In July of 2004, Marina joined the Companies Commission of Malaysia  (SSM) as a researcher servicing the Corporate Law Reform Committee under  the Commission’s Corporate Law Reform Programme. In 2007 she joined the  Corporate Development and Policy Division where she was the Senior  Legal Researcher in the Law Reform, Policy and International Affairs  Section. In June 2015, she became the Head of the Corporate Planning  Section.

Prior to joining SSM, she was a Legal Editor with LexisNexis  Malaysia, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. overseeing loose-leaf,  textbook publications on various legal issues. She also worked on  numerous projects in collaboration with the legal and medical  fraternity.

Marina was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor to the High Court of Malaya in 1998.