Why You need us
We offer a broad range of banking and financial legal services. We take pride in providing dynamic solutions and timely services to lenders and borrowers dealing with financing and security matters, ensuring that the transaction is completed on time.
Our team, with considerable expertise and experience across virtually all types of financing facility (funded and unfunded) and securitization, is regularly involved in representing clients with respect to structuring, negotiating and documenting sophisticated and complex financing transactions, in matters ranging from real estate and asset-based finance, lease finance, Islamic finance, multi-lender syndicated loans to general corporate, commercial and consumer secured or unsecured lending.
In addition, our lawyers have advised and assisted some of the leading local and international banks and financial institutions, including Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs), in producing and updating their standard template banking and finance documents, banking products development and standardised terms and conditions. We are able to provide legally and technically sound advice, as our team handles all banking and financing matters from both commercial viewpoint, as well as the regulatory aspect.
Our team is also highly proficient in Islamic financing, advising Modarabas and Islamic banks on their Islamic financing transactions, including structuring, documentation and securitization, as well as development of Shariah-compliant products. Our expertise in Islamic finance include structuring on: (a) Murabaha, (b) Mushraka / Diminishing Musharaka, (c) Ijara, and (d) Istisna. Our formidable understanding of the principle of Shariah-compliant banking, coupled with our knowledge of current scholars' interpretations and the evolution of market practice for Islamic financing, enables us to work closely with Islamic financial institutions in devising innovative and leading-edge financing structures and products, ensuring that risks are minimized and our clients are able to leverage the opportunities available.
We assist and advise our clients in structuring, documenting and ultimately closing a wide range of financing transactions including:
We regularly advise entrepreneurs, start-ups, leading private and family businesses, and high net worth individuals and their businesses on the day-to-day matters of managing and operating companies in line with the legal and regulatory framework governing companies, thereby assisting them to navigate through complex, industry specific matters.
Corporate Advisory & Negotiation
Our corporate lawyers are recognized for their legal skills and the ability to navigate complex corporate matters with diligence. Due to our lawyers having an attentive and proactive approach to our clients' business needs, we are regularly engaged by a diverse client base, from start-ups to multinationals, family-run businesses through to non-profit organizations, and our counsel is sought on a range of company law matters, as well as representing clients in negotiations on the proposed deal and transaction documents before the other party to achieve the best possible outcome.
Our corporate advisory, building on extensive local and international experience, encompasses a broad range of areas, including:
We complement our specialist legal expertise with a client-centric approach, ensuring exceptional client service and value. In addition, we have established a suite of training programmes and seminars to keep our clients up-to-date with latest developments in regulatory regime as well as enhancing the understanding of our clients in fundamental business law principles.
Family Business
Our team, bringing together skills from a variety of legal disciplines, is highly proficient in providing comprehensive legal services across a range of key industries to family-owned and controlled businesses. Our multidisciplinary and meticulous approach ensures that we develop a formidable understanding of your business and the objectives of your family before providing clear, intelligent and pragmatic advice to manage and safeguard your assets and support the long-term future for your business and family.
Our expertise and services for family-owned businesses of all sizes across a range of sectors include:
We engage with our clients to strategise in a timely manner and review the plan regularly.
We engage with our clients to strategise in a timely manner and review the plan regularly.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As)
Our results-oriented team is focused on making transactions fast, smooth, and cost-efficient. Our transaction focus in the M&AS practice area is predominantly private company mergers and acquisitions involving complex structure and unique considerations, although we also routinely advise on business restructuring and reorganisation. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value throughout each phase of the transaction from diligence, structuring, and negotiation through execution and closing, providing seamless service to achieve our clients' commercial objectives. Our service in this area includes, but is not limited to:
Our results-oriented team is focused on making transactions fast, smooth, and cost-efficient. Our transaction focus in the M&AS practice area is predominantly private company mergers and acquisitions involving complex structure and unique considerations, although we also routinely advise on business restructuring and reorganisation. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value throughout each phase of the transaction from diligence, structuring, and negotiation through execution and closing, providing seamless service to achieve our clients' commercial objectives. Our service in this area includes, but is not limited to:
Startups & Emerging Companies
We represent and advise start-up and early stage companies across diverse sectors, and work with these companies from formation through to their development, growth and expansion stages. Working closely with these emerging companies, we advise on a broad spectrum of matters including selecting a business structure, assisting with their financing needs, whether debt or equity, and subsequent exit strategy and investment realization. Whatever the needs of a startup and early stage companies are, we have the capabilities and practical experience to provide the legal services essential to their success.