Azman bin Othman Luk

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

Islamic Finance

Maritime & Aviation

Regulatory & Compliance

Restructuring & Insolvency

Career

Azman holds an LL.M. in corporate and commercial law from the University of London. After being called to the Bar of England & Wales, he undertook a nine-month stint as a pupil in the chambers of R Neville Thomas KC.He joined Rahmat Lim & Partners in 2011.

Personal

Azman is the Managing Partner of Rahmat Lim & Partners, and Head of the Firm’s Regulatory & Compliance Department. He concentrates primarily on banking and finance transactions including syndicated and structured financing, securities regulation and debt capital markets, LBO transactions, strategic investments and restructurings. He also advises on financial and capital markets regulation.

Azman is consistently recognised as a Leading Individual in Banking & Finance by Chambers Global/ Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and is a Highly Regarded lawyer in Banking and Capital Markets in IFLR1000. Azman has in various editions of Chambers been endorsed by peers and clients as being "very proactive and able to think outside the box", and is praised by sources as “one of the leading finance practitioners in Malaysia”, as well as being noted for the fluent structuring of Shariah-compliant transactions.