Tan Hui Wen

Hui Wen is a litigation and arbitration lawyer, focusing on land acquisition and assessment disputes, commercial disputes, and aviation.

Hui Wen has experience in land acquisition matters, having acted for the acquirers as well as the land owners. She has represented State Authorities, State-owned conglomerates, and oil & gas companies, in resisting challenges to land acquisitions as well as in land reference proceedings on issues relating to compensation. She also has experience acting for ratepayers in challenging assessment rates imposed by local governments on lands, deepwater terminals, and refineries.

asialaw Profiles 2021 reported that Hui Wen is an “Up and coming litigation lawyer”. She has appeared as counsel in the Sessions Court, lead counsel in the High Court and Court of Appeal for interlocutory and leave applications, and as junior counsel in appeals at the Court of Appeal and Federal Court. She has also acted in arbitrations and arbitral-related court proceedings.

Hui Wen served as the ICC YAF Regional Representative for South Asia (2019 – 2021) at the International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrators Forum, where she was the sole representative from Malaysia. She currently serves as an elected member of the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee (2023/2024), Chairperson of the Kuala Lumpur Bar’s Young Lawyers Committee (2023/2024) and member of the Bar Council’s Legal Profession Committee.

Hui Wen has also authored publications on her key practice areas such as The Annotated Statutes of Malaysia: Land Acquisition Act 1960 (LexisNexis, 2021), Atkin’s Court Forms Malaysia – Land (updates) (LexisNexis, 2019, 2020) and Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia (LexisNexis, 2020).