About Us

WHO WE ARE

JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN was established by the like-minded people who share the same passion for law. The firm is currently run by 4 Partners, namely Joyce Wong Yan Yi, Datin S. Farah Gumash, Yap Teck Hui and Gan Soon Ong.

We provide comprehensive and personalised legal services to our clients with a focus on general litigation, business, commercial and property advisory and conveyancing practice.

Our office is situated in the heart of Mont’ Kiara within Kuala Lumpur’s district surrounded by prestigious communities such as the Hartamas commercial and residences, the Malaysian regent’s royal Palace as well as the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE). This office located within three blocks of building is part of a beautiful and vibrant shopping and commerce complex which includes the office of the Indian High Commission. As a result of this strategic location, we serve both clients from Malaysia as well as abroad.

Parking facilities in the basement as well as adjacent to the building and is easily accessible via cabs and taxi services.

OUR APPROACH

At JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN, advancing the law to meet the modern landscape is the principle we live by.

We are ready to offer competent, compassionate help with the clients’ legal problems with our expertise and the high standards we set in our work. We are focused and solution-orientated to ensure that our clients’ queries or problems are addressed in the quickest and most cost-efficient manner, with our clients’ interests secured.

THE TEAM

JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN believes that our people are our most important asset.  Without our team to support us in our work, we cannot deliver on our promise in providing efficient and accurate legal advice and service to our clients.

JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN is also proud of our multi-lingual team of support staff and solicitors who are well-versed with the latest technology we use to speed up the conveyancing process. Our experienced and qualified staff speaks various Chinese dialects, local dialects, Bahasa Malaysia and English, effectively ensuring that our clients are able to communicate with us without borders.

We are proud of having a group of ethical, friendly, down to earth, commercially focused and, importantly, support staff.

AN OVERVIEW

At JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN, we give our clients the best of both worlds –

  • our systems are online enabling our partners to be in the loop on all cases and using up-to-date technology to ensure the speedy processing of our cases as much as possible; and
  • a named person who works on each cases, whether buying, selling or re-mortgaging as well as an alternate named person who can be contacted to keep our clients informed of the current progress of the matter in the event the person in charge is not available.

We act for various corporations and private individuals in real estate matters as well as corporate and litigation related matters. Currently, JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN is the lead SPA solicitors for developments such as Kenwingston Square Garden @ Cyberjaya by Kenwingston Seven Up Sdn Bhd and Perumahan Penjawat Awam 1Malaysia (PPA1M)@ Bandar Mahkota Banting.

Our real estate experience includes mixed and commercial development projects such as Mahkota Square in Cheras developed by Cosmic G Sdn Bhd. And we work closely with real estate agencies and new niche market developers such as PMC Property Services (the developer appointed agency for Cascades Residensi @ Kota Damansara), Mega Harta, Affirm Properties as well as FDCV Group Sdn Bhd, Clean Land Sdn Bhd and Primarc Development (M) Sdn Bhd.

In addition, we act for developers to attend to the perfections of transfer for various residential and commercial development projects with Solaris Dutamas (Publika), Megan Ambassy @ Ambassy Business Park and Lot 167 & 168 Jalan Halimahton, Kuala Lumpur amongst others.

We have also been appointed by our existing clients who repeatedly return to us requesting for our services in securing their next purchase or disposal or tenancy as well as to attend to the perfection of charge on their behalf as regards their loans with the Lembaga Pembiayaan Perumahan Sektor Awam (LPPSA) as well as the following financial institutions:-

  • Affin Bank Berhad
  • Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad
  • AIA Bhd
  • AmBank (M) Berhad
  • Bank Simpanan Nasional
  • Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad
  • CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad
  • CIMB Bank Berhad
  • Hong Leong Bank Berhad
  • Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad
  • OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad
  • OCBC Al-Amin Bank Berhad
  • Public Bank Berhad
  • Public IslamicBank Berhad
  • RHB Bank Berhad
  • RHB Islamic Bank Berhad
  • Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad
  • Standard Chartered Saadiq Berhad
  • United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Berhad

JOYCE, FARAH, YAP & GAN is well aware of the stress and concerns surround the buying or selling of a property, and as such, we believe in educating our clients and providing easy to understand, simple and clear-cut advice in order to make this experience as smooth, efficient and worry-free as possible.

In line with this, our long-standing partnerships with the banks, financial institutions (including co-operative and building societies) and mortgage service providers ensure that our clients can hand us their property sale and purchase files and all related matters and we will take care of their needs according to each individual case.

Our experiences in litigation matters and exposure with governmental deals also enable us to provide additional value added professional services for all our clients, making us, our client’s one stop centre for their legal and professional needs.