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Deepak Sadasivan

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Adnan Sundra & Low


Level 11, Menara Olympia
No. 8 Jalan Raja Chulan
50200 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Tel: (603) 2070 0466
Fax: (603) 2078 3382
deepak.sadasivan@asl.com.my


Deepak Sadasivan graduated with an LLB(Hons) from King’s College, London, in 1992 and thereafter was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in July, 1993 and to the Malaysian Bar on 24th June 1994. He began his career as a legal assistant in Messrs. Adnan Sundra & Low in January 1995 and became a partner in January 2000.
 
In the first five years of his practice, he was 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 project finance, Islamic finance, derivatives, structured finance and securitisation.

Some of the notable Islamic finance and structured finance transactions that he has been involved in include Malaysia’s first synthetic securitisation, Malaysia’s first exchangeable Sukuk, Malaysia’s first securitisation of non-performing loans and Malaysia’s first Islamic stapled securities.