Senior Associate Profiles
Lim Jia Min, Ashley
Background
Ashley graduated with an LL.B (Hons) from the National University of Malaysia and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2021.
Ashley is conversant in English, Malay, and Chinese.
Experience
Ashley’s practice focuses on real estate and banking matters, with core strengths in subsale transactions, business banking, housing development projects, and property financing. She advises and represents corporations, financial institutions, and individuals on acquisitions, disposals, leases and tenancies, and financing documentation.
She also has substantial experience in business banking and finance, including loan and security documentation, advice on financing structures, and regulatory or internal compliance matters. She works closely with financial institutions and corporate clients to facilitate documentation and completion of financing transactions.
Expanding into corporate and commercial work, Ashley has assisted in various due diligence exercises for Malaysian and overseas entities, including matters connected to foreign companies’ proposed IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions. Her experience across real estate and corporate matters allows her to provide well-rounded and commercially attuned legal support.
Notable Work Highlights
- Acting for financiers in offering various banking facilities to customers, including banking facilities amounting to over RM800 million for a single purchaser of industrial lands and the construction of the development project therein.
- Acting for the vendor shareholders of a company principally involved in manufacturing and supplying data centre support materials, in respect of the proposed disposal of their equity stake in the company at an indicative value of over RM200 million.
- Acting for a vendor in the disposal of a large piece of land in Johor Bahru to a Singapore-based company for a consideration of RM91.4 million.
- Acting for a state statutory body in the disposal of 4 parcels of land to groups of purchasers, with a collective transaction value of RM81.4 million, for the development of data centres.
- Acting for 2 purchaser groups in the joint acquisition of several parcels of land in Mukim Plentong jointly owned by 3 Singaporean families, with a transaction value of approximately RM69 million, involving complex ownership and coordination issues.
- Acting for a local company in the acquisition of 2 parcels of land in Seelong Industrial Area at a consideration of RM50 million.
- Acting for a state statutory body in the disposal of a piece of land in Johor Bahru for a consideration of RM49.3 million.
- Acting for a state statutory body in the acquisition of 2 parcels of land in Sedenak for RM33 million.
- Acting for a subsidiary of a public-listed company in the disposal of a factory in Pasir Gudang for a consideration of RM21.4 million.
- Acting for a subsidiary of a Singapore company in the acquisition of a factory in Masai for RM11.73 million.
- Acted for a subsidiary of a public-listed company in its lease of a factory in Pasir Gudang for a total lease consideration of RM8.3 million over 30 years.
- Acting for a subsidiary of a Singapore company in its lease of a factory in Pasir Gudang for a total lease consideration of RM4.8 million over 30 years.
- Acting for the vendor shareholders of a company principally involved in the manufacturing and trading of precision engineering parts in respect of the share sale agreement and shareholders' agreement pertaining to their disposal of almost the entire equity stake.
- Acting as Malaysian legal counsel for the proposed IPO of a Singapore company on SGX.
- Acting as due diligence solicitors in various post-listing corporate exercises.
- Acting for the vendor shareholders of a company principally involved in the provision of healthcare services, in respect of the proposed disposal of their equity stake in the company at an indicative value of approximately RM70 million.
- Acting for financiers in offering various banking facilities to customers, including banking facilities amounting to over RM800 million for a single purchaser of industrial lands and the construction of the development project therein.
- Acting for the vendor shareholders of a company principally involved in manufacturing and supplying data centre support materials, in respect of the proposed disposal of their equity stake in the company at an indicative value of over RM200 million.
- Acting for a vendor in the disposal of a large piece of land in Johor Bahru to a Singapore-based company for a consideration of RM91.4 million.
- Acting for a state statutory body in the disposal of 4 parcels of land to groups of purchasers, with a collective transaction value of RM81.4 million, for the development of data centres.
- Acting for 2 purchaser groups in the joint acquisition of several parcels of land in Mukim Plentong jointly owned by 3 Singaporean families, with a transaction value of approximately RM69 million, involving complex ownership and coordination issues.
- Acting for a local company in the acquisition of 2 parcels of land in Seelong Industrial Area at a consideration of RM50 million.
- Acting for a state statutory body in the disposal of a piece of land in Johor Bahru for a consideration of RM49.3 million.
- Acting for a state statutory body in the acquisition of 2 parcels of land in Sedenak for RM33 million.
- Acting for a subsidiary of a public-listed company in the disposal of a factory in Pasir Gudang for a consideration of RM21.4 million.
- Acting for a subsidiary of a Singapore company in the acquisition of a factory in Masai for RM11.73 million.
- Acted for a subsidiary of a public-listed company in its lease of a factory in Pasir Gudang for a total lease consideration of RM8.3 million over 30 years.
- Acting for a subsidiary of a Singapore company in its lease of a factory in Pasir Gudang for a total lease consideration of RM4.8 million over 30 years.
- Acting for the vendor shareholders of a company principally involved in the manufacturing and trading of precision engineering parts in respect of the share sale agreement and shareholders' agreement pertaining to their disposal of almost the entire equity stake.
- Acting as Malaysian legal counsel for the proposed IPO of a Singapore company on SGX.
- Acting as due diligence solicitors in various post-listing corporate exercises.
- Acting for the vendor shareholders of a company principally involved in the provision of healthcare services, in respect of the proposed disposal of their equity stake in the company at an indicative value of approximately RM70 million.
Admission & Education
- Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2021)
- National University of Malaysia (LL.B Hons)