MALAYSIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Samantha Chiang Xin Li, Yee Yik Shien and Tay Zi Li, Zi Li & Partners
Zi Li & Partners is a Malaysian boutique law firm es- tablished in 2022, with collaborating firms in Vietnam and Indonesia, and relationships with firms across the ASEAN region. Zi Li & Partners has an active banking and finance practice, advising on the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. The firm is regularly engaged by banks, financial in- stitutions and corporates in relation to syndicated lending, receivables discounting, acquisition finance,
as well as trade and working capital facilities. Led by Yee Yik Shien and Samantha Chiang, the team is in- creasingly active in project and real estate financing, including the financing of industrial and commercial developments. Reflecting its role as a trusted Malay- sian counsel, Zi Li & Partners has acted on a range of high-value and complex financing transactions in- volving international banks and regional corporates.
Authors
Samantha Chiang Xin Li co-heads the banking and finance practice of Zi Li & Partners and also specialises in corporate and commercial matters.
Yee Yik Shien co-heads the banking and finance practice of Zi Li & Partners. She advises local and international financial institutions and borrowers on bilateral, syndicated and Islamic financing. Her experience
Prior to joining Zi Li & Partners in 2024, she practised at a renowned Malaysian law firm in banking and finance and debt capital markets, regularly advising arrangers, lenders, financial institutions, and borrowers on a range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions and debt capital markets transactions. She subsequently gained in-house experience at a leading international financial institution, where she specialised in derivatives and structured products.
spans a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including issuances of bank capital instruments, convertible bonds, perpetual bonds, government bonds, green bonds, and sustainability bonds. She also advises on equity capital markets matters such as private placements and rights issues. Before joining Zi Li & Partners in 2023, Yik Shien was a partner at a Malaysian law firm that was highly ranked in banking and finance, and capital markets.
Tay Zi Li is the founding partner of Zi Li & Partners. Before establishing the firm, he was executive partner of ZICO Law Vietnam and a partner at Zaid Ibrahim & Co, Malaysia, becoming the youngest partner in the
ZICO Law network at age 28. He has more than a decade of experience and regularly advises foreign and local sponsors, lenders, and issuers on banking and project finance transactions. Fluent in Mandarin, Zi Li advises numerous international transactions involving Chinese banks and Malaysian borrowers/ security providers.
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