Azmi & Associates is pleased to announce that it is the first law firm in Malaysia to have been granted a licence by the Bar Council of Malaysia to employ Pierre Brochet as Foreign Qualified Lawyer. Pierre is qualified to practice as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and as an Avocat before the French (Paris) Bar.

Pierre Brochet will be joining the firm as a registered Foreign

Qualified Lawyer for the following permitted practice areas: corporate

finance, capital market, banking & finance and derivatives.

He has over 20 years of experience in the Cross-Border Financing &

Derivatives Sector with firms such as Clifford Chance, White & Case,

McDermott Will & Emery and Greenberg Traurig, in London, Paris and

New York. He brings on board varied and wide-ranging experience in the

areas of securities issuances (including listed and publicly traded

bonds), investment grade and leveraged credit facilities, asset- and

receivables-based financings, structured financings (collateralised or

derivatives-based) and debt re-financings and restructurings, most of

them cross-border.

Pierre holds a Maîtrise in Law from the

University of Paris and an LL.M. in International Business Law from

King’s College London, and also studied law at the University of

Edinburgh. He is an arbitrator at the Asian International Arbitration

Centre (AIAC) in Kuala Lumpur, specializing in finance and derivatives

matters.

“We are really delighted that Pierre is joining us as a

registered foreign lawyer, bringing with him many years’ of experience

advising clients on corporate finance, capital market, banking &

finance and derivatives. Additionally, practising English law right here

in Malaysia brings a new dimension to our Firm’s service offerings.

This licence from the Bar Council is a new milestone in the growth of

our practice. We are at a point of our development, and the Malaysian

legal market is at a point of maturity, where it is the right time to

bring in the type of expertise that Pierre has.” said Dato’ Azmi, Senior

Partner of Azmi & Associates.

On behalf of the senior

management and partners of Azmi & Associates, our Senior Partner,

Dato’ Azmi invites you to join us in congratulating Pierre on his

appointment and welcoming him to our team.

Corporate Communication

Azmi & Associates

22 November 2018