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Common Ground and GLT Law Partner Up to Provide Legal Support to Malaysian Startups and SMEs
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Petaling Jaya, 18 October 2018: Common Ground, Malaysia’s largest and leading co-working space and Gan, Lee & Tan (GLT Law), a Malaysian law firm, today announced its exclusive collaboration to provide legal support services to Malaysian startups and SMEs based out at various offices at Common Ground in Malaysia.
As part of the partnership, GLT Law will offer its legal support services in creative and innovative ways, such as encouraging Common Ground members to use its AI Assistant Chatbot, generate a free online legal health check report as well as to have a one-to-one consultation session with the lawyers at GLT Law.
The partners at GLT Law will also carry out monthly legal talks at Common Ground offices and set up a half-day legal clinic where Common Ground members can approach them to seek out preliminary legal advice.
GLT Law was set up in April 2018 and currently has 4 partners who were previously trained in some of the biggest law firms in Malaysia.
Edwin Lee, the Managing and Technology Partner at GLT Law said,
“Our firm was only set up this year and hence we are very much a startup too. We have advised and acted for many local and foreign startups and hence, we understand the challenges faced by other startups. We believe in humanizing the legal services and providing a holistic support to startups, to ensure their legal bases are covered and assist those who are looking to expand their business, in a much efficient and innovative way”.
The collaboration will aid Common Ground to expand its business support services and offer its members access to various professional services, including legal, tax, accounting, audit, etc.
“Having legal contact and services at Common Ground and made available to our members is part of the benefits of co-working at Common Ground with the aim to help companies here be the best at what they do”.
Common Ground houses an in-house café, event space, boardrooms, several smaller meeting rooms, quiet lounges, and three formats of workspace – hot desking, fixed desking and private offices.
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GLT Law is a law firm in Malaysia, focusing its practices in areas such as corporate and commercial, litigation, privacy and Internet, blockchain technology as well as real estate and property. It sets its direction to be an innovative and forward-thinking law firm by leveraging and incorporating cutting-edge technology into legal practice, in order to bring innovative solutions and provide better customer experience to its clients. More details at gltlaw.my.
Common Ground is the largest co-working space in Malaysia. Funded by Catcha Group, its doors are open to everyone from the general masses to startup founders every Monday to Friday, 8am to 7pm. It currently has 8 offices around KL, PJ and Penang and plans to open up a few more offices. Other than offering a co-working space, it also hosts events to drive collaboration and self-improvement. Common Ground also has its own app to connect its members with one another, while feeding them with the latest updates and events. For more info, book a site visit to Common Ground to explore the different pricing packages, visit the website at http://www.commonground.work.
