Shazana Abdul Aziz

Banking and Finance

• Advising on a national supply chain finance platform which was initiated by the Ministry of Finance to assist the financial position of small and medium enterprises by providing financing via purchase of invoices through a digital platform.

• Advising the mandated lead arranger in relation to a USD2.6 billion facility to be granted to a Vietnamese company for the construction of thermal power plant in Vietnam.

• Advising the financial institution in relation to a RM1.3 billion facility granted for purposes of refinancing the customer group’s existing sukuk and financings. 

• Advising on the conversion of the existing syndicated facility from a conventional Ringgit Malaysia facility to a United States Dollar term financing facility under the Shariah principle of Commodity Murabahah (Tawarruq).

• Undertaking a standardization and enhancement process undertaken by several financial institutions in respect of its template documents. 

• Advising on several template drafting exercises for financial institutions pursuant to latest guidelines issued by Central Bank of Malaysia and internal directions. 

• Advising a development financial institution on cross-border financing for a development project in Okinawa, Japan.

• Reviewing and amending several financial institutions’ banking documents to ensure compliance with the Central Bank of Malaysia’s Policy Documents on Fair Treatment of Financial Consumer.

• Advising and preparing the template documents for an unsecured Shariah-compliant financing facility structured to be offered to Malaysian civil servants or employees under selected government-linked companies where the monthly instalments payment is collected by way of salary deduction through Angkatan Koperasi Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Capital Markets

•  Advising the lead arrangers with respect to the Islamic Commercial Papers and Islamic Medium Term Notes Issuance Programme of up to RM88.7 billion in nominal value guaranteed by the Government of Malaysia together with the upsizing exercises from time to time. 

•  Advising the lead arranger with respect to the Islamic Medium Term Notes Programme and Islamic Commercial Papers Programme of up to RM1.0 billion.

• Advising the issuer with respect to the Islamic Medium Term Notes Programme and Islamic Commercial Papers Programme of up to RM5.0 billion. 

•  Advising the issuer with respect to the proposed establishment of an Islamic Medium Term Notes Programme of up to RM6.0 billion. 

• Advising on the issuance of Redeemable Convertible Islamic Debt towards settlement of outstanding principal due to its financier which forms part of a debt restructuring exercise under the purview of the Corporate Debt Restructuring Committee of Bank Negara Malaysia. 

Corporate and Commercial 

•  Advising the investor on a strategic equity investment in a company, including structuring, documentation, and conducting due diligence for a hydrogen infrastructure project under Sarawak’s Kuching Urban Transportation System initiative.

•  Advising on the proposed acquisition of minority stakes in 11 target companies. 

•  Advising an agency on the proposed collaboration with P2P operators in relation to a proposed financing programme of RM100.0 million.

Real Estate and Construction

•  Advising a developer in the proposed transfer of project land in exchange for inter alia, construction of HQ and purchase of another land.   

•  Advising a developer in the proposed sale and leaseback transactions involving 4 properties.

•  Advising on the construction and lease of a specialist hospital. 

• Advising on the rationalisation plan undertaken by a government linked corporation for several projects. 

• Advising a fund on the proposed purchase of a plot of land for RM188 million.