Banking & Finance (Commercial & Islamic)
Al-Hossam Legal has years of experience representing local and international banks and financial institutions in a wide range of conventional and Islamic banking and finance-related matters.
The firm focuses particularly on the following services:
- Structuring, documentation, and negotiation of syndicated, bilateral, senior, secured and subordinated finance and new banking products.
- Project finance.
- Acquisition and leveraged finance.
- Asset-based lending and finance leasing.
- Aviation finance.
- Financial disputes.
- Financial products and payments.
- Financial regulation.
- Infrastructure and project finance.
- Derivatives, hedging, ISDA and related treasury documentation.
- Shariah compliant hedging products.
- Real estate finance.
- Restructuring and insolvency.
- Trade finance and factoring.
- Enforcement and asset recovery.
- Incorporation of banks and branches of foreign banks.
- Central bank and regulatory compliance.
- Takeover of public banks.
Islamic Finance
We have global expertise in Islamic finance, and we are a leading choice for Islamic banks and Shari`ah compliant corporations. We understand the Shari`ah principles very well and have an excellent track record at using innovative structures that overcome concerns of Shari`ah scholars. Al-Hossam Legal has led many Shari`ah compliant transactions in the
region, as well as in Europe and the US. Hossam Abdullah has been named as one of the World’s Leading Lawyers in “Islamic Finance”, and among the 30 “Best of the Best” lawyers worldwide by IFLR.