Partner
Sasha Ravindran
Sasha is a Partner in the Firm with more than 16 years of litigation experience.
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Sasha is a Partner in the Firm with more than 16 years of litigation experience. She advises and represents clients across a broad range of contentious matters, including complex commercial disputes, shareholders’ disputes, directors’ duties, personal and corporate insolvency, corporate rescue mechanisms, contractual and tortious disputes, and committal proceedings.
Her experience also extends beyond Malaysia. As part of the team of instructing solicitors, Sasha was actively involved in, and attended, trial before the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the British Virgin Islands, the subsequent appeal before the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, and the final appeal before the Privy Council.
In addition to her legal qualifications, Sasha is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (MAICSA), bringing an added layer of governance and corporate insight to her practice.
She is a contributor to the first edition of the Malaysian White Book and the Malaysian Court Practice - Appellate Courts (Issue 40).
Sasha is known for her determined, focused and practical approach to litigation and dispute resolution. She is committed to protecting her clients’ rights, guiding them through challenging disputes with clarity, and ensuring they feel supported and confident throughout the process.
Sasha speaks English and Bahasa Malaysia and is conversant in Japanese.
Work Highlight
- Acted in high-value contractual disputes across a broad range of industries including:
- construction
- technology
- broadcasting
- maritime
- commodities trading
- commercial property
involving inter alia shareholders’ agreements, share sale agreements, asset acquisition agreements, development agreements, service agreements, sales contracts, commission agreements, sale and purchase agreements, employment contracts, and non-compete clauses.
- Acted in contentious company law actions and remedies:
- Shareholders’ disputes – including as instructing solicitors for a multi-jurisdictional shareholders’ dispute involving an East Malaysia family conglomerate, which involved more than 60 suits in the courts of Malaysia, Singapore, and the British Virgin Islands, including the Privy Council
- Directors’ duties including breach of fiduciary duties, removal of directors, and vacancy of office
- Breach of Memorandum and Articles of Association
- Corporate insolvency including winding-up on just and equitable grounds and matters involving Labuan entities
- Corporate rescue mechanisms including judicial management involving multiple subsidiaries of a public listed company, and successfully resisting a judicial management application on grounds of abuse of process and having the director involved found guilty of contempt for interfering in the due administration of justice
- Injunctive reliefs including Fortuna injunction, Mareva injunction, and Erinford injunction, and prohibitory orders
- Management of assets of dissolved companies
- Acted in various tortious disputes including:
- Professional negligence
- Conspiracy to injure
- Civil fraud
- Forgery of financial instruments
- Conversion
- Acted in execution and enforcement proceedings including:
- Execution against the government
- Committal proceedings
- Judgment debtor summonses
- Orders for sale
- Other areas of experience:
- Personal insolvency
- Judicial review
- Quantum meruit claims
- Claims relating to entry / removal of caveats
- Acted in contested interlocutory applications / remedies including summary disposals, striking-out proceedings, discovery applications, applications to cross-examine deponents of affidavits, stay pending arbitration, stay pending appeal and stay of proceedings.
- Acted as counsel and co-counsel in appellate proceedings including:
- successfully appealing against the amendment of pleadings by a shareholder to add a derivative action which contravened the rule against reflective loss (Mak Siew Wei v Yeoh Eng Kong & Other Appeals [2019] 7 CLJ 470);
- successfully securing leave to adduce fresh evidence on appeal on grounds of concealment in the High Court which was held to be an exception to the requirement of reasonable diligence (Rockwills Trustee Berhad & Ors v Code Brilliant Sdn Bhd & Anor [2025] CLJU 1120); and
- successfully setting aside an award of damages of RM1.4 million for the entry of caveats over land on grounds that it amounted to double recovery / unjust enrichment wherein the matter was remitted to the High Court for damages to be assessed.
- Assisted the Malaysian Bar in judicial review proceedings against the decision of the Attorney-General to apply for a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) for Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons), University of the West of England, Bristol (2006)
- Certificate of Legal Practice (2007)
- Chartered Secretary and Chartered Governance Professional of the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (MAICSA) (2008)
- Admitted to the Malaysian Bar (2010)
Publications
- Malaysian Court Practice - Appellate Courts (Issue 40), LexisNexis (contributor)
- Malaysian White Book (First Edition) (contributor)
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