Skrine was founded on 1 May 1963 and is one of the largest full-service legal firms with an integrated range of specialist business groups providing a comprehensive range of legal services to a large cross-section of the business community in Malaysia as well as abroad.

Skrine was established as ‘Skrine & Co’ on 1st May 1963 by John Skrine, Stanley Peddie, Peter Mooney, William Donald Bewsher and Chin Yoong Chong. Embracing the advent of the computer age and modernisation of the nation, the Firm expanded rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, the firm has 38 partners, 5 consultants, 47 associates. Skrine has three principal divisions:

• Corporate Law
• Company Formation
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Dispute resolution
• Intellectual property

Skrine is the exclusive Malaysian member of Lex Mundi (Law of the World), a network of leading independent law firms in over 160 jurisdictions around the world and is also the sole Malaysian member of the Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC), a unique strategic alliance within the global legal community which consists of more than 30 major independent law firms, each with substantial presence and expertise in the pan-Asian region.

 

The firm was named as The International Who’s Who Malaysian Firm of the Years 2008 and 2009 by the Who’s Who Legal Awards.