Gilbert Gan

Gilbert is the Managing Partner of Zaid Ibrahim & Co.  He is recognised as one of Malaysia’s top 100 lawyers by Asia Business Law, and is regarded by the International Financial Law Review, Chambers & Partners and Asia Law Profiles as a leading lawyer. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 has described him as a first-class practitioner.

Corporate exercises undertaken include:

• Take-Overs and Mergers of public companies including reverse take-overs, and Acquisitions and Disposals of private companies and businesses.
• Corporate Restructurings.
• Listings and other equity capital raising on Bursa Malaysia and regional stock exchanges.
• Exchange Traded Derivatives such as Structured Warrants.
• Exchange Traded Funds (ETF), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Private Equity Funds, Unit Trusts and other Collective Investment Fund schemes.
• Joint Ventures and Foreign Direct Investments.

Gilbert is a senior Malaysian corporate and equity capital markets legal professional with more than 2 decades of advisory and transactional experience in Malaysia and other ASEAN jurisdictions on a wide range of complex and high-profile matters.  His clients include major government-linked companies, global and regional corporations as well as financial institutions.

Some of his key engagements are:

• Advising Telenor in its proposed acquisition of and merger with the telecommunications business of Axiata by way of an asset acquisition, considered to be the largest telco sector merger in Malaysian history.
• Advising MBSB Bank on its proposed acquisition and merger with MIDF Group.
• Advised RBS group on its proposed sale by auction of its Malaysian financial subsidiaries and subsequent winding down in Malaysia.
• Advised RHB financial group on its successful restructuring and listing transfer from RHB Capital Berhad to RHB Bank Berhad, which included a rights issue and regulatory approvals to be obtained in 7 countries.
• Advising Affin Holdings Berhad on its restructuring and listing transfer.
• Advising RHB financial group on its proposed RM37 billion merger with AmBank group.
• Advised listed RHB financial services group in its proposed public acquisition and merger with listed CIMB financial services group and listed MBSB, to form Malaysia’s largest Islamic financial group, and largest domestic financial services group with potential market capitalisation in excess of RM80 billion.