Albar & Partners

Abraham Tat Hon Teh

  Partner Abraham’s practice focuses on banking & finance, debt capital markets and real estate. Abraham has advised local, regional and international clients on a range of finance issues including assets and acquisition financing, project financing, mezzanine financing, ship and aircraft financing for both domestic and cross border transactions. In addition, he has had significant experience in a wide range of debt capital raising exercises involving the issuance of Sukuk, corporate bonds, subordinated debt instruments as well as perpetual bonds.

Cassandra Hogg

Partner Cassandra's practice focuses on Equity Capital markets including initial public offerings, rights issues, secondary offerings and private placements. She is experienced in M&As, take-overs, reverse take-overs, venture capital, corporate and debt restructuring, corporate finance and REIT transactions. She has also advised on the establishment of conventional and Islamic commercial papers, medium-term notes and Sukuk programmes in the Debt Capital markets sector.

Hooi Ping Seet

Partner Hooi Ping has extensive experience in corporate and securities transactions, canvassing domestic and cross border M&As, voluntary and mandatory take-over offers, reverse take-overs, joint ventures, venture capital, FDIs, divestments, corporate and debt restructuring. She has advised on a wide range of capital market instruments, hybrid and derivative products and capital raising exercises, REITs and privatisations. She is also well-versed in the field of corporate governance and competition laws.

Izian Idiawaty Husin

Partner Izian’s practice focusses on banking & finance, including syndicated & club-lending transactions, multi-facility loans, bridging loans, project financing, asset financing, share financing, cross border financing, offshore lending and subordinate debt instruments. She has handled a wide range of complex capital raising exercises involving underwritng and issuance of private debt securities including issuance of bonds, commercial papers and medium-term notes (both conventional and Islamic).

Lily Chea Li Tan

Joint Managing Partner Lily is one of the founding partners of Albar & Partners. Lily is the Joint Managing Partner. She heads the Corporate and Commercial and Equity Capital Markets practice groups, while also co-leading the Banking & Finance practice group. Lily focuses on large scale M&As and de-mergers, public take-overs initial public offerings, listings and de-listings, REITs, privatisation projects and joint ventures. She is highly experienced in sophisticated structured finance, asset backed securitisation and project finance transactions (both domestic and cross border), conventional bonds and complex Sukuks. With her extensive background, she has advised in many ground-breaking transactions which have won awards as some of the top deals in the nation and South-East Asia.

Narayanan Chandran

ConsultantDatuk N. Chandran consults in the areas of litigation and dispute resolution.

Natalie Suan Wan Peh

Partner  Natalie provides legal advice on corporate exercises and commercial transactions involving corporate and securities laws, with particular emphasis on M&As, take-overs, reverse take-overs and joint ventures, venture capital, FDIs, equity-linked offerings, placements, initial public offerings and general corporate advisory matters. Her portfolio spans an extensive list of international and local clients, including leading investment banks and financial institutions, multinational and public listed companies and private equity funds.

Niv Chiw Poh Lee

Partner Niv is an experienced practitioner in the areas of banking & finance, Islamic finance and debt capital markets. He has acted for domestic and international financial institutions, multinational companies and conglomerates in various corporate banking, Islamic finance and debt capital market transactions including syndicated & club-lending transactions, project financing, asset financing and share financing. In the area of debt capital markets, he has advised on the issuance of corporate bonds, Sukuk, asset-backed securities, subordinated debt instruments, perpetual securities and quasi-equity instruments.

Nurbaiyah Mohamad Salleh

Partner Nurbaiyah has experience advising local conglomerates on a range of corporate exercises including initial public offerings, M&As (involving public and private corporations), rights issue and take-overs, besides providing general advice on corporate governance and compliance.

Raiza Zakaria

Partner Raiza is an experienced practitioner whose practice focuses on banking and commercial litigation including disputes relating to director’s duties and money-laundering. Her experience extends to corporate insolvency, liquidation and receiverships and she also advises on capital reduction, schemes of arrangement, debt recovery and enforcement proceedings. She regularly appears to conduct hearings and trials in both the Sessions Courts and High Courts. Raiza has also appeared as counsel before the Court of Appeal on appellate matters and in matters involving injunction hearings.

Sharifah Dalilah Albar

Partner

Swee Loong Chung

Joint Managing Partner Swee Loong is one of the founding partners of Albar & Partners. Swee Loong is the Joint Managing Partner. He co-heads the firm’s Banking & Finance and Debt Capital Markets practice groups. Swee Loong has a track record of having advised on many mega and innovative structures in Banking & Finance (both conventional and Islamic finance) and Debt Capital Markets instruments, structured finance, asset backed securitisation and project finance transactions, some of which have won awards as benchmark transactions in South East Asia.   

V. Vijakumar

Senior Partner - AdministrationVijay is one of the founding partners of Albar & Partners. He is currently the Senior Partner in charge of the firm’s administration. He heads the Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice group. As a senior practitioner with vast experience in litigation, Vijay has conducted trials at the High Court in a broad range of civil and commercial disputes. He has also appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court (old), the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal, and arbitral tribunals in numerous complex, high stakes cases, some of which have been reported.