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Partner: Ashley Gwee Chai Lian
Quick facts
# Partners

2

# Other qualified practitioners

5

# Total number of lawyers

7

Languages

English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien

Key practice areas
Capital markets (asialaw)
Firm overview
GCO Legal (Messrs. Gwee & Co) is a corporate, commercial and real estate law firm based in Kuala Lumpur, advising international investors and businesses, including from China, on Malaysian investments and cross-border transactions.

Ashley Gwee heads the corporate practice, covering mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, investments, joint ventures and commercial advisory. Experience spans licensed moneylenders, money services businesses, payments, fintech, telecommunications, food and beverage, and entertainment. Working with local counsel, the firm advises on transactions involving Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.

Greyson Siow heads the conveyancing, real estate and financing practice, advising individuals, businesses, developers and financiers on property transactions, leases, tenancies, bank facilities, security documentation, licensed moneylending and consumer credit. As a licensed trade mark agent, he also advises on trade mark registration, brand protection and clients’ branding strategies.

The firm delivers partner-led, commercially focused advice grounded in local insight.
Key practice areas

  • Banking and finance
  • Corporate and M&A
  • General business law
  • Intellectual property
  • Investment funds
  • Private client
  • Private equity
  • Regulatory
  • Conveyancing and Real Estate
Sector expertise

  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Real estate
  • Technology and telecommunications
Address:
16-12, Mercu Aspire (Aspire Tower), No. 3, Jalan Bangsar
KL Eco City
Kuala Lumpur, 59200
Malaysia
Tel:+60 3 8889 3294 Email:Contact Us
2026 Edition
Capital markets (asialaw)
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Overview
Gwee & Co is a newly established Kuala Lumpur boutique founded by Chai Lian (Ashley) Gwee, formerly a partner at Wong & Loh, focusing on corporate and M&A and banking and finance. Despite its recent founding, the firm has quickly built a practice advising on mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, joint ventures, private equity and strategic investments, group reorganisations, and structured instruments including preference shares and convertible instruments, with particular strength where corporate transactions intersect with regulated operating environments such as consumer credit, payments, and digital lending. The firm's practice is partner-led and increasingly handles cross-border and regulatory-intensive mandates. Over the past 12 months, the firm welcomed Mean Zern (Ryan) Chong, joining from Yeoh Shim Siow & Lay Kuan to strengthen its corporate and banking capability. Ashley Gwee is the key contact at the firm.
Linked Reviews
Capital markets (asialaw)
Work highlights

Acting as counsel to the subscriber in connection with a RM 95 million preference share subscription, advising on the structuring of investor-side rights and protections, constitutional amendments, and the implementation framework for the transaction. The matter required not only subscription mechanics but also the coherent integration of class rights design and implementation sequencing within a sizeable private capital transaction governed by Malaysian company law. For a newly established firm, this represents a notable corporate finance mandate and reflects the firm's ability to advise on sophisticated equity-linked investments where investor protections must be embedded through constitution-based architecture rather than simple subscription documentation alone.
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