Chai Ling’s area of practice is primarily in banking and finance, debt capital markets and Islamic finance.

Her experience includes advising financial institutions and corporations on a wide range of conventional and Islamic banking and finance transactions including securities borrowing and lending, syndicated and bilateral financing, corporate bonds and Sukuk, asset backed securitisation transactions, convertible securities issuances, perpetual securities issuances, project financing transactions, ESG bonds and Sukuk issuances and debt restructurings.

Having acted as transaction counsel in local and cross-border debt capital market issuances involving multi-currency Regulation S issuances and complex structures, Chai Ling has played a major role in advising on pioneering and award-winning Malaysian Islamic capital markets transactions such as ASEAN Green SRI Sukuk and SRI Sukuk. She has also advised on M&A transactions, which include the drafting and negotiation of agreements for the acquisition of oceangoing drilling platform fabrication yards between large public-listed and government-owned entities.