Albar & Partners

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BANKING & FINANCE

OUR PRACTICE / BANKING & FINANCE

Albar & Partners has excellent technical skills coupled with commercial feel and understanding. The Banking & Finance teams …… are very responsive and pragmatic. All members have exhibited extremely good interpersonal skills, especially when dealing with our operational and commercial teams.

- Legal 500 Malaysia -

Our award-winning banking and finance practice group offers a multitude of banking and financial legal services. We represent and advise both local and international financial institutions including investment banks, commercial banks, insurance companies, as well as borrowers cutting across various industry sectors.

We have the requisite skills and depth of knowledge to advise on and structure transactions which are customised to our clients’ needs coupled with a practical approach to balance between the parties’ objectives.

Our broad-based experience in banking and finance transactions include:

Corporate & Syndicated Lending
Islamic Finance & Sukuk
Debt Capital Markets
Asset Finance
Project Finance
Real Estate and REIT Finance
Leveraged & Acquisition Finance
Structured Finance
Mezzanine Finance
Derivatives, Interest & Currency Swap
Restructuring & Refinancing
Factoring Arrangement

Key Contacts

Chung Swee Loong
Senior Partner
SLChung@albar.com.my

Sharifah Dalilah
Partner
Dalilah@albar.com.my

DEAL HIGHLIGHTS

Advised Sapura Kencana TMC Sdn Bhd for the senior multicurrency syndicated facilities of up to USD 5.5 billion from a group of international, regional and local financiers.
Advised a borrower corporation to negotiate a multi-million Ringgit financing to part finance its acquisition of a group of companies from Yinson Holdings Berhad, a local oil and gas giant under the latter’s internal corporate restructuring exercise, in which Yinson Holdings Berhad disposed their non-oil and gas companies to the borrower corporation.
Advised Weststar Aviation Services Sdn Bhd, the largest offshore aviation transport service provider in South East Asia, in its RM 1.9 billion syndicated Islamic financing.
Advised Malayan Banking Berhad in respect of Islamic project financing facilities of RM 355 million granted to a consortium to part finance the construction of Langat 2 water treatment plant.
Advised Public Bank Berhad in respect of the acquisition financing of RM 488 million granted to Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust.

AWARDS

Asia Legal Business Malaysia Law Awards 2015:
Malaysia Deal of the Year for Sapura Kencana TMC Sdn Bhd’s senior multicurrency syndicated facilities of up to USD 5.5 billion.