Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2018 - Winners Edition

Rodney D’Cruz Partner at Adnan Sundra & Low Website: www.asl.com.my Banking & Financial Services Law Firm of the Year FIRM PROFILE ADNAN SUNDRA & LOW was established in August 1975 and has been consistently ranked as a premier law firm in the Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Islamic Finance space in Malaysia. Its partners are well-versed in the full spectrum of local and cross- border banking and finance transactions, inclusive of acquisition finance, corporate finance, re-financing, debt restructuring other financing arrangements and have advised on the following market-pioneering transactions: • The world’s first exchangeable Sukuk (and also the largest ever exchangeable issuance in Malaysia; • The world’s first perpetual sukuk issuance; • The world’s first Green SRI sukuk issuance; • Malaysia’s first Islamic stapled securities transaction; • Malaysia’s first municipal bonds issuance; • Project financing of the first independent power utility in Malaysia; and • The underwriting of many significant Malaysian IPOs including Malaysia’s largest IPOs in 2015 and 2017 (to date), Asia’s largest IPO in 2012 and Southeast Asia’s largest IPOs in 2009 and 2010 respectively. The firm received the Malaysian Law Firm Of The Year award at the Asian Legal Business Malaysia Law Awards in 2016 and the National Law Firm Of The Year award at International Financial Law Review Asia Awards in 2007 and 2014 respectively. ABOUT RODNEY D’CRUZ A partner at Adnan Sundra & Low, Rodney was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1995 and is primarily involved in banking, securitisation, corporate finance, capital market financing, banking and corporate advisory work relating to debt, financing and Islamic finance. He has been involved in a number of notable local as well as cross- border banking transactions, including advising on the issuance of private debt securities and Sukuk by various Malaysian public-listed corporations and has advised a broad range of counterparties inclusive of lenders, arrangers, bondholders, issuers and trustees. He has also acted as Malaysian legal counsel in relation to several notable initial public offerings and listings on the Malaysian Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia), and advised on the financing of several significant infrastructure and energy projects in Malaysia. Rodney also has M&A experience and has acted as lead counsel advising on the tender, negotiation and acquisition of the Concession Rights and Assets of a Malaysian tolled expressway under receivership, together with the negotiation and finalisation of the extension of the said tolled expressway Concession itself, in the course of the transaction. MALAYSIA www.finance-monthly.com Finance Monthly M&A Awards 2018 60