CELINE RANGITHAN is a Partner in the Banking & Finance practice group. Celine’s legal practice covers all areas of banking and finance transactions focusing on debt capital market financing, syndications, project financing, acquisition financing, and cross-border transactions, both conventional and Islamic. She is frequently involved in cross-border financing transactions. Celine has advised on numerous award-winning transactions and first-in-the-market.

Recognition:

• Chambers Asia Pacific 2025 for Banking & Finance
• Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 as Leading Partner for Banking & Finance (including Islamic Finance).
• Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 as Recommended Lawyer for Capital Markets.
• IFLR1000 2023 Edition as a Notable Practitioner in Capital Markets: Debt

Transaction Experience:

• Yinson Holding Berhad’s Sustainability-Linked Sukuk Wakalah, which is the first Sustainability-Linked Sukuk Wakalah issuance in Malaysia.
• OCBC Al-Amin Bank Berhad’s green financing to RHB Islamic Bank Berhad, which is the first green Islamic foreign currency and bank-to-bank facility.
• Corporate sustainability-linked loan financing to Andante Finance Company Pty Limited, AirTrunk Singapore Pte Ltd, AirTrunk Hong Kong Holding Limited and AirTrunk Singapore Six Pte Ltd, which is the first to use a CUE metric, and is also the first publicly known financing by a data centre company to incorporate a gender pay equity target.
• Yinson Holdings Berhad’s Subordinated Perpetual Islamic Notes Programme, which won the Islamic Finance News Perpetual Deal of the Year 2022.

What Clients’ Say:

• “Celine Rangithan is excellent. Commercial and diligent, she makes navigating the entry into Malaysia for our offshore clients easy.” Legal Asia Pacific 2024
• “Celine is a highly commendable legal counsel with efficient turnaround time of deliverables while maintaining top-notch quality and patience in carving out time to explain things to clients, especially on complex legal matters arising from a transaction.” Chambers Asia Pacific 2024
• “She is very responsive and able to accommodate urgent tasks. The turnaround is also very fast.” Chambers Asia Pacific 2023
• “Amazing personality with depth on the debt capital matters and able to resolve issues effectively and fast. Always available to listen to issues and provide the best solutions which are a balance to both the banks and the borrower.” IFLR 1000 Asia Pacific 2020
• “The “extremely helpful”  Celine Rangithan “tells it like it is” and is “able to think outside the box,” say enthusiastic clients. Particularly adept in cross-border transactions, she presides over conventional and Islamic debt capital market, project finance and syndicated loan transactions” Chambers Asia Pacific 2018