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.

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Competition/antitrust
• Corporate and M&A
• General business law

• Banking
• Financial services

• Bachelor of Laws (Honours), National University of Singapore

• Notary Public, Malaysia

• Advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya (2001)