Jescey Jayanthi Lawrence

Jescey started her career as a practising lawyer in civil litigation and in a span of four years handled various civil litigation disputes including corporate litigation, defamation and industrial relations.

She then moved on to be in-house legal counsel with UEM Builders Berhad providing a broad range of corporate advisory work including drafting of commercial contracts. Thereafter she ventured into the broadcasting and telecommunications industry where she has over 14 years of experience as in-house legal counsel with Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd and its subsidiaries, Asian Broadcasting Network (M) Sdn Bhd, Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd and YTL Communications Sdn Bhd and its affiliates, providing advice on legal, regulatory, licensing and compliance matters.

As part of her legal and regulatory work in the telecommunications sector, she advises and drafts IT, network, mechanical and engineering, managed services, procurement, marketing and enterprise contracts, reviews consultation papers and questionnaires issued by the regulators and participates in industry agreements and efforts.

During her tenure in the broadcasting sector, she negotiated and drafted channel and content contracts with various international and local media partners, including HBO Asia, Disney Channel Asia, NHK Channel – Japan, Media Prima and RTM, and licensing, publishing and distribution contracts with various publishing partners including Top Gear, FHM and FourFourTwo.

She also conducts annual training programmes and internal sessions for corporates on various areas including the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, the General Consumer Code and the Content Code.