DANAVEST

Maybank acquired 100% of BinaFikir Sdn Bhd. The deal was completed on Friday, 7 November 2008.

About BinaFikir Sdn Bhd
BinaFikir, founded in January 2002, is Malaysia’s premier independent financial advisory firm specialising in restructuring & reorganisations, M&A, debt/equity financing, Islamic structured finance and strategic financial advisory.

We adopt a holistic and strategic approach to corporate finance, rather than treating it merely as a singular ‘deal driven’ exercise. We ensure that the clients’ long term strategic outlook be the determining factor for any corporate finance activity, and such activity is evaluated in a balanced manner to maximize long term shareholder value.

We have an imbued and ingrained culture of excellence and strive to deliver optimality of solutions for our clients. With our value principles of Integrity, Balance, Excellence and Innovation guiding us, we achieve success for our clients even in the most challenging of situations.

We hold a Capital Markets Service Licence advising on Corporate Finance, issued by the Securities Commission, Malaysia and we are registered Consultants with the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia.

The Management

Mohammed Rashdan Yusof (Managing Director)
Rashdan was one of the two co-founders of BinaFikir Sdn Bhd, and has been its Managing Director since 1st June 2004. His experience portfolio encompasses strategic advisory, corporate and industry restructuring and structured products. He was instrumental in the design of the innovative restructuring solution for MAS in 2002, widely known as the Widespread Asset Unbundling (WAU) restructuring. The WAU restructuring solution won the Deal of the Year 2002 from The Edge and the Asian Corporate Finance Deal of the Year 2002 from AirFinance Journal.

Feisal Zahir (Executive Director)
Feisal joined BinaFikir as an Executive Director in September 2004. Prior to this, he was a Vice President in Citigroup Global Market’s Investment Banking Division based in Hong Kong and Singapore (formerly named Salomon Smith Barney), where he was responsible for coordinating the M&A and capital markets business development efforts for key target clients in the Industrial sector in the Asian region.

Feisal has over 15 years experience in accounting, financial advisory services, corporate finance (including M&A) and corporate strategy.