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About Megat Iqbal & Co.
About Megat Iqbal & Co.
Megat Iqbal & Co. is a Malaysian law firm founded by Megat Syazlee Mokhtarom and Mohd Iqbal Zainal Abidin. The firm’s practice brings together legal advice, negotiation, litigation and transactional work.
We approach each matter with attention to the client’s legal position, the available options and the practical consequences of each course of action. Professional independence and care in handling clients’ information guide our work.
Our Story
Our Story
The firm was founded by Megat Syazlee Mokhtarom and Mohd Iqbal Zainal Abidin on the principle that legal representation is not merely a service, but a professional responsibility.
In its early years, the firm’s clients were primarily individuals, families and enterprises with close personal and professional ties to the founders. This shaped our culture of accountability, loyalty and personal responsibility to those we represent.
That ethos continues to inform our practice today. We do not regard our role as limited to providing legal opinions or conducting proceedings. We regard ourselves as entrusted advisers and defenders, responsible for standing with our clients through difficult, complex and consequential legal challenges.
We approach legal problems as strategic risk issues, not merely technical questions. We work with clients to resolve disputes while protecting their legal position and supporting informed decisions about what comes next.
How We Work With You
How We Work With You
Integrated advisory and dispute capability
Integrated advisory and dispute capability
We combine advisory, negotiation, litigation and appellate work within a single strategic framework. This allows us to assist clients from early risk assessment and dispute prevention through crisis response, injunctive relief, trial and post-dispute planning.
Experience in sensitive matters
Experience in sensitive matters
The firm has acted in matters involving public interest, reputational exposure, child protection, regulatory oversight and institutional accountability. These matters require legal precision and careful attention to their public, regulatory and stakeholder implications.
Governance and accountability
Governance and accountability
Our advice is grounded in careful examination of the facts, documents and applicable law. We identify the issues that matter, assess the available evidence and explain the options and risks so clients can make informed, accountable decisions.
Independent professional judgment
Independent professional judgment
We maintain professional independence, objectivity and ethical integrity, including in disputes involving power imbalances, public institutions or vulnerable parties.
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Our people
Our people
Muhammad Amar Shaaruddin
Muhammad Amar Shaaruddin
Senior Legal Associate
Muhammad Amar Shaaruddin leads the firm’s corporate, conveyancing and commercial advisory practice. He advises corporate clients, developers, financial institutions and investors on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, commercial leasing, project development, financing and corporate structuring.
His experience includes large-scale development projects, mixed-use and commercial developments, and property and financing transactions involving conventional and Islamic financing structures. He has advised on corporate tenancies for retail and commercial developments and on the structuring and documentation of investment and commercial arrangements for private and institutional clients.
Amar has also advised nonprofit and philanthropic organisations on legal structuring and regulatory compliance. This work includes assisting organisations with their formation, governance and accountability requirements.
His approach emphasises legal clarity, risk allocation and transaction governance. He works with clients to address the legal framework for their commercial objectives, taking account of regulatory requirements and the potential for future disputes.
Amar was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2013. Before joining Megat Iqbal & Co., he practised at Messrs Christina Chia Law Chambers, Messrs Rajendran & Deen, and Messrs Al-Farabi & Co., where he headed the Conveyancing Department.
CORE PRACTICE
CORE PRACTICE
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Real estate, conveyancing and development
Corporate and commercial advisory
Conventional and Islamic financing
Nonprofit governance and regulatory compliance
Megat Syazlee bin Mokhtarom
Megat Syazlee bin Mokhtarom
Founding Partner
Megat Syazlee Mokhtarom is a founding partner of Megat Iqbal & Co. and leads the firm’s strategic disputes, reputational risk and complex litigation practice. His work includes defamation, reputation-related disputes, regulatory risk, estates and inheritance disputes, injunctions, and litigation involving public perception and institutional accountability.
Megat has represented clients in civil, commercial and reputational matters in the Magistrates’ Courts and the High Court. His approach combines litigation planning and case management with mediation and negotiated outcomes where appropriate. His practice includes urgent, reputation-sensitive disputes requiring consideration of both the legal issues and the wider consequences for those involved.
He also advises and acts in strata management and common property disputes involving parcel owners, management corporations, joint management bodies and developers. His experience includes the interpretation and enforcement of rights and obligations relating to common property, accessory parcels, boundary encroachments and governance compliance in residential and mixed-use developments.
Alongside his litigation work, Megat contributes to public understanding of legal issues through commentary and analysis. He approaches legal representation as a professional responsibility, with attention to the legal and personal difficulties clients may face in complex or sensitive disputes.
Megat graduated from the International Islamic University Malaysia and completed his pupillage at Messrs Zuri & Co.
CORE PRACTICE
CORE PRACTICE
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Defamation and reputation-related disputes
Injunctions and urgent court applications
Strata management and common property disputes
Estates and inheritance disputes
Civil and commercial litigation
Mohd Iqbal bin Zainal Abidin
Mohd Iqbal bin Zainal Abidin
Founding Partner
Mohd Iqbal Zainal Abidin is a founding partner of Megat Iqbal & Co. and leads the firm’s litigation, construction, arbitration and commercial disputes practice. His work encompasses construction and infrastructure disputes, corporate and shareholder litigation, injunctions, winding-up proceedings and arbitration.
His practice focuses on complex disputes involving commercial, contractual and governance issues. He has acted in reported and unreported cases concerning large-scale construction projects, infrastructure disputes and corporate conflicts.
In handling these matters, Mohd Iqbal’s work involves developing legal strategy, managing procedural requirements and assessing the legal risks arising throughout a dispute. This approach brings together the contractual and commercial issues with the practical demands of litigation and arbitration.
Mohd Iqbal graduated from the International Islamic University Malaysia and was called to the Malaysian Bar in April 2009. He completed his pupillage at Messrs Shearn Delamore & Co.
CORE PRACTICE
CORE PRACTICE
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Construction and infrastructure disputes
Corporate and shareholder litigation
Arbitration
Injunctions and winding-up proceedings
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