Male, Age 62, Malaysian
Independent & Non-Executive Director
Chairman of Nomination & Remuneration Committee
Member of Risk Management Committee
Member of Integrity & Whistleblowing Committee
AREA OF EXPERTISE
QUALIFICATIONS
PRESENT MEMBERSHIP OF ASSOCIATIONS
DATE APPOINTED TO THE BOARD
PRESENT APPOINTMENTS
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
PRESENT DIRECTORSHIP OF OTHER PUBLIC COMPANIES
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- Legal, Governance, Regulatory and Business
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master of Laws (LLM) in the United States of America & Global Business Law, University of Suffolk, Boston Massachusetts, USA
- Bachelor of Law LLB (Hons), Universiti Malaya
PRESENT MEMBERSHIP OF ASSOCIATIONS
- None
DATE APPOINTED TO THE BOARD
- 01 April 2022
PRESENT APPOINTMENTS
- Senior Partner of Azmi & Associates
- Fellow & Director of Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia
- Member, Appeals Committee, Bursa Malaysia Berhad
- Member, Investment Panel of Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Universiti Utara Malaysia
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Dato’ Azmi is the Senior Partner of Azmi & Associates, a full service corporate and commercial law firm of more than 80 lawyers, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The firm, Azmi & Associates under his leadership is recognised as one of the largest law firms (by size) in Malaysia.
- He is an experienced and is one of the leading corporate lawyers in Malaysia with expertise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, project finance, privatisation, energy, oil and gas and foreign investments.
- Prior to his endeavour in private practice, Dato’ Azmi had spent 6 1/2 years as an in-house counsel of PETRONAS. He was involved in projects of national importance for Malaysia and negotiated and concluded the NGPSA, a major gas development project for Malaysia, in 1990.
- His accomplishments as a corporate lawyer are well noted and have earned him numerous awards, accolades and recognitions from reputed international legal publications. He won the prestigious Legal 500 Hall of Fame for M&A/Corporate for three consecutive years, 2020-2022, Distinquished M&A Practitioner for AsiaLaw 2020, International Law Office 2016 Clients Choice Award for Malaysia in Mergers & Acquisitions, and other international publications.
- Currently, he serves as a Director of Terralex, a Florida-based world-wide network of 155 law firms with 20,000 lawyers within its member firms spanning across 100 jurisdictions world-wide. He is also a Director of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia.
PRESENT DIRECTORSHIP OF OTHER PUBLIC COMPANIES
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- S P Setia Berhad
- Sapura Energy Berhad
- Maybank Islamic Berhad
- Worldwide Holdings Berhad
- Pelaburan Hartanah Berhad
