Azmi Mohd Ali has been appointed an independent, non-executive director of Sapura Energy, with effect from October 1, 2020. Azmi is a senior partner of Azmi & Associates, a full-service corporate and commercial law firm based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is one of the leading corporate lawyers in Malaysia with expertise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, project finance, privatisation, energy, oil and gas, and foreign investments. Prior to his endeavour in private practice, Dato’ Azmi had spent more than six years as an in-house counsel of Petronas. He was involved in projects of national importance for Malaysia and negotiated and concluded the NGPSA, a major gas development project, for Malaysia, in 1990. Currently, he serves as a director of Terralex, a Florida-based worldwide network of 155 law firms. He is also a director of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia, UiTM Holdings Sdn Bhd, SP Setia Bhd and Worldwide Holdings Bhd.
