, offshore company registration, partnership deeds and litigation, sale of goods, and contracts for medical services, equipment, and facilities.
Banking & Finance
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive legal services in Banking & Finance, assisting financial institutions with loan and financing structures, security documentation, and enforcement proceedings. Their expertise encompasses drafting and advising on security and collateral documentation, legal charges, loan agreements, master indemnity agreements, bridging loan agreements, Islamic financing documentation, and trade financing documentation.
Consumer Rights
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive legal services in consumer and commercial banking litigation, assisting clients with loan recovery, foreclosure proceedings, and hire purchase disputes. Their expertise extends to drafting and advising on security documentation, including legal charges, loan agreements, and master indemnity agreements. The firm also handles insolvency matters, providing guidance on winding-up proceedings and company liquidation. With a focus on practical outcomes, Gibb & Co. ensures that clients receive tailored solutions to their financial and legal challenges.
Criminal Defense
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive criminal defense services, handling a broad spectrum of cases under various statutes, including the Penal Code, Road Transport Act, Prevention of Corruption Act, Companies Act, Firearms Act, Dangerous Drugs Act, Employee Provident Fund Act, Social Security Act, Securities Industries Act, and Local Government Act. The firm's experienced legal team provides dedicated representation, guiding clients through each stage of the legal process to ensure their rights are protected and to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Family
Gibb & Co. provides comprehensive legal services in family law, emphasizing amicable resolutions over litigation. Their expertise encompasses drafting deeds of family settlements, handling divorce and nullity proceedings, and addressing matters of custody, maintenance, and adoption. The firm prioritizes guiding clients toward mutually agreeable solutions, reserving court proceedings as a last resort.
Employment & Labor
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive employment law services, assisting clients with workforce reorganizations and retrenchments to enhance operational efficiency. The firm drafts employment contracts and HR policies that comply with local legislation, prepares performance improvement documentation, and provides guidance on managing workplace discipline and misconduct. Additionally, Gibb & Co. supports clients in establishing domestic inquiry panels and represents them in Industrial and Labour Court proceedings.
Insurance
Gibb & Co. provides comprehensive legal services in the insurance sector, representing numerous insurance companies in matters such as motor vehicle accident claims, premium recoveries, and performance bond recoveries. Their expertise extends to general insurance issues, including fire, theft, and property damage claims, as well as professional indemnity and medical negligence cases. The firm also handles public liability matters and assists clients with the recovery of payments to third parties. Their dedicated team ensures that clients receive effective legal support tailored to the complexities of the insurance industry.
Intellectual Property
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive intellectual property services, assisting clients in protecting and enforcing their rights across various industries, including automotive and food and beverage franchises. Their experienced trademark team, based in the head office, manages engagements with the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) and handles litigation related to infringement and counterfeiting laws.
Lawsuits & Disputes
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive services in lawsuits and disputes, encompassing both litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods such as adjudication, arbitration, and mediation. The firm's experienced legal team assists clients in resolving a wide range of disputes, including banking, corporate, insolvency, employment, construction, land, sale of goods, insurance, motor vehicle accidents, and medical negligence cases. By balancing clients' legal and commercial risks, Gibb & Co. aims to resolve disputes efficiently and effectively, minimizing the emotional and financial toll on all parties involved.
Real Estate
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive real estate and conveyancing services, assisting clients with property transactions, loan applications for housing and development projects, and legal matters such as land conversion, amalgamation, subdivision, and partition. Their expertise extends to handling joint venture and development agreements, foreclosure proceedings, tenancy agreements, and eviction and distress proceedings for rental recovery. The firm also provides guidance on land forfeiture due to title condition breaches and facilitates land surrender and exchange with the State Government.
Corporate & Commercial
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive corporate and commercial legal services, assisting clients with company incorporation, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. Their team provides strategic advice on banking and finance, privatization, insurance, investment, and real estate transactions. They also support clients in establishing operations in Brunei Darussalam through local partnerships. In corporate restructuring, Gibb & Co. delivers innovative legal solutions for distressed companies, leveraging their expertise in dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and finance to address complex issues in workouts, rehabilitation processes, and solvent reorganizations.
Private Client
Gibb & Co. offers comprehensive services in trust and estate planning, assisting clients with the preparation of wills, establishment of trusts, and extraction of grants of probate or letters of administration. Their experienced legal team also handles contested wills, trust disputes, and the administration of trusts and estates, providing tailored solutions to meet each client's unique needs.
