Mr Muhammad Zukhairi Muhammed Salehudin > Zaid Ibrahim & Co (in association with KPMG Law) > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile

Zaid Ibrahim & Co (in association with KPMG Law)
LEVEL 19, MENARA MILENIUM
PUSAT BANDAR DAMANSARA
50490 KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia

Work Department

Zukhairi is a Partner of the Corporate Finance and Securities practice group at Zaid Ibrahim & Co. (a member of ZICOlaw).

Zukhairi is experienced in advising corporate clients in various sectors such as banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, property development, energy, shipping, logistic & warehousing, food chain, retail, venture capital & private equity. Zukhairi has been heavily involved in a wide range of corporate exercises including:

  • Equity capital market transactions involving capital raising exercises on exchanges such as Bursa Malaysia, Singapore Exchange, Hong Kong Exchange and London Stock Exchange;
  • Mergers & acquisitions involving publicly listed corporations and private corporations, either acting for the seller or the buyer, including advising on foreign direct investment;
  • Reorganisation and restructuring of publicly listed corporations and private corporations involving scheme of arrangement, capital reduction and repayment;
  • Establishment of Shariah funds, management of the funds, investments, exits and closure of the funds;
  • Corporate advisory on other areas of corporate exercise such as management buy-out, take-over, rights issue, restricted offer for sale, derivatives, business trust, employee share scheme and foreign equity offering into Malaysia.

Position

Partner

Career

Zukhairi joined the firm as Senior Associate in 2013. In 2019, he was awarded with a prestigious and highly competitive British Chevening Scholarship to pursue to pursue his LLM in Corporate Law in the United Kingdom.

Before joining the firm, he was a Senior Associate of an established corporate law firm in Kuala Lumpur. During his stint with the previous law firm, he was requested by PETRONAS to be seconded twice to its legal department in 2012 and 2013 providing legal support to the department. This gave him the exposures to the Oil and Gas sector.

Languages

  • English
  • Malay

Education

  • Bachelor of Law (Hons.), International Islamic University of Malaysia
  • Chartered in Islamic Finance Professional, International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF)
  • LL.M Corporate Law with Distinction, University of Edinburgh
  • Advocate and solicitor, High Court of Malaya
  • Chartered Professional in Islamic Finance

Lawyer Rankings

Malaysia > Corporate and M&A

Zaid Ibrahim & Co (in association with KPMG Law) is noted for its capability in advising clients on corporate advisory matters, in addition to M&A, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, capital markets transactions and corporate restructurings. Gilbert GanTan Wooi HongNadarashnaraj SargunarajStephanie ChoongJoan Ting Pang ChungMuhammad Zukhairi Muhammed Salehudin and Mohammad Iliyas Bin Razali collectively lead the team, while Idahani Ismas Ismail left the firm for an in-house role in August 2023.