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Suhaimi Zainul-Abidin

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+65 6890 7711

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+65 6302 3179

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suhaimi.zainul@allenandgledhill.com

 

 

Suhaimi Zainul-Abidin is a Partner in Financial Services and is a member of the Firm’s Islamic Finance Practice Group. His general banking and finance practice includes acting for financial institutions and borrowers in domestic and cross border bilateral and syndicated loans, Islamic financing transactions and project, share acquisition and real estate financing transactions.

Suhaimi has advised on some of the most significant and ground-breaking Islamic financing transactions in Singapore, including:

 

the S$256 million secured commodity murabaha property acquisition financing facilities and profit rate swap arrangement for Sabana Shari’ah Compliant Real Estate Investment Trust in conjunction its Initial Public Offering in 2010;

the S$750 million term and revolving commodity murabaha financing facilities to Parkway Holdings Limited;

the structured murabaha financing facility to a Labuan incorporated property investment fund with Kuwait Finance House and Pacific Star as sponsors, established shortly after changes were made to the Banking regulations in Singapore to allow Banks in Singapore to enter into murabaha financing arrangements (Asian Legal Business (ALB) Structured Finance and Securitisation Deal of the Year 2006);

the S$1 billion Islamic Trust Certificate Issuance Programme of City Developments Limited, which was the first corporate sukuk programme in Singapore (ALB Debt Market Deal of the Year for 2009); and

the S$200 million Islamic Trust Certificate (Sukuk) Issuance Programme established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Islamic Finance news Singapore Deal of the Year for 2009 and honourable mention in the Asian-Counsel Deals of the Year 2009).

 

His transaction experience also includes advising:

 

Keppel Integrated Engineering on the limited-recourse project financing for its refuse incineration plant in Singapore under the Design-Build-Own-Operate public-private partnership (PPP) scheme (Thomson Financial’s Asian PPP Deal of the Year 2006);

a syndicate of senior and mezzanine lenders in the acquisition financing facilities for the acquisition of the Arysta Lifescience group of companies by Permira, which was the largest leveraged finance acquisition deal in Asia as of March 2008;

on the debt-push down takeout facilities in connection with the takeover of First Engineering Limited by a subsidiary of Affinity Asia Pacific Fund II LLP; and

the arrangers in the S$919 million land and construction financing facilities for the acquisition and construction of the Jurong Gateway retail and commercial development in Singapore.

Suhaimi graduated from the University of Nottingham with an LLB (Hons) degree and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2005 when he joined Allen & Gledhill LLP.

 

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