Lawyers

Celine Rangithan

Celine Rangithan

Work Department

Banking & Finance, Islamic Finance and Capital Markets

Position

Celine Rangithan is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice group.

Celine’s legal practice covers all areas of banking and finance transactions focusing on debt capital market financing, syndications, project financing, acquisition financing, and cross-border transactions, both conventional and Islamic. She is frequently involved in cross-border financing transactions. She advises a wide variety of clients, namely financial institutions (both local and foreign), trust companies, financial advisers, and corporate clients (both local and foreign), on the legal aspects of banking and finance and debt capital market, which includes on numerous occasions, advising financial institutions on their proposed structure of the transactions.

Celine has advised on numerous award-winning transactions. She has also been ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2021 and has been noted as Recommended Lawyer in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 under Banking and Finance for Malaysia.

 

Career

Having graduated with LLB (Hons) in 2002, Celine commenced her pupillage at ZUL RAFIQUE & partners in 2003, and upon being called to the West Malaysian Bar in 2004, continued her practice at ZUL RAFIQUE & partners. Celine was made partner in 2013. Celine used to serve on the Corporate Commercial Committee of the Malaysian Bar Council and now occasionally provides talks and gives presentations to clients, both in Malaysia and overseas.

Languages

English and Bahasa Malaysia

Memberships

Malaysian Bar

Education

Celine holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from the University of London. She was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2004.

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