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Mohamed Ridza is now the Managing Partner of Mohamed Ridza & Co (MRCO) , a boutique law firm internationally recognised by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Asia . MRCO is a member of Laworld, an international body of boutique law firms based in the United Kingdom and Spain . Prior to that, Ridza was a partner at Zaid Ibrahim & Co . Ridza began his career at Rashid & Lee. He then joined Arab Malaysian Corporation Berhad as the Group Legal Adviser. Ridza later joined Technip Asia Pacific based in Kuala Lumpur and Paris, France as the General Legal Counsel.
Ridza has advised on a wide variety of corporate , telecommunication , financing including mergers and acquisitions , listings of public companies, joint venture and consortium agreements involving foreign and multinational companies, venture capitalist transactions, capital markets and real estate projects.
Ridza also advises clients locally and internationally on various aspects of Islamic banking and finance. On projects, Ridza has extensive experience negotiating local and international contracts for employers and contractors in construction law specialising in oil , gas and petrochemical related contracts.. Ridza has also advised clients on light railway transit system , road projects, building contracts , tunnel contracts , cement plant and factories. His international experience ranges from Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and USA.
He is also the author of several publications including The Law and Practice of Islamic Banking & Finance and The Life and Law of Fintech published by Sweet & Maxwell . Ridza was named as one of the worlds' leading Islamic Finance lawyers as voted by his peers in the industry , AsiaLaw leading lawyers and recently the top 100 lawyers in Malaysia by Asia Business Journal.
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