KGP Legal Myanmar is a licensed-law practice specialising in corporate and commercial law in Myanmar. As part of the InterAsia Law Group with established offices in Singapore and an extensive network of branch and affiliate offices in Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, New Zealand and APAC, we are a team of experienced international lawyers, advisors, consultants and professionals with a proven track-record of consistently delivering high-quality legal advice and practical solutions for complex, high-value deals, projects and transactions for international and domestic clients across different markets, sectors and regulatory landscapes.
Our ability to understand people makes us who we are: we guide our clients through difficult issues in a personalized, responsive and effective manner from start to end. We build lasting relationships with our clients because we anticipate what they want, provide what they need and work hard to help them achieve their ambitions. Our clients include start-ups, SMEs, corporates and institutions, family offices, investors, HNWIs and more from all over the world. We are future-ready problem-solvers who provide legal and business know-how to help you deal with the diverse demands of building a business in today’s world and strive to deliver the results you deserve and advance your commercial objectives as far as possible by leveraging on our global reach and expertise.
We provide services across a full spectrum of corporate and commercial law from review and drafting of contracts and commercial documentation, mergers and acquisitions, data privacy and cybersecurity, intellectual property, employment law, tax advisory, to business consultancy and advisory services (including market entry and business intelligence in sectors including trading), company incorporation, corporate secretarial services, payroll and human resource services, regulatory and compliance, ESG compliance, and corporate governance.
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Managing Director
Commissioner For Oaths
Kenneth George Pereire is a corporate and commercial lawyer and the Managing Director of KGP Legal LLC.
He obtained his qualification as a Singapore lawyer in 2011 and has worked in Singapore and the ASEAN region for the past ten years. His work covers the full spectrum of general corporate and commercial law matters, from mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions for international and multi-national companies, including securities and other regulatory and compliance matters, down to the day-to-day legal concerns of enterprises in establishing and structuring operations, tax considerations, drafting all kinds of commercial contracts, licensing and distribution arrangements, employment law matters, leasing, and complex commercial arrangements.
He has assisted companies in diverse sectors such as telecommunications, software, property development, finance, construction, architecture and recently fintech and blockchain enterprises. His M&A experience has included assisting both foreign and Singapore companies to acquire assets as well as shares in other entities and conducting extensive due diligence for both buyers and sellers. He has completed an extensive asset sale and purchase transaction in India for a UK listed company and is currently handling multiple acquisition projects for Unicorn companies across Southeast Asia.
In the area of securities and other regulatory work, he has considerable experience in assisting hedge funds, private equity firms, financial advisory firms as well as private family office clients in obtaining the relevant licences with the regulator in Singapore (MAS) and has assisted clients with all aspects of compliance and regulatory matters in Singapore including preparing legal opinions to MAS as well as drafting compliance manuals for fund management companies and private equity firms.
He has extensive experience in drafting corporate agreements for investors including Shareholder Agreements and Investment Agreements with a focus on protection of minority interests by way of reserve matter clauses. He advises minority shareholders on their rights under the Companies Act (Cap. 50) as well as under contract. He is fluent in English, Malay and Indonesian.
Managing Director
Kenneth George Pereire is a corporate and commercial lawyer and a Director of KGP Legal Myanmar. His work covers the full spectrum of general corporate and commercial law matters from mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions for international and multi-national companies, including securities and other regulatory and compliance matters, down to the day-to-day legal concerns of enterprises in establishing and structuring operations, tax considerations, drafting all kinds of commercial contracts, licensing and distribution agreements, employment law matters, leasing, and complex commercial arrangements.
He has assisted companies in diverse sectors such as telecommunications, software, property development, finance, construction, architecture and recently fintech and blockchain enterprises. His M&A experience has included assisting both foreign and Singapore companies to acquire assets as well as shares in other entities and conducting extensive due diligence for both buyers and sellers. He has completed an extensive asset sale and purchase transaction in India for a UK listed company and is currently handling multiple acquisition projects for Unicorn companies across Southeast Asia.
He has extensive experience in drafting corporate agreements for investors including Shareholder Agreements and Investment Agreements with a focus on protection of minority interests by way of reserve matter clauses.
Director
Robert Lee is a Director at KGP Legal Myanmar. He provides strategic guidance and corporate growth advice to KGP Legal Myanmar.
He is a Senior Partner and founder of Robert Lee Law Offices in Hong Kong. He has been offering legal and business services to clients in Japan, China and Hong Kong for over thirty years.
He began practising as a lawyer in Toronto, Canada in 1979. In 1981, he joined the international law firm Baker & Mckenzie and came to Hong Kong with that firm in 1984. After becoming a partner in 1986, he resigned to establish Robert Lee & Co. in 1988, which is the originating company of what has now become the InterAsia Law Group. He has concentrated on the general practice of corporate and commercial law in Hong Kong, Japan and China, with significant transactional experience in London, Thailand, Vietnam, Canada and the United States. His clientele comprises individuals and corporations from diverse nationalities.
Originally trained as a Canadian lawyer, he is also qualified in England (1983), California (1984), Hong Kong (1984), and Australia (1986). He was based in Hong Kong from 1984-95, in Tokyo from 1986-2001, and Shanghai from 2001-04. Robert currently spends half his time in Singapore and the other half of his time in Hong Kong and Tokyo.