Nationality: Malaysian
Gender: Female
Age: 51
Date of Appointment: 20 January 2023
Membership of Board Committee:
• Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee
• Member of Audit and Risk Management Committee
• Member of Nomination Committee
Dato’ Leanne is a member of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia and the International Fiscal Association. She graduated from the Australian National University, Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws in April 1997. Upon her graduation, she chambered with Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill (formerly known as Lee Hishammuddin) (“LHAG”) and she was called to the Malaysian Bar in February 1998. She worked as a Legal Assistant in the litigation department and the corporate department at LHAG until February 2000, when she resigned from LHAG and took a break from her career.
In June 2000, she joined KPMG Tax Services Sdn Bhd as Tax Consultant. She was promoted to Executive Director and Partner of the company in May 2006. She has over 20 years of experience in providing corporate tax advisory services for domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, inbound and outbound investments, initial public offerings and cross border turnkey construction contracts.
Her portfolio of clients included a wide range of public listed companies and multinational corporations in various industries including those in automotive, real estate investments trust, property development and construction, oil and gas, freight and shipping, ports, industrial manufacturing, food and beverages, hospitality, plantation, securities companies, and banking and financial services.
In September 2020, she joined Mah-Kamariyah & Philip Koh (“MKP”) as Partner in the legal firm’s corporate, merger and acquisition department where she provided advice on tax related matters in corporate and mergers and acquisitions as well as advice on insolvency, corporate and commercial restructurings. In January 2023, she resigned from MKP.
She is a director of DL Partners Sdn Bhd, which provides business management consultancy services in relation to mergers and acquisition, corporate reorganisation, financial restructuring, capital fundraising via debt and equity, arrangement of financing for acquisitions, strategic business consulting and tax advisory. In addition, she is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Engtex Group Berhad and Inta Bina Group Berhad, both of which are listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities.