Albar & Partners

Banking & Finance, Capital Markets & Islamic Finance.

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).

Izian graduated with a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1999. She commenced legal practice at Messrs. Albar, Zulkifly & Yap in the same year.

In between legal practice, Izian was formerly an in-house counsel with a privately-owned Malaysian oil and gas company, and gained extensive experience in joint ventures and partnering transactions involving various foreign state-owned oil and gas companies.  She was admitted as a Partner at Albar & Partners in 2009.  

Izian has been involved in the following transactions:

Advised the principal adviser and lead arranger in the RM1 billion unrated medium-term notes programme established by Tradewinds Hotels & Resort Sdn Bhd, a leading conglomerate in the hotel and hospitality sector in Malaysia. Advised a leading local bank to revamp its standard documentation in its migration of ‘closed monies’ documentation to ‘open all-monies’ documentation; Advised the syndicated financiers in relation to a RM600 million syndicated term loan facility granted in favour of a FPSO and integrated offshore service provider for the global oil and gas industry to part finance its equity portion of a FPSO vessel charter contract at Tano Basin, off the coast of Ghana. Advised a group of international, regional and local financiers from the perspective of Malaysian laws with regard to a US$450 million multi-facility procured by a member company belonging to Measat Global Berhad’s group to part finance the costs relating to the construction and completion of the state-of-the art MEASAT-3b satellite; Advised the sole principal adviser and lead arranger in the Sukuk Musharakah issuance programme of RM2.45 billion by a telco giant; Advised the syndicate lenders in part-financing the RM4.5 billion merger exercise between 2 property and construction giants.

Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and member of the Malaysian Bar

LL.B(Hons), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.Certificate of Legal Practice.Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.