Zaid Ibrahim & Co

Executive Committee

Managing Partner

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.

English, Bahasa Malaysia

• Advocate and solicitor, High Court of Malaya
• Advocate and solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
• Bachelor of Laws (Honours), National University of Singapore
• Notary Public, Malaysia