Advisory

As the world of commerce and finance becomes ever more complex, we strive to deliver solutions that carry maximum benefits and clarity to our clients. At Advisory, we have a full suite of financial products and services to cater to our clients’ needs. Our regional market acumen allows us to tailor to our clients’ requirements and provide comprehensive advice to assist them in meeting their objectives through mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, REITs, and fund raising activities.

Mergers and Acquisitions

At Maybank IB, we apply our diverse expertise and industry experience to appreciate the finer details and nuances of merging companies with different strengths and cultures. We diligently undertake in-depth analyses and simulations to facilitate mergers, resulting in successfully merged corporate entities.

• Local and Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions (Sell-side and Buy-side Advisories)
• Divestitures
• Leverage Buy-outs
• Joint Ventures
• Strategic Alliances
• Spin-offs
• Demergers
• Valuations
• Due Diligence and Financial Modelling
• Pre and Post-Transaction Investor Relations

Restructuring and Reorganisation

We understand that companies may require restructuring and reorganisation during both good times and bad times for various purposes. Our determination to assist our clients has made us successful in resolving highly challenging and complex reorganisations, which involve wholesale changes in business models, and not just a restructure of debt covenants, or terms and conditions to loans.

• Stakeholder Analysis
• Detailed Financial Analysis and Modelling
• Negotiations and Tactics
• Recapitalisations
• Restructurings
• Reschedulings

Corporate Finance

Our Corporate Finance team has advised a number of the largest corporate organisations in the region in expansion via a public listing exercise. We continue to support many of these companies, post-listing, on their funding requirements via fund raising activities in the equity market. Our in-depth knowledge of the rules and regulations, and relationship with the authorities, have given us insight in providing the optimum solutions to our clients.

• Equity and Equity-Linked Transactions
• Initial Public Offerings, Real Estate Investment Trusts, and Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Privatisations

Strategic Advisory

Unique to Maybank IB, the Strategic Advisory team, which also operates as BinaFikir Sdn Bhd, touches on strategic issues for the government and corporates. This wholly-owned subsidiary of Maybank IB, also a renowned consulting firm, provides:

• Financial Advisory services; specialising in the Energy, Infrastructure and Utility (EIU) sectors
  

  	-	Infrastructure, privatisation (i.e. Public-Private Partnership, “PPP”) and project finance advisory
  	-	Other financial advisory services related to EIU e.g. bid advisory for infrastructure projects

• Policy and Strategy Advisory services to the private sector
  

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  Formulation or validation of corporate strategy and business plans; business turnaround and transformation; debt workouts

• Policy and Strategy Advisory services to the public sector
  

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  Assistance in policy planning, optimisation and formulation; rendering advisory and assistance to Government-Linked Corporations and Governmental agencies in (re)positionings and restructurings