Engy Tan has wide range of experience in real estate matters, including lands disposal and acquisition, lease and tenancy, and joint venture for development of lands, and hotels management.
Key Practice Areas
- Acting for multinational data centre providers in their lands acquisition in different States of Malaysia.
- Acting for a listed real estate investment trust in their multiple acquisition of factories in the State of Johor.
- Acting for liquidators and receivers and managers in their disposal of company assets, including to listed companies’ subsidiaries.
- Acting for a listed company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in its disposal of land in the State of Perak to China-based manufacturer.
- Acting for a listed company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in its disposal of lands within its master development in the State of Penang.
- Acted for a multinational data centre operator in their land acquisition in the State of Selangor.
- Acted for a listed real estate investment trust in its acquisition of hypermarket in the State of Perak.
- Acted for a listed company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries in their disposal of industrial lands in the State of Johor to Hong Kong-based data centre operator.
- Acting for the owner and landlord of a new commercial building in Cyberjaya, on their template rights of use, tenancy and lease agreements, and acting for them in the respective tenancies/leases.
- Acting in the endorsement of tenancies over lands in Perak and Kedah for construction of solar photovoltaic plants.
- Acted for a listed company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in grant of rights of use over marinas in the State of Johor.
- Acting for a listed company’s wholly owned subsidiary in acquisition of development rights in a commercial development.
- Acting for executors and administrators in vesting, and sale or distribution of real estate.
- Acted for a MNC in a collaboration to construct access road to its global distribution centre in the State of Selangor.
- Acted for listed companies’ subsidiaries in project management relating to joint ventures for development of lands.
- Involved in due diligence in respect of acquisitions of data centre businesses.
- Advised landowner and multinational hotel operator on hotel management related-agreements.
- Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2015)
- Certificate of Legal Practice (2014)
- LL.B, Cardiff University (2013)
Publication:
- Co-author, “Does a Developer’s Interest-Bearing Scheme (DIBS) cover the construction period or up to delivery of vacant possession under a Schedule H SPA?”, Skrine Alerts (December 2025).
- Co-author, “What is Common Property? Is “Exclusivity” or Extent of Usage or Benefit Relevant?”, Skrine Alerts (May 2024).
- Co-Author, “Lexology Getting the Deal Through: Real Estate – Malaysia 2024”.
- Co-Author, “National Land Code- - Chapter XIII: SECTIONS 130 TO 134 (updates), Chapter XIV: SECTIONS 135 TO 150 (updates),Chapter XV: SECTIONS 157A AND 157B (updates), Chapter XVI: SECTIONS 158 TO 175F (updates), Chapter XVII: SECTIONS 176 TO 194 (updates), Chapter XVIII: SECTIONS 195 TO 204H (updates) and Chapter XIX: SECTIONS 205 TO 213 (updates)” by LexisNexis (2024).
- Co-author, “High Court upholds By-law authorising Management Corporation to recover Legal Expenses against Co-Proprietors of a Strata Property”, Skrine Alerts (August 2023).
- Co-author, “Stamp duty relief for first-time home buyers gazetted”, Skrine Alerts (June 2023).
- Co-author, “Federal Court upholds jurisdiction of Homebuyer Claims Tribunal to hear split claims for distinct matter”, Skrine Alerts (March 2023).
- Co-Author, “Lexology Getting the Deal Through (GTDT): Real Estate – Malaysia 2023”.
- Co-author, “Can monies in a Joint Management Body’s Maintenance Account and Sinking Fund Account be garnished?”, Skrine Alerts (December 2022).
- Co-author, “No Necessity for Prior Partition Application to Terminate Co-Proprietorship or Other Existing Cause for Court to Exercise Power of Sale”, Skrine Alerts (October 2022).
- Co-author, “Homebuyer Tribunal’s Jurisdiction Limited; Homebuyers Beware! What You See May Not Be What You Get”, Skrine Alerts (June 2022).