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Datuk Tan Leh Kiah (Datuk Francis Tan), is an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and formerly the Managing Partner, is a full time consultant of Azman Davidson & Co., Advocates & Solicitors since January 2009. He has over 35 years of working experience with the government and the private sector. He served as an Assistant Registrar of Companies in the Registry of Companies of the then Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1972 to 1976. After leaving government service, he served as the Group Company Secretary of Inchcape Group from 1977 to 1985. In 1986, he joined Azman, Davidson & Co and was subsequently made Managing Partner.

His area of practice includes corporate and tax matters. He has advised on business structures and takeovers and mergers, particularly from the aspect of tax efficiency. He also appears regularly before the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and the superior court on tax and company law matters.

He served the Board of EXIM Bank Berhad as an Independent Non-Executive Director for five (5) years from 2001 to 2006. He was a Member of the Securities Commission from 1999 to 2018.

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