Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Regulatory & Compliance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Islamic Finance, Maritime & Aviation

Azman is the Managing Partner of Rahmat Lim & Partners and Co-Head of the Firm’s Financial Services Department.

He concentrates primarily on banking and finance transactions including syndicated and structured financing, securities regulation and debt capital markets, LBO transactions, strategic investments, and restructurings. He also advises on financial and capital markets regulation.

Azman is consistently recognised as a Leading Individual in Banking & Finance and Capital Markets by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific and as a Leading Lawyer in Banking & Finance and Capital Markets in the IFLR 1000. He has in various editions of Chambers Asia-Pacific been endorsed by peers and clients as being "very focused and client-friendly", and "really seriously very good for banking and capital market transactions", as well as being noted for the fluent structuring of Shariah-compliant transactions.

After being called to the Bar of England & Wales, Azman undertook a nine-month stint as a pupil in the chambers of R Neville Thomas QC. He was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1993 and joined Rahmat Lim & Partners in 2011.

English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association

Azman graduated in law from Durham University, England in 1989, and holds an LL.M. in corporate and commercial law from the University of London.