For the client, in fact, the Investment Banking Group – the marketing arm of RHB Investment Bank Berhad – is a one-stop solution centre that offers insightful counsel on corporate strategy covering key areas such as corporate restructuring, initial public offerings, mergers & acquisitions, as well as raising and placing of equity and debt capital.

RHB Investment Bank Berhad is well known for its role in managing, arranging and underwriting several landmark IPOs. They include the Maxis and PLUS public flotation in 2002, as well as the retail offerings of Scomi Group Bhd worth RM17 million and Astro worth RM1.9 billion in 2003.
A prominent listing exercise that RHB Investment Bank Berhad (then RHB Sakura) was also a part of in 2004 was that for Air Asia Bhd, the low fare airline that is spreading its wings throughout the Southeast Asian region.

In January 2007, RHB Investment Bank Berhad sealed two (2) key deals. The first, an issuance of asset-backed securities (“ABS”) by way of a primary collaterised loan obligations (“CLO”) transaction was successfully completed for Prima Uno Berhad. The issue entailed the raising of RM950 million in ABS bonds for a group of 33 companies and setting a new standard in terms of the number of corporate borrowers in a single transaction for any CLO done in Malaysia. RHB Investment Bank Berhad also became the first Malaysian investment bank to clinch a deal with Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (“KfW”) Bankengruppe of Germany when it was appointed Joint Bookrunner and successfully priced the first issue of RM600 million Medium Term Notes (“MTN”) under KfW’s RM2 billion MTN programme in January 2007.

In 2005, RHB Investment Bank Berhad (RHB Sakura) was joint lead arranger and primary subscriber to an Istisna’ Medium Term Notes Facility worth RM4.8 billion for Jimah Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd. The Islamic facility was to finance partially the construction of a 1,400MW coal fired power plant in Kuala Lukut, Jimah, Negeri Sembilan.

That deal alone won RHB Investment Bank Berhad four awards in 2005. They were Asia Pacific Bond Deal of the Year from Project Finance International, Malaysian Deal of the Year from the Asset Magazine’s Triple A Country Award, Best Project Finance Award (Asia-Pacific) 2005 from Euromoney magazine, and Best Corporate Finance Deal of the Year from The Edge.

In August 2003, RHB Investment Bank Berhad received an Award for Excellence from Euromoney for being the Best Equity House in Malaysia. RHB Investment Bank Berhad won the award for its lead role in the IPOs and successful public listings of Maxis and PLUS in the KLSE in 2002.

It also received the Best Equity Deal and Best IPO award from FinanceAsia for its role in the Maxis deal.

Other awards that RHB Investment Bank Berhad has received over the years include:Malaysia Domestic Bond House 1997 and Malaysia Loan House 1997 in the International Financing Review Asian Annual Awards 1997.Best Domestic Investment Bank 1997 by FinanceAsia.Malaysia Investment Bank of the Year 1997 by Asiamoney.