Islamic Finance

Experts in Islamic finance

Our award-winning team has exceptional Islamic finance and Islamic Capital Markets experience. The team provides advice on a full range of Sharia compliant transactions with highly developed capabilities in Islamic issues, structuring and debt and equity transactions. Our lawyers have advised banks, arrangers, lead managers and investors on some of the most significant Islamic financing transactions in the market across numerous jurisdictions. 

A multi-disciplined team

The practice is fully integrated with our loans and structured finance practices and general corporate practices making it one of the most well-rounded multi-disciplined Islamic finance teams in the legal industry. The team advises in relation to the full range of sharia-compliant products

A global network

Ashurst's dedicated Islamic finance team are qualified under English, German, French, UAE, Indian, Australian and other law. We operate in key Islamic finance markets including the Middle East, Malaysia and Indonesia and our global network provides our clients with an exceptional service, wherever they choose to do business.

Ground-breaking deals

We have a track record of advising on ground-breaking deals including helping to launch one of the first ever shariah-compliant European investment funds and structuring Australia's first structured commodity murabaha Islamic property financing.

We work seamlessly with Islamic scholars and other advisers

We understand that shariah-compliant financings are complex and involve parallel consideration of various religious, legal and taxation issues to produce an outcome that is not only viable, but which is commercially robust. Our approach is to work respectfully with Islamic scholars to uphold the principles of Islamic finance and to collaboratively partner with other advisers in order to tailor transactions that creates optimum efficiency and value.