'Ainnur Liyana
Ya'akub
"Emulate success.
Then exceed it."
Puan Liyana leads Liyana & Co. with intellectual rigour, strategic clarity, and an empathy she earned the hard way. She is Malaysia's go-to legal authority for business owners and high-net-worth individuals facing complex, high-consequence disputes: defamation, reputation attacks, company law, employment battles, and Muslim estate planning.
Dual qualified as a civil lawyer and a Syarie lawyer practising in Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur since 2015, she moves fluently between the civil courts and the Syariah courts on matters that many firms cannot cover under one roof.
She founded Liyana & Co. in Shah Alam and built it into a firm known for precision, discretion, and results — appearing before the High Court, Sessions Court, and Industrial Court, and engineering the legal infrastructure that protects businesses and legacies long before a dispute ever lands.
She is also the founder of Alyviate™, a business coaching and legal strategy platform for women entrepreneurs and founders, and a PhD candidate at UiTM researching the misattribution of online content.
Outside the practice, she is a wife and a mother, and brings that same fierce protectiveness home into every family estate and inheritance matter she handles. It is one thing to know the law on hibah and faraid. It is another to have sat, as a wife and mother herself, with what a family stands to lose.
Focused expertise, not a generic offering.
Defamation & Reputation Protection
Business Advisory & Legal Strategy
Muslim Estate Planning — Faraid, Wasiat & Hibah
Syariah Court Representation
Company Law & Corporate Disputes
Employment & Industrial Court Representation
Criminal Law
Legal Training & Corporate Briefings
Before the courtroom, there was a cash register.
Before the boardroom, a name tag.
First job. First lesson in discipline and dealing with people under pressure.
Semester break work. Grit doesn't take holidays.
Learned to sell an idea before she ever sold a legal strategy.
Liaised with a foreign Minister of Defence. Composure under pressure, long before it mattered in court.
First real taste of legal practice — conveyancing, land offices, and relentless attention to detail.
Learned the discipline of personal injury litigation from the ground up.
22 November 2013. The moment the title became real.
Sat on the other side of the table. Understood how insurers think, and how claims really get decided.
Criminal defence, banking litigation, and corporate work — back to back, city to city.
Qualified to practise in the Syariah courts. Civil and Syariah, under one roof, from this point on.
First seat at the partnership table.
Built and ran two firms while completing her LL.M full time.
The practice she always meant to build. Hers, on her terms.
That range — cashier to claims executive to courtroom to boss lady — is exactly why clients say she gets it. She has stood behind the counter, inside the insurer, and in front of the judge. Few lawyers have seen a dispute from every one of those angles before arguing it.
Standing, verified.
HRD Corp Accredited Trainer
Trainer ID 60300 · Valid 12 Dec 2025 – 12 Dec 2028 · Verifiable via HRD Corp
Syarie Lawyer
Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, since 2015
Civil Lawyer
Called to the Malaysian Bar since 2013 — and never looked back
A regular legal commentator on national platforms.
Budaya Melapor (2026)
Grand Lessons, Grander Aspirations (2025)
Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Joke or Crime? (2025)
Hibah, Iddah & Family Inheritance Disputes (2025)
Employer Salary Delays; Stray Livestock Liability (2025)
The Other Side of a Lawyer's Life (2024)
