Deepak SADASIVAN

Introduction

Deepak Sadasivan graduated from King’s College London with an LLB (honours) degree. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln’s Inn in July 1993, and the Malaysian Bar in June 1994. He began his career as a legal assistant at Adnan Sundra & Low in January 1995 and became a partner in January 2000. He holds a masters in international financial law from King’s College London.

He has been extensively involved in corporate work including acquisitions, listings, joint ventures and corporate restructuring exercises, as well as corporate and commercial litigation. Since 1999, he has been primarily involved in capital markets and finance work, and has advised extensively on numerous transactions involving Islamic finance, structured finance and equity capital markets.

His finance experience includes (1) advising Danamodal Nasional (an agency of the Central Bank of Malaysia) and Salomon Smith Barney on the recapitalisation of various Malaysian financial institutions during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis; (2) advising the lead managers in relation to the issuance of USD750 million exchangeable sukuk with recourse to Khazanah Nasional, being the world’s first exchangeable sukuk, (3) advising on the first Islamic stapled securities transaction in Malaysia, (4) advising on the first municipal bonds in Malaysia (being also the first bonds to employ a parallel Mudharabah Islamic structure) and advising the Central Bank of Malaysia on the template documentation for an Islamic Derivatives Master Agreement.

His structured finance experience includes advising on (1) Malaysia’s first charge card securitisation, (2) Malaysia’s first non-performing loans securitisation, (3) Malaysia’s first synthetic securitisation, and (4) the first issuance of structured products pursuant to the Securities Commission Guidelines on the offering of structured products.

His equity capital markets experience includes advising on the initial public offerings of Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings, Maxis and PETRONAS Chemicals Group.

He is individually ranked as a band 1 lawyer in banking and finance and Islamic finance by Chambers & Partners, a leading professional in capital markets and project finance by Who’s Who Legal Southeast Asia, as an elite practitioner in banking and finance by Asialaw Profiles, and as a Hall of Fame lawyer in banking and finance, capital markets and Islamic finance by the Legal 500.