Overview

Acted for Ping Petroleum on its entry into a Late-Life Asset PSC with PETRONAS in respect of Abu Cluster Offshore Peninsular Malaysia; and on its entry into PSC with PETRONAS for development and production of Meranti Cluster in offshore Peninsular Malaysia and A Cluster off the coast of Sarawak
 

Advised GE Oil and Gas in respect of its joint venture with SapuraKencana (now known as Sapura Energy) for the establishment of SapuraKencana GE Oil & Gas Services Sdn Bhd for the provision of after-sale services of rotating oil and gas equipment that GE’s Oil and Gas business division has sold or will sell to its customers.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for Newfield Exploration Company in respect of its disposal of its oil & gas assets in Malaysia to SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad for USD896 million.
 

Advised Halliburton on its joint venture with Dialog Group Berhad and subsequent entry by the joint venture entity into an oilfield services agreement with PETRONAS Carigali, valued at USD1.2 billion in order to enhance the oil recovery at the Bayan Field, offshore of Malaysia.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for Murphy Oil Corporation in respect of the sale of 30% of its oil & gas assets in Malaysia to PT Pertamina in a deal valued at USD2 billion.
 

Advised the Energy Commission on the establishment of the end-user electricity tariff stabilisation fund.
 

Advised various international trading corporations on trading petroleum products and various other commodities in Malaysia.
 

Advised numerous international oil & gas E&P companies on matters relating to PSC/JOA negotiations, farm-ins, government liaison, procurement, sole risk projects and other matters relating to their domestic operations.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for PTT plc, the national oil company of Thailand on the Malaysian law aspects of its acquisition of a 10 percent stake in liquefaction plant MLNG Train 9.
 

Acted as lead counsel for Reach Energy Berhad on its USD154.9 million acquisition of a 60% indirect interest in five subsoil assets in Kazakhstan and debt capitalisation exercise with additional listing of 1.03 billion shares.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for Carlyle International Energy Fund in connection with its acquisition of an interest in Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.U (CEPSA), a Spanish integrated oil & gas company wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company PJSC. 
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel in for Santos in connection with the disposal its Southeast Asian assets to London-listed Ophir Energy.
 

Advised BP on its entry into a long term storage agreement with Dialog Terminals Sdn Bhd and Pengerang Terminals (Five) Sdn Bhd.
 

Acted for 5 bidders in connection with their bids under the Energy Commission Malaysia’s Large Scale Solar Photovoltaic Plant Program Phase 3.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for OMV Aktiengesellschaft (“OMV”) on Malaysian law aspects of OMV’s strategic joint-venture partnership with Sapura Energy Berhad which involves OMV acquiring a 50% share of Sapura’s exploration and production business in a transaction with a reported value of up to USD975 million.
 

Acted for Murphy Oil Corporation on Malaysian law aspects of the sale of its Malaysian E&P business comprising participating interest in 7 production sharing contracts to PTT Exploration and Production Public Company (PTTEP) and country exit with a transaction value of USD2.13 billion.
 

Acted for Halliburton in connection with its sale of part of its interest in Halliburton Bayan Petroleum Sdn Bhd to Dialog Group Berhad, the holder of the comprehensive offshore services agreement (operatorship agreement) for the Bayan Field.
 

Advised a shortlisted bidder on the potential acquisition of Exxonmobil’s Peninsular Malaysia upstream assets pursuant to a formal process launched by Exxon.
 

Acted as lead counsel to International Petroleum Corporation on its acquisition of Petronas Carigali’s interest in the Bertam Production Sharing Contract.
 

Malaysian counsel to SapuraOMV on its sale of peninsular Malaysia assets to Jadestone.
 

Advised Repsol Exploracion SA as Malaysian counsel on the divestment process in connection with its Malaysian and Vietnamese upstream assets to Hibiscus Petroleum.

Acted as Malaysian counsel for Jennmar Holdings LLC in relation to its APAC expansion through the conditional acquisition of a majority stake in Dynamic Mesh & Wire Industries, together with the acquisition of a majority stake in an Australian company, Australian Steel and Wire.
 

Advised Syarikat Takaful Malaysia on all aspects of its restructuring of its composite takaful business into distinct operating entities for family and general takaful respectively.
 

Acted for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad, a government linked private equity firm in its acquisition of a strategic stake in Al-Ikhsan Sports, a multi-brand sports apparel retailer.
 

Acted as lead counsel for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad, a government linked private equity firm in its acquisition of the Davex Group, a luminaire designer, consultancy and manufacturer with operations in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.
 

Acted as lead counsel for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad, a government linked private equity firm in its acquisition of a 70% stake in Flexi Versa Group Sdn Bhd for an enterprise value of RM330 million.
 

Advised Panasonic on the sale of its Malaysian subsidiary, Panasonic Energy Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. to GS-Solar (China) Company Ltd.
 

Acted for Industrialization & Energy Services Company (TAQA), a Saudi based specialised oilfield equipment and service provider on Malaysian law elements in respect of its acquisition of the entire issued share capital in Tendeka B.V., an engineering and manufacturing company which specializes in offering reservoir monitoring and optimization solutions.
 

Lead counsel for acquisition of Vietnamese and Malaysian solar assets by Leader Energy in competitive bid process.
 

Acted for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad, a government linked private equity firm on the sale of its strategic stake in Tranglo, a licensed cross border payment platform provider to TNG Fintech.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for Essentra Plc in respect of the acquisition of the entire assets and liabilities of Abric Berhad, a leading global manufacturer of security seals.
 

Advised Permodalan Nasional Berhad, the Malaysian government’s investment vehicle in connection with its acquisition of the SILK Highway.
 

Acted as Malaysian counsel for Constantia Flexibles, on the sale of its global labels division to Multi-Color Corporation for an enterprise value of approximately €1.15 billion (USD1.3 billion).
 

Acted as lead counsel for Zurich General Takaful Malaysia’s acquisition of the entire general takaful business of HSBC Amanah Takaful (Malaysia) Berhad.
 

Acted for Hope Education Group in connection with its acquisition of the Inti Education Group, which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in business and law, computing and information technology, engineering and technology, languages and liberal arts, and applied sciences and mathematics with more than 13,000 students at seven campuses.
 

Acted for BP plc on Malaysia aspects of its USD5 billion sale of its global aromatics, acetyls and related businesses to INEOS.
 

Acted for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad as lead counsel in respect of the acquisition of 51% shares of Xenergi Sdn. Bhd. through its portfolio company Davex (M) Sdn. Bhd. to facilitate Ekuinas’ diversification and expansion into energy solutions business.
 

Lead counsel for OMYA (Schweiz) AG - in respect of OMYA’s acquisition of Prima Inter- Chem Sdn. Bhd., a diversified distributor of ingredients and specialty chemicals in Malaysia and Indonesia
 

Acted for International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) – in the Global Spin Off of Managed Infrastructure Services business of IBM to Kyndryl. The spin-off of the managed infrastructure services business into Kyndryl Inc is now listed on NYSE.
 

Acted for Halliburton for its acquisition of Resoptima group of companies.
 

Acted for Aker AS in Aker’s sale of subsea business globally to Schlumberger. Skrine is engaged as Malaysian transaction counsel.
 

Acted as counsel to Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited (“SCB”) in respect of the potential investment by SCB in Silvrr Technology Co., Ltd. doing business as Akulaku (“Target”) through the acquisition of shares in the Target’s Series E equity fundraising round.
 

Acted for Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) (“KWAP”) for potential investment in Aerodyne Ventures Sdn. Bhd., in Series B + fundraising round for the additional funds of up to USD10,000,000. Aerodyne Group, as global top ranked drone company.
 

Acted for Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) (“KWAP”) in the investment in Malaysian startup company, Bateriku (M) Sdn. Bhd as part of KWAP’s Dana Perintis plan.
 

Acted for Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, on its investment into the Real Tech Fund Investment Partnership Global 1 Fund.
 

Advised DP World, a global port concession operator, on its proposed joint venture with Sabah Ports Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Suria Capital Holdings Bhd, for the management and operation of Sapangar Bay Container Port, as well as investment in logistics and supply chain infrastructure in Sabah.