Singapore firm WongPartnership has formed an alliance with Malaysian firm Foong & Partners.

Kuala Lumpur-based Foong & Partners, led by partner Foong Chee Meng, is a 10-lawyer boutique firm focusing on corporate and capital markets work.

Foong set up his own firm in 2003 after leaving Malaysian firm Zaid Ibrahim & Co., where he had been a partner for seven years. Before that, he was a solicitor in the Sydney office of Baker & McKenzie.