Banking & Financial Services (Conventional and Islamic)
Afridi & Angell has one of the leading banking and financial services practices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The firm provides advice to UAE and international banks as well as Islamic and Western investment banks and financial institutions. The complex financing transactions which the firm advises on often involve multiple facilities, currencies and transactions.
Our in-depth knowledge of Islamic Law and Islamic jurisprudence stems from our hands-on experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating landmark deals in the region.
We differentiate ourselves from other UAE firms by working closely with our clients and offering technical excellence. We go further by actively managing your project, identifying commercial risks and closing them off cleanly with workable solutions.
What do we do?
- Credit facilities
- Work-outs and restructuring of troubled credit
- Consumer products including credit card, personal loan and auto loan
- Consumer treasury products
- Regulatory matters
- Development of Islamic banking products and transactions
- Our experts are sought for their delivery of coherent and commercially sound advice on Islamic Finance to clients globally. The firm has broad experience working on devising innovative structures in ijara, murabaha, mudaraba, takaful, musharaka, ististna'a, wakala and sukuk transactional structures.