Banking & Finance

Abdullah Chan & Co’s Banking & Finance practice is a trusted advisor to both domestic and international banks, insurance companies, government-linked entities, and public and private corporations. We provide strategic legal advice on a broad range of banking and finance transactions across commercial, financial, and governmental sectors.

Our team has extensive experience in matters including:

• Joint ventures and acquisitions involving financial institutions
• Banking regulatory compliance and advisory
• Acquisition financing
• Property and infrastructure project financing
• Asset and structured finance
• Aircraft finance leases and pre-delivery payment (PDP) financing
• Cross-border financing
• Early settlement and discharge of security
• Electronic money and payments systems
• Money services business regimes
• Remittances and digital asset custody
• Personal data protection and customer confidentiality
• e-Money licensing
• Cryptocurrency issuance
• Digital banking advisory in Malaysia
• eWallet issuance and compliance



We also regularly advise on a wide array of Islamic financing structures, drawing on our deep experience in Shariah-compliant financial instruments.

Our team is particularly distinguished for its in-depth knowledge of financial regulatory frameworks, including the Financial Services Act 2013 (FSA) and the Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 (IFSA). This allows us to provide proactive, compliant, and commercially practical solutions that keep clients ahead in a fast-evolving financial landscape.

• Acting as transaction counsel for the borrower, in a facility for the cross-border purchase and operations of one (1) Dassault Falcon 8X aircraft where the primary security for the facility is a mortgage over the aircraft (Ongoing).

• Advising a Malaysian company in relation to the financing of Bombardier Global 5000 Aircraft with Sabah Development Bank for the Term Loan Facility of up to RM121,500,000 (Ongoing).

• Advised a syndicate of lenders led by Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad, RHB Bank Berhad, Maybank Investment Bank Berhad and Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad on a RM1.1 billion project financing of a ferrosilicon smelting plant in the Samalaju Industrial Park, Sarawak.

• Advised Standard Chartered Bank Singapore on its US$115.0 Million Islamic Murabahah Facility to Baitak Asian Real Estate Fund I (Labuan) Limited, Kuwait Finance House and Pacific Star Investments Singapore to fund the Kuala Lumpur Pavillion project secured against inter alia Islamic Qardhul Hasan Loans.

• Advised Maybank Berhad on the RM175.0 Million Syndicated Term Loan and Bridging Finance to Paramount Corporation Berhad for acquisition of land and construction of Kemuning Utama new housing township.

• Advised Danaharta Managers Sdn Bhd a government linked debt restructuring agency on the sale of loan accounts and receivables by way of tender bid.

• Advised TNB Engineering Corporation Sdn Bhd in its AED87 million contract financing for work done for ‘Manazel New City’ project in Abu Dhabi.

• Advised BNP Paribas Najmah, Labuan on its Kafalah documentation for an offshore financing out of Labuan.

• Advised Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ on its Kafalah documentation.

• Acted as Malaysian Law Counsel to a foreign financier providing Pre-Delivery Payment (PDP) financing to a Malaysian commercial air operator.

• Acted as Malaysian counsel for Lenders in relation to a Pre-Delivery Payment Financing as well as the financing for the aircraft purchase, to a Malaysian listed entity, in relation to the proposed purchase of a new private jet.

• Acted as Malaysian counsel for Lenders in relation to the financing of a used private jet.

• Advised a Malaysian helicopter operator on a syndicated financing facility for its new fleet of aircraft.

• Advised a Malaysian entity on the proposed discharge of existing security and termination of existing facility, to enable the Malaysian company to enter into a sale of its private jet.

• Advising a Malaysian operator on the proposed global re-financing and new financing for its proposed new fleet of aircraft.
  

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