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Mong Chung Seng

Partner

Banking & Insolvency

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Mong Chung Seng

Partner

Banking & Insolvency

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"Mong Chung Seng consistently demonstrates a strong commitment to client service delivery and invests significantly in building and maintaining strong client relationships."

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, 2025

"Great level of commitment, amazing level of understanding of nature of client's business, and integration of strategic thinking into the legal deliverables."

asialaw, 2024

Mong focuses on banking, corporate and commercial dispute resolution.

He advises and represents financial institutions in disputes involving corporate insolvency, enforcement of debt instruments and securities, land law, recovery of conventional and Islamic banking facilities, and regulatory issues. He also regularly acts in commercial, construction and corporate disputes.

Mong was recently ranked as a “Next Generation Partner” for Dispute Resolution by The Legal 500 2025. He is also ranked as a “Notable Practitioner” for Dispute Resolution and Restructuring and Insolvency by asialaw 2024.

Mong focuses on banking, corporate and commercial dispute resolution.

He advises and represents financial institutions in disputes involving corporate insolvency, enforcement of debt instruments and securities, land law, recovery of conventional and Islamic banking facilities, and regulatory issues. He also regularly acts in commercial, construction and corporate disputes.

Mong was recently ranked as a “Next Generation Partner” for Dispute Resolution by The Legal 500 2025. He is also ranked as a “Notable Practitioner” for Dispute Resolution and Restructuring and Insolvency by asialaw 2024.

  • Banking & Financial Services Dispute Resolution
  • Commercial, Construction and Corporate Dispute Resolution
  • Insolvency
  • LLB (Hons) University of Wales, Cardiff
  • Certificate in Legal Practice
  • Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
  • Advised and represented financial institutions in enforcement of securities, including recovery and sale of aircraft, agricultural and development land, commercial and office building, hotel, plant and machinery, and shopping mall.
  • Advised and represented a financial institution to oppose judicial management application by a company with debts in excess of RM400 million.
  • Advised and represented a financial institution in disputes relating to cross-borders letter of credit transactions involving RM150 million.
  • Advised and represented financial institutions and landowners in land disputes including successfully setting aside forfeiture of land and recovering possession of land.
  • Advised and represented a statutory body in disputes relating to lands with the value in excess of RM1 billion.
  • Advised and represented liquidators in creditor’s voluntary liquidation of a company with liabilities in excess of RM5 billion.
  • Advised and represented liquidator in compulsory liquidation of a developer of a development with GDV of RM560 million.
  • Advised a financial institution on winding down the business of its subsidiary by way of liquidation.
  • Contributor — The Malaysian Civil Procedure 2018 (Sweet & Maxwell Asia)
  • Contributor – Bullen & Leake & Jacobs Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings (1st and 2nd Edition) (Sweet & Maxwell)
  • Contributor – Law and Practice of Corporate Insolvency in Malaysia (Sweet & Maxwell)

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