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Islamic finance
Eversheds Sutherland recognises the increasing global importance of Islamic finance and has developed a group that is dedicated to this sector.Through our global offices, our Islamic finance group specialises in providing advice to financiers and their customers in connection with a range of Shari’ah compliant products and transactions. Our practice covers both institutional clients and corporate entities.
We have experience across a breadth of areas of Islamic finance and regularly work with leading sector-based institutions to develop further innovative Shari’ah compliant products.
Our Islamic Finance Group advises on a range of matters including:
- Sukuk issues
- standard form documents covering and transactions documented under Murabaha, Musharaka, Mudarabah and Ijara arrangements
- Islamic tranches in project financing in a number of sectors
- Sharia'h compliant M&A transactions
- asset leasing on a Sharia'h compliant basis
- construction contracts based on Istisnaa principles
- real estate investments.
Our practice covers both institutional clients and corporate entities.
Our experience
Our teams experience includes advising:
- DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, QInvest and QNB Capital on the establishment of Ooredoo’s Shari’ah compliant US$2,000 million Sukuk programme, including the issue of US$1,250 million certificates
- Al Baraka Bank Turkey on its issuance of US$ 200 million Sukuk al Murabaha, which qualified as Tier II capital according to the Turkish Central Bank’s guidelines on capital adequacy (following Basel II)
- Majid Al Futtaim on the update of its Medium Term Note and Sukuk issuance programmes, the listing of the programmes in Ireland and Dubai and the subsequent drawdowns
- Qatar Islamic Bank on QAR546,150,000 commodity murabaha financing