Megat Hizaini Hassan
Megat Hizaini Hassan joined Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill (LHAG) in January 2011 as a partner heading the Islamic finance practice team, and part of the Financial Services practice group. Megat is an alumnus of the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM). Megat also holds Master of Laws degrees from the University of Cambridge, UK, and Harvard Law School, US. Megat was a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholar at Cambridge, International Islamic University scholar at Harvard and a Royal Dutch/Shell scholar at IIUM. Megat was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1991. Megat is well versed in matters relating to conventional and Islamic banking and finance, as well as corporate legal and regulatory developments. Megat has advised local and international clients on issues pertaining to the legal and regulatory framework, for conventional and Islamic financial/investment transactions in Malaysia and abroad. Megat has also been recognised as one of the leading lawyers in his area of practice, through publications such as Legal 500, Chambers Asia, the International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Islamic Finance Lawyers and Expert Guides, as well as Islamic Finance News’ Leading Lawyers Directory. Megat sits as a member of the Shariah Advisory Body of Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad, is a member of the Islamic Finance Committee of the Bar Council Malaysia, and has served as a lecturer at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Laws, IIUM, and had previously taught at IIUM on a guest lecturer / part- time basis. A co-author of The Law and Practice of Islamic Banking and Finance (third edition published in 2015 by Sweet & Maxwell) and An Introduction to Islamic and Conventional Corporate Finance (published in 2012 by Sweet & Maxwell), Megat has also written on the subject for several publications. In addition, Megat has presented at various seminars and conferences on legal and regulatory issues concerning conventional and Islamic finance.
