Deepak Sadasivan

Deepak began his career as a legal assistant at the firm from January 1995 to December 1999 and became a partner in January 2000.

In the first 5 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.

He is particularly experienced in structuring and documenting Islamic financing transactions which include the world’s first exchangeable Sukuk, Malaysia’s first Islamic stapled securities transaction, Malaysia’s first municipal bonds, and the world’s first Green SRI Sukuk. He has advised on the financing of significant Malaysian infrastructure and energy projects, including the privatisation of water supply, independent power plants (having advised on most of the major gas or coal fired power plants in Malaysia over the last decade, as well as more recently solar power plants) and the construction of expressways, railways and light and mass rail transit.

Malaysian Bar, 1994

Bar of England & Wales, Lincoln’s Inn, 1993

LL.B. (Hons) – King’s College London

LL.M. (Hons) in International Financial Law – King’s College London