Banking and finance
“This amiable, even-keeled team has satisfied clients on both sides of financing transactions, who report that the group ‘believes that the smooth running of a deal is a shared responsibility and acts accordingly.’ In addition to rating very highly on the client service side, the practice is consistently praised for the technical skills of its ever-growing bench.”
Chambers Global 2010
We act for all the major international and regional banks, finance providers and participants in the market as well as corporate and sovereign borrowers.
Banking is a core part of our business and our relationships with many financial institutions are long established.
Our practice covers
- Acquisition and leveraged finance
- Asset finance
- Debt capital markets
- Export Credit Agency (ECA) finance and Trade Finance
- Islamic finance
- Real estate finance
- Restructurings
- Structured products and derivatives
- Telecoms finance
Across our offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Dubai we offer expertise in all areas of transactional banking and finance
For over 30 years our award winning and market leading Islamic finance practice has been involved in documenting and advising on a wide variety of financings, arranged for the benefit of Islamic investors. We are innovators in this sector and possess unrivalled technical and commercial knowledge.
Our regional finance team is fully experienced in a broad range of financing techniques and structures for the real estate market and combines the expertise, not only of our finance lawyers, but also local knowledge of real estate practice, through our real estate team in Dubai and Bahrain.
We have asset finance specialists that work directly from our regional offices in the Middle East
Awards
- IFN Awards, 2010
- Best Law Firm in Islamic finance (also won 2009 and 2008)
- Deal of the Year - Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası US$100 million Sukuk
- Sukuk Deal of the Year - Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası US$100 million Sukuk
- European deal of the Year - International Innovative Technologies £6.1m Sukuk Musharakah
- Turkey Deal of the Year - Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası US$100 million Sukuk