About Margenta
A practice shaped by the needs of creative work.
Founded in Sibu, built around media and entertainment law — Margenta supports the agreements and rights decisions that underpin creative careers in Malaysia.
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How Margenta came to be
Margenta was established in Sibu, Sarawak in 2015 by a small group of practitioners who had observed — over years of general legal practice — that the agreements governing creative work were often signed without being properly understood. Performers and writers regularly came in after the fact, once the terms had already taken effect, asking whether anything could be done about the clause they hadn't noticed.
The answer, most of the time, was that very little could be done at that stage. The work that mattered had to happen before signing, not after. That observation shaped the practice's founding principle: clear, early legal input at the moment an agreement arrives, rather than expensive remediation down the line.
Over the years, the practice has worked alongside independent content creators, regional television production companies, documentary producers, musicians, and digital media studios operating from Sarawak, Sabah, and across Peninsular Malaysia. The engagements vary — from a single agreement needing review before a performance contract closes, to multi-year portfolio advisory for an established studio managing rights across dozens of projects.
What holds the work together is a consistent approach: read the agreement thoroughly, explain the material points in plain terms, identify where the terms could be adjusted in the client's favour, and close the engagement with a conversation so the client can ask what they need to ask before responding to the other side.
Our Mission
Legal work that fits creative work
Margenta exists to ensure that creative professionals in Malaysia have access to considered, plain-language legal counsel at the moments that matter most — when agreements arrive, when rights are assembled, and when disputes need to be navigated carefully.
By the Numbers
The Team
The people behind Margenta
Dato' Lim Wei Sheng
Principal Advocate & Solicitor
Called to the Malaysian Bar in 2001 and has specialised in intellectual property and entertainment law since 2009. Advises production companies and established rights-holders on portfolio matters and rights disputes.
Siti Barakah Osman
Senior Associate
Focuses on talent and production agreement review engagements, with particular experience in agreements for digital content creators and independent performers working across Malaysian and regional platforms.
Richard Chia Joon Keat
Associate — Distribution & Rights
Handles distribution arrangements and chain-of-title documentation for production companies preparing for release or approaching financiers and streaming platforms. Called to the Bar in 2019.
How We Work
Professional standards at Margenta
Admitted to the Malaysian Bar
All solicitors at Margenta hold current practising certificates issued by the Bar Council Malaysia and comply with the Legal Profession Act 1976 and its subsidiary instruments.
Client Confidentiality
All matters are handled with strict professional confidentiality. Client communications and documents are stored securely and are not shared outside the engagement without written consent.
Written Engagement Terms
Each engagement is confirmed in writing before work begins, with scope, fees, and expected timelines set out clearly — so there is no ambiguity about what the engagement covers.
Continuous Professional Development
The team participates in ongoing CPD programmes through the Malaysian Bar and relevant industry associations, with particular focus on developments in intellectual property law and digital media regulation.
Plain-Language Commitment
Every advisory note is written to be understood without a legal background. Where technical terms are unavoidable, they are explained. Clients are never sent a document they cannot read and act upon themselves.
Fee Transparency
Fees are agreed in advance for each engagement. No surprise disbursements. Where scope changes, any fee adjustment is discussed and confirmed before additional work proceeds.
Our Values & Expertise
Media and entertainment law in the context of Malaysian creative practice
The legal documentation that surrounds creative work — talent agreements, production contracts, music clearances, distribution arrangements — often receives less attention than it deserves until a dispute makes the terms visible. Margenta's practice is built around the view that clear legal documentation protects creative relationships as much as it protects individual interests.
In Malaysia, media and entertainment work spans a wide range of contexts: Sarawak-based documentary production drawing on the region's cultural landscape, Peninsular Malaysian drama and digital series distributed across Southeast Asian streaming platforms, and independent music releases navigating mechanical royalties and synchronisation licensing. Each context brings its own set of agreement structures and rights considerations.
Margenta's approach is to understand the creative context first — what the project is, who is involved, where it is going — and then to apply the relevant legal analysis in a way that serves the project's direction rather than working against it. The aim is legal work that sits quietly in the background, holding the rights position steady, so the creative team can remain focused on the work itself.
The practice supports individual creators at early stages of their careers who are signing their first performance agreements, as well as established studios preparing a slate of projects for distribution across multiple territories. The fee structure is designed to be accessible across that range, with fixed-fee engagements so legal costs can be planned against a production budget from the start.
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Margenta does not charge for the preliminary conversation. Get in touch and we'll arrange a short call to understand your situation before any commitment is made.
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