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Client engagements

How clients describe working with Juara Partners.

These accounts are drawn from completed engagements — principals, company directors, and transaction sponsors who have engaged us on actual transactions.

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85+

Transactions Completed

4.9/5

Average Client Rating

96%

Completion Rate

12+

Years in Practice

From principals who have been through the process.

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Ahmad Tariq

Managing Director, KL

We came to Juara Partners three weeks before a term sheet deadline on a management buyout. The structural advice — share sale vs business transfer — was delivered within four days and was genuinely useful rather than hedged in every direction. They told us plainly what the tax implications looked like and why. We completed on time.

March 2025 · Transaction Structuring

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Lim Mei Shan

Founder, Petaling Jaya

The due diligence report was the best I have seen in fifteen years of doing deals. Ten pages of findings that actually needed attention, not ninety pages of document extracts. The risk heat-map let us go into SPA negotiations knowing exactly which warranties we needed to push on. I would not use another advisory for this kind of work.

February 2025 · Due Diligence

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Ravi Nair

Private Equity Principal, KL

Juara Partners was the buy-side adviser on an acquisition of a logistics business. They worked quickly, issued a thorough request list upfront, and flagged three employment law issues in due diligence that we used to negotiate a meaningful price adjustment. The post-completion filing coordination was handled without us having to track anything ourselves.

January 2025 · Full Transaction

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Noraini Zainudin

Director, Shah Alam

Our family business succession involved two siblings as vendors and a foreign buyer. The structural complexity was significant and the relationships needed to be handled carefully. Rashid understood that dimension without needing it explained more than once. The term sheet held through the entire SPA negotiation — we did not need to revisit the framework. That made everything smoother.

March 2025 · Transaction Structuring

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Tan Kok Wei

CFO, George Town

We engaged Juara Partners for completion and post-completion on an acquisition where the original advisers had handled the SPA. The signing manual was clear and the completion meeting ran to schedule. More importantly, the working capital adjustment dispute that arose three months post-completion was resolved efficiently — they understood the SPA mechanics well enough to advise quickly on a document they had not drafted.

April 2025 · Post-Completion Support

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Siti Badariah

Entrepreneur, Kuala Lumpur

First acquisition as a buyer — I came in knowing little about how SPA negotiations work in practice. Dinesh walked me through the risk heat-map findings without condescension and helped me decide which points to negotiate and which to accept with disclosure. I felt informed rather than told what to do. The transaction closed with a price adjustment I would not have known to ask for otherwise.

February 2025 · Full Transaction

Three completed transactions — context, approach, and outcome.

Founder exit from a precision components manufacturer — asset sale vs share sale resolved at term sheet stage.

A founder-owned precision components business in Selangor received an acquisition approach from a Singapore-based trade buyer. The buyer proposed a share sale; the founder's accountants had flagged potential capital gains concerns under the existing structure. The structural question had not been resolved before the first meeting.

We delivered a structural alternatives memorandum within five business days covering share sale, asset sale, and a restructured share sale with pre-completion reorganisation. The memorandum set out the tax implications of each in plain terms, coordinated with the founder's tax advisers. A term sheet based on the preferred structure was drafted within a further three days.

The transaction proceeded on an asset sale basis. Completion occurred eleven weeks from signed term sheet. The structural decision made at term sheet stage avoided a SPA renegotiation that would otherwise have been necessary when the buyer's due diligence surfaced the same concerns three weeks into the document phase.

Timeline: 11 weeks · Services: Structuring, DD & Docs

Buy-side due diligence on a software company — three material findings negotiated into a price adjustment and warranty package.

A private equity client was acquiring a SaaS company operating across Malaysia and Singapore. The vendor had provided a clean data room. Our client's concern was intellectual property ownership — the software had been developed by contractors over several years with inconsistent assignment documentation.

We identified three material issues in legal due diligence: IP assignment gaps covering approximately 30% of the core codebase, one undisclosed employment tribunal claim from a former developer, and a data processing arrangement that did not comply with PDPA requirements. Each finding was documented in the risk heat-map with our assessment of materiality and recommended SPA treatment.

The IP assignment gap and PDPA issue were resolved through specific SPA warranties, an escrow retention, and a pre-completion IP rectification programme. The employment matter was subject to a separate indemnity. The client attributed a 4.5% reduction in purchase price to the findings. Total due diligence and SPA negotiation period: six weeks.

Timeline: 14 weeks · Services: DD, SPA, Completion

Post-completion rescue engagement — completion accounts dispute resolved and SSM filings brought current eight months after a third-party completion.

A client came to us eight months after completing an acquisition that had been handled by other advisers. The completion accounts process had stalled, the vendor was disputing the working capital adjustment calculation, SSM filings had not been made, and two material contracts had not been novated.

We reviewed the SPA completion accounts mechanics, assessed the vendor's adjustment dispute against the SPA definitions, and prepared a written position. Separately, we mapped all outstanding post-completion obligations — SSM, Bursa notification not required, five contract novations, and three regulatory notifications — and issued a completion tracking schedule to both parties.

The completion accounts dispute was resolved through a negotiated adjustment two weeks after we issued the written position. All SSM filings were made within the following three weeks. Contract novations were completed within six weeks. The client's description: the business was finally in a state they could manage, rather than one they were still working out.

Duration: 8 weeks · Service: Post-Completion Support

Credentials and practice standards.

All principals hold current Malaysian Advocate & Solicitor practising certificates. Professional indemnity insurance maintained at all times.

Client and counterparty data handled under a documented protocol compliant with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 and Commissioner's guidelines.

Recognised by clients and referred by accountancy firms for practical, proportionate merger-review screening under the Competition Act 2010.

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