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Datuk Dr Raman was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor in West Malaysia in 1977, the Singapore Bar in 1995 and as a Solicitor for England and Wales in 2002. He had served the Malaysian Judicial and Legal Services for four and a half years as Magistrate, Deputy Public Prosecutor/Federal Counsel and Assistant Director of Legal Aid, Malaysia before he went to private practice. As part of the legal professional training, Datuk Dr Raman completed an Executive Course at the Harvard Business School in 2000 under the “Leading Professional Service Firms” program and was a regular participant at the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ISLP) at the Harvard Law School since 2004.ILSP’s aim is to study the field of Islamic finance from the legal and Shariah points of view by analyzing contemporary scholarship, encouraging collaboration among scholars within and outside the Musim world, and increasing the interaction between theory and practice in Islamic finance. He has 30 years of experience in legal practice, in diverse matters such as in real estate, corporate & commercial laws, restructuring, corporate banking & finance, Islamic finance & sukuk, merger & acquisition and privatisation. Datuk Dr Raman is the co-head of ARSA Lawyers Islamic Finance Law Department and specialises in Islamic Finance, Information Communication Technology Law, Media and Telecommunications, M&A, and Cross-Border transactions. He was the leading adviser for e-Medina: an e-government initiative for the Holy City of Medina Munawara, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Datuk Dr Raman is an active speaker and has presented many papers at law conferences both at national and the international level. Amongst the seminars spoke by Datuk Dr Raman at international level are :
He has written a book entitled “Personal Data Privacy Protection” published by Lexis Nexis/Malayan Law Journal in 2005. He co-authored a write-up on the Malaysian perspective of legal due diligence work entitled “The Importance Of Due Diligence In Malaysia From The Perspective Of Securities Regulations Of Malaysia”, published by Sweet & Maxwell (London) in the book on “Due Diligence Law And Practice ” by Christopher Davis (6th release, September 2001). Amongst his selected publications on Intellectual Property Collateralization in Islamic Financing are:
He is currently a Council Member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (“IPBA”) (www.ipba.org) a leading international law organisation for business lawyers with interest in the Asia-Pacific Region. Datuk Dr Raman, was a director of several public listed companies on Bursa Malaysia and is a director of the Technical University Malaysia Melaka (“Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka - UTEM”), that is a public university. Datuk Dr Raman was a Judge of the Consumers’ Claims Court of Malaysia for 5 years until September 2007. For his outstanding services to the community, Datuk Dr Raman was conferred the award of “Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka” [DMSM] by His Excellency TYT Governor of Malacca in 1996. The award of “Kesatria Mangku Negara” (KMN) was conferred on him in 2000 by His Majesty The Yang DiPertuan Agong.
Datuk Dr Raman Saad is married to Datin Rukamariah and blessed
with 4 children. He now lives in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.
Besides reading during his free time, he plays golf. |
Datuk
Dr Abdul Raman Saad (age 59) holds an honours degree in Law from
the University of Singapore and a Masters degree in Law (with
specialization in Electronic Laws) from the University of
Melbourne, Australia. He also holds a Doctorate degree in
Business Administration from Midwest Missouri University, USA.
In 1976, he spent one year as a post-graduate student at
Stanford University in Palo Alto, California under the Asia
Foundation Internship Program.