The Best Banking and Finance Lawyers in Dubai
Akram Sheikh Law Associates Advocates & Legal Consultants team of banking and financial services experts specializes in sophisticated banking transactions. Our team’s areas of expertise encompass Banking Laws, Islamic and Commercial Banking Contracts and Transactions, structuring banking facilities documentation and agreements and real estate mortgages and other banking securities and guarantees, and the enforcement of such securities and guarantees, letters of credit, debt recovery from defaulting bank customers and representing banks in commercial and criminal litigation initiated by or against the banks,.
We regularly provided legal advice to several UAE banks on all banking transactions, and drafted and reviewed all banking forms and contracts, including credit facilities documentation, loan agreements, syndicated loans, securities and mortgages and pledges, and unified terms and conditions for account opening.
Banking and Finance Lawyers in Dubai possess an intimate understanding of the local legal and economic markets as well as its governing laws and customs in the banking industry, and have a long history of advising in landmark UAE and cross-border complex, high-profile banking and financial transactions.
Our Expert Legal Advisors have worked on:
- Drafting and Reviewing Corporate Credit Documentation and Unified Terms and Conditions for account opening and reviewing them on annual basis, and formation of Real Estate Financing SPVs, for leading banks in the UAE
- Redrafting the Memorandum and Articles of Association after listing on financial markets for leading banks in the UAE
- the Structuring the Issue of AED /800.000.000/ Bonds Convertible into shares for one of the leading Banks in the UAE
- Representing a Major Real Estate Development Group in a 300 million Dirham case with one of the Leading Islamic Banks in the UAE
Our Banking and Finance Lawyers in Dubai offer specialized services for major aspects of the banking and finance industry, including loan finance, asset finance, project finance, structured products, debt restructuring, debt capital markets and dealing with corporate insolvency matters.
Islamic Banking and Finance
The Islamic banking and finance sector continues to grow in both domestic market and international markets and our attorneys advise banks on how to expand and structure their business and Islamic banking products in this area, and on major aspects of Islamic finance, including takaful (Islamic insurance), murabaha, Istisnaa, ijara and listing of sukuks.
Asset Based Finance
Our Banking and Finance Lawyers in Dubai handle all types of asset-based finance and lending transactions, including collaterals, subordinated debt, inter-creditor arrangements, and other matters related to asset based lending products.