Know the corporate steps before you act.
Tell us who you are, what kind of company you are dealing with and what you want to achieve. The Malaysia Corporate Navigator maps the Companies Act route, approvals, documents, SSM steps, deadlines and legal dependencies.
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What is the Malaysia Corporate Navigator?
The Malaysia Corporate Navigator helps you understand what may need to happen when you or your company want to carry out a corporate action in Malaysia.
Instead of starting with a section number, you start with what you want to achieve. Select your role, describe the company and choose the action you are considering. The Navigator then shows the approvals, documents, notices, SSM steps, deadlines and legal issues that may need to be checked before you proceed.
What problem does it solve?
Corporate actions often involve more than one step. A board decision may also require shareholder approval. A share issue may involve pre-emption rights, documents and SSM updates. A director change may depend on the Companies Act as well as the company's constitution. Missing one step can delay the transaction or create a compliance problem.
The Navigator helps you see the route before you act.
Who should use it?
Use it if you are a director, shareholder, founder, company secretary, officer, beneficial owner, creditor or other person who needs to understand what a Malaysian company may need to do for a particular corporate action.
Why use it?
The result is intended to help you:
understand the likely sequence of steps;
identify who needs to approve or act;
see what documents or notices may be required;
identify relevant SSM lodgements or filings;
check important deadlines;
identify when the company's constitution or another law may change the position; and
know when legal review may be appropriate before implementation.
Information to prepare before you start
You do not need to upload documents to use the Navigator. However, it helps if you know:
your role in relation to the company;
whether the company is private, public or foreign;
whether it is limited by shares, limited by guarantee or unlimited, if known;
whether the company is listed, if relevant;
what you or the company want to do;
whether the company's constitution contains relevant provisions, if you have already checked it; and
whether there is already a live deadline, dispute, Court process, demand or regulatory issue.
If you are not sure about some of these points, select the closest available answer and treat the result as a preliminary roadmap.
What will the result help you understand?
Depending on the action selected, the result may show:
the legal route;
the person or body that should act;
approvals and voting thresholds;
documents and notices;
statutory registers or records to update;
SSM lodgements and filing systems;
deadlines;
constitution or other-law dependencies;
consequences if an important step is missed; and
where Legal That Works can assist with implementation.
What does the tool not determine?
The Navigator does not confirm that your company is compliant and does not replace review of the actual constitution, statutory records, resolutions, transaction documents, Court documents or facts of the matter. Some companies are also subject to Bursa Malaysia, Securities Commission, licensing, insolvency, tax, land or sector-specific requirements that can change the route.
Why may legal review still be useful?
Legal review becomes more important where the action involves the company's constitution, shareholder or director rights, conflicts of interest, capital maintenance, transactions, creditor rights, Court proceedings, corporate rescue, insolvency or a live statutory deadline.
How Legal That Works can assist
Legal That Works can review the legal position, check the constitution and existing documents, advise the board or shareholders, prepare or review resolutions and transaction documents, structure approvals, coordinate implementation with the company secretary and handle Court or contentious work where required.
Result structure
A result may show:
whether the route is identified or needs legal review;
the ordered implementation sequence;
approvals and resolution thresholds;
documents and notices;
statutory registers/records;
SSM lodgements and filing systems;
deadlines;
constitution or other-law dependencies;
consequences if a required step is missed;
related rules that should be checked together;
the principal legal provision and the date the law was last checked;
where LTW can assist with legal execution.
