Skip to content

Rahana Zurina & Partners

Menu + × expanded collapsed

Rahana Zurina & Partners

WHAT SETS US APART IS OUR ABILITY TO GO

ABOVE-AND-BEYOND.

Find Out More

1

At Rahana Zurina & Partners, our clients appreciate our commercial awareness and attention to details. As business expectations can be overwhelming at times, our duty is to keep you grounded and that you stay focused on your visions.

"Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?"

Robert Kiyosaki
"It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price”

Warren Buffet

1
2

About Us

Rahana Zurina & Partners is a Malaysian based law firm that brings its unique legal consultancy and advisory knowledge to its local and international clients. Founded by Siti Zurina Sabarudin, a capital market legal practitioner backed by 19 years of experience, the firm offers in-depth knowledge and know-how in the sphere of capital market, venture capital and private equity, technology and e-commerce and corporate commercial.

We drive your business opportunities to REALITY

As we are in business inasmuchas our clients, we truly understand that the true value in the business is created by the entrepreneurs themselves. As an entrepreneur, one would first assess the business opportunities, then develop and pursue it, and subsequently formulate a strategy and utilise all available resources to turn the recognised opportunity into income. As Steve Jobs put it so eloquently, an entrepreneur wants to create a dent in the universe. Whilst so doing, let us be your trusted legal advisor.

1

Our Expertise

Capital Market

We regularly advise companies as well as sponsors and corporate finance advisers, bringing together corporate finance and sector expertise from across the firm. The firm has considerable experience advising on initial public offerings, secondary issues (including subscriptions, private placements, and rights issues) and transfers between markets. Our clients include high growth companies and corporate finance advisers. Our in depth experience of acting for or alongside many of the market advisory teams in each jurisdiction including investment banks, sponsors, corporate finance advisers, and accountants means that we have a unique insight and knowledge of current market practice and expectations.

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Our lawyers have a deep understanding in licensing and registration guidelines having worked in various submission of applications for fund set-up and VE & PC firms set-up to the Securities Commission. We have also assisted investment managers in submitting fund registration in an offshore jurisdiction such as Labuan with the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Our expertise is often sought for fund set-up and to date, we have advised for the setting up of various funds, totalling to more than half a billion ringgit.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our legal team advises public listed companies and private entities to create value through mergers and acquisitions exercise. We initiate and carry out legal due diligence on the target companies to identify legal risks and highlight how these risks could be resolved or mitigated. We deliver the full range of services typically applicable to an M&A transaction, amongst others share and asset sales and purchases, legal due diligence, post-acquisition integration, corporate restructuring and share options.

Technologies & Platforms

Our firm has advised platform operators in seeking approval from the Securities Commission of Malaysia to be approved as recognized market operators (RMO) to operate crowdfunding and peer to peer (P2P) platforms. We manage the submission process throughout the entire application, from planning the milestones, preparing the rule book, through to operationalisation of the platform. Amongst the platforms that we have advised include e-commerce, crowdfunding (equity and P2P), fintech, cryptocurrency, invoice factoring and robo-advisory.

Company Secretarial

We offer a full range of company secretarial services in Malaysia. Our company secretarial services includes incorporation and set up of public companies and private limited companies, enterprises and other types of organizations like trust bodies & non-profit organizations, provision of registered office facilities, provision of assistance at the Board meeting and shareholders general meeting and documentation, advisory on compliance and regulatory process and procedures of the Companies Act 2016 and pre- & post- listing guidelines and listing procedures advisory in accordance with Securities Commission guidelines & Listing Requirements of the Bursa Malaysia.

.

Intellectual Property

Our lawyers have the understanding and capabilities to protect the value of your intellectual property, media, technology and telecommunication assets. We are able to assist you with the registrations, structuring, negotiating and drafting of creative specialist agreements for the development, acquisition, use and commercial exploitation of these assets, licensing and collaboration agreements, IT related agreements, technology transfer and acquisition agreements, research and development agreements, franchising matters and manufacturing and distribution matters.

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you UNFULFILLED"

Barack Obama

1

Our Team

Rahanawati Ali Dawam

Rahanawati Ali Dawam, is a senior partner of Messrs Abu Talib Shahrom prior to joining Rahana Zurina & Partners in January 2020. She advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, cross border transactions, private equity deals, corporate finance related works as well as debt capital market. The clients are mainly public listed companies (PLC) and government linked companies (GLC) and the State Government. She advises the board of directors of GLC and PLC, on inter alia, the corporate governance practices and compliance with the Listing Requirements of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad and other relevant statutory requirements.

She presently sits on the board of Rhone Ma Holdings Berhad, a company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities Malaysia Berhad, as an independent non-executive director. She is also a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee and Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the company.

Siti Zurina Sabarudin

Zurina graduated in 2000 with Bachelor of Laws from International Islamic University, Malaysia. Zurina was the former Head of Capital Market, Banking and Private Equity Practice Group at Messrs Azmi & Associates, and was a former partner at Zul Rafique & Partners. Her area of expertise is diverse, from capital market to technology practice. She has in depth knowledge and industry experience in venture capital and private equity deals, merger and acquisition, technology and information technology, corporate commercial as well as initial public offering and take over exercises.

Zurina is also a technology and crowdfunding legal expert, and is highly sought for legal services in this respect. As a recognition of her legal expertise, Zurina was named as a leading individual for Capital Market – Asia Pacific Legal 500 in 2015.

Chan Kit Kheong, Partner

Kit Kheong graduated from the University of London in 2002 with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree and obtained his Master of Laws (Corporate and Commercial) from the same university in 2004. He has been admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and holds a Certificate in Legal Practice. He is a member of the Bar Council’s Corporate and Commercial Law Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Amendments to the Legal Profession Act 1976.

Kit Kheong has been in the legal industry for more than 10 years. He began his legal practice in the corporate firm Zaid Ibrahim & Co (the biggest law firm in Malaysia) under the Singapore and Labuan practice group. He subsequently moved to Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad as legal counsel before establishing Kit Kheong & Co.

Kit Kheong has extensive experience in advising companies, banks and financial institutions on a whole range of corporate, commercial and banking transactions, in particular, on takeovers and mergers, restructurings, foreign direct investments, syndications, aviation financing, convertible loan stock issues and derivatives. Kit Kheong also advises on media and technology law and was previously counsel in the largest media conglomerate in Malaysia.

Amongst others, he has acted as Malaysian counsel for a syndicate of international banks in the financing of a property development in Malaysia, acted for a German bank on its Malaysian merger pursuant to its global restructuring exercise, acted for foreign clients relating to aircraft financing transactions involving Malaysian airline operators, including export credit agency backed aircraft financing transactions, and acted for various Singapore-based domestic banks and offshore banks in their transactions with Malaysian borrowers and security providers.

Toh Hanyang

Toh Hanyang graduated from University of London in 2015 with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree and holds a Certificate in Legal Practice. He has been admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2019 after having completed his pupilage at Messrs. Armiy Rais where he was exposed to general litigation matters and corporate transactions. At Rahana Zurina & Partners, Hanyang assists the partners in fund management, VC & PE related work.

Sarah Fouzi

Sarah Fouzi graduated with a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and was called to the Malaysian Bar in 2019. Sarah completed her pupillage at Albar & Partners and was retained as associate at Albar & Partners upon admission. During her stint at Albar & Partners, she was exposed to a wide range of capital market exercises in particular initial public offerings (IPO), mergers and acquisition and other corporate transactions, as well as general litigation matters. At Rahana Zurina & Partners, Sarah is currently involved in the acquisitions exercise of RM120 million by Widad Group Berhad (listed on ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia) of a concession company that manages UiTM Jasin, Melaka, and other due diligence mandates.

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and ACCOMPLISHMENT".

Norman Vincent Peale

1

Our Accomplishments

Our founding partner, Zurina has earned her distinction as a Leading Individual for Capital Markets in the 2015 Asia Pacific Legal 500 rankings. In addition, the firm has received national recognition of its outstanding commitment to the VC/PE and startups ecosystem in Malaysia. For 2 consecutive years (2017 and 2018), Rahana Zurina & Partners (then known as Messrs Zurina) was awarded with the 'Intellectual Property Rights Advisory Firm' by Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation and Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

News & Insights

Rahana Zurina & Partners
We are now Rahana Zurina & Partners
Proposed new commission for startups and venture capital in Malaysia
Exposure Draft on Risk Management Technology issued by Bank Negara Malaysia
Islamic finance as a tool for social justice
Evolution of Blockchain Regulations: The Malaysian Perspectives
Tealive vs Chatime : Settled Out of Court
Private equity and venture capital in Malaysia: Summary of regulatory framework
Zurinalaw participates in a panel session on startups organised by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation
Zurinalaw wins ‘Intellectual Property Rights Advisory Firm’ Award from Malaysia Venture Capital Association

Contact Us

1

Call Us On

+603 27120054

Our Address

11-3A, Binjai 8, Lorong Binjai, 50450 Kuala Lumpur

Send Us Your Query

zurina@zurinalaw.com

proudly powered by WordPress.

WHAT SETS US APART IS OUR ABILITY TO GO

ABOVE-AND-BEYOND.

At Rahana Zurina & Partners, our clients appreciate our commercial awareness and attention to details. As business expectations can be overwhelming at times, our duty is to keep you grounded and that you stay focused on your visions.

"Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?"

Robert Kiyosaki

"It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price”

Warren Buffet

We drive your business opportunities to REALITY