MALAYSIAN LEGAL PUBLISHERS
Muttath KM Services (MKMS) Sdn Bhd
MKMS, with offices in India and Malaysia, serves the Asian legal and tax industries. MKMS publishes two of the most popular online legal publications in Malaysia: Malaysian Legal and Tax Information Centre web cluster, and Malaysian Legal Alert.
Lexis Nexis
LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents, with over 15,000 employees. Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.
Sweet and Maxwell
Sweet & Maxwell Asia's Malaysian office was formed in September 1997 with the acquisition of Central Law Book Corporation Sdn Bhd (CLBC) by The Thomson Corporation as part of Thomson's plan to establish a foothold in the Malaysian legal publishing scene. CLBC started publishing the All Malaysia Reports (AMR), Malaysia'a first weekly law report, in October 1992. The AMR remains Sweet & Maxwell Asia Malaysia's flagship product and is fast gaining a reputation as the preferred law report in the country. In 1999, in collaboration with the Malaysian Bar Council, Sweet & Maxwell Asia Malaysia started publication of InfoAlert which is a monthly publication of comprehensive indexed information of current reported Malaysian cases. To date, Sweet & Maxwell Asia Malaysia has three subscription products, 24 monographs as well as 2 looseleaf publications. In this short span of time, Sweet & Maxwell Asia Malaysia's products have gained recognition for providing practitioners with topical and affordable local legal publications. In addition to its local publishing, Sweet & Maxwell Asia Malaysia also handles the sales and marketing of legal publications of Thomson's Legal & Regulatory companies.
CCH Malaysia
CCH has been supporting professionals for almost one hundred years, and in Asia it combines its global experience with more than twenty years of local presence. With eight offices across six countries – Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, China and India – CCH is well placed to provide essential decision support for our customers. Its dedicated in-house editorial teams across Asia work together with external authors to create a range of products that is second to none in terms of quality, authoritativeness and relevance.
Gavel Publications
Gavel Publications, established in 2001, is a relatively new legal publisher in Malaysia; however, it comprises an outstanding team that collectively has over 30 years of experience in the legal publishing arena. The team is headed by Hamid Ibrahim – widely acknowledged as the ‘Father of Law Publishing’ in Malaysia, having started its first home grown law publishing company, the Malaysian Law Publishers in 1979. His pioneering work in this field involved the publishing and updating of Malaysian Statutes. Up till 1987, he had published more than 150 Acts of Parliament.