The Firm
We are a boutique law firm based in Selangor that focuses on environmental law.
The environmental law ambit is vast, diverse and dynamic, and covers practice areas such as biodiversity protection and conservation, natural resources sustainable use and management, pollution control, species and habitat protection, climate change mitigation, protected areas governance as well as environmental compliance and social safeguards.
Services Provided
Our firm is experienced in dealing with a diversity of clients such as international aid agencies, governments and their agencies, non-government organisations, foundations, private entities, and certification bodies. We work with in house expertise as well as other professional consultants towards developing and assessing legal and policy frameworks for our respective clients.
Our work experience extends to Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak and specifically we provide the following services in our legal advisory and consulting capacity-
Undertaking legal framework development and drafting of laws falling within the environmental spectrum;
Advisories related to environmental sustainability related certifications and compliance;
Advisories related to carbon rights, carbon standards, carbon finance and fiscal transfers;
Undertaking context and subject matter specific legal reviews and assessments related to the environment, natural resources and sustainable development;
Undertaking and assisting in the development of environmental and natural resource management policy frameworks and strategies at Federal and State levels;
If you wish to know more about our services and practice areas please do get in touch
OUR FOUNDER
Preetha Sankar
LL.B (Hons), University of London
Certificate in Legal Practice
LL.M (University of Malaya)
Advocate & Solicitor
Chevening Fellow
Preetha was called to the Bar in 1997. Starting out in the field of legal academics, Preetha soon found her way to her ultimate passion in life, environmental causes. Wanting to experience practical aspects of environmental conservation, Preetha joined a large national environmental conservation NGO leading and heading their environmental law and policy advocacy programmes.
After serving for many years there, Preetha resumed legal practice, armed with vast technical experience in the cross sectoral aspects of the environmental field and a deep understanding of institutional and legal aspects that underpin environmental workings in the country. These include the forestry sector, land use planning, the marine sector, international environmental treaty implementation, environmental governance, climate change, species protection, and conservation financing. In the last 10 years, her practice has involved consulting, advisories and legal opinions undertaken and rendered with regard to the environment at the Federal level, almost all States in Peninsular Malaysia and the Bornean States of Sabah and Sarawak. Legal provisions drafted by Preetha on Protected areas have set legal precedent.
Preetha was also, from 2018- 2021, appointed UNDP Malaysia Country Office’s Environmental Legal Expert working on diverse project portfolio across Peninsular Malaysia and the Bornean States. She is a Chevening Fellow in Environmental Governance and a former Sun Daily columnist providing commentary and observations environmental issues.
Steadfastly passionate about the environment but also deeply pragmatic, Preetha is constantly working towards finding workable and implementable solutions for all her clients and their stakeholders.
If you are looking for or working towards legal and policy solutions for our environment, Preetha would love to hear from you. As they say, there is no Planet B.