Islamic Finance

Leading Islamic finance practitioner, Neil D Miller joined Linklaters in April 2013 as Global Head of Islamic Finance. Neil works closely with the rest of the firm’s Islamic Finance team to provide a truly global network of expertise and knowledge. This is done through our established Islamic Finance presence in UAE and Singapore, and drawing on the broad experience of a teams across our global network who have advised on a wide range of ground breaking transactions throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

We have close relationships with the Sharia scholars most commonly advising on Islamic finance transactions and maintain close relationships with local law firms and with Islamic financial institutions around the world. This ensures that we are best placed to meet the varied needs of our clients for Islamic finance work.

First-of-a-kind transactions

Lawyers in our Islamic Finance group have worked on the cutting edge of the Islamic finance field, and have worked on many award-winning and first-of-a-kind transactions. These have included advising on the first ever:

• Pari passu ranking secured sukuk and bank facility.
• Renminbi-denominated sukuk.
• Greenfield project sukuk.
• Restructuring/liability management of sukuk.
• High yield sukuk.
• Lower tier two sukuk.
• Sukuk under DIFC law.
• Mandatory convertible sukuk.
• Exchangeable sukuk in Asia.
• Sale of the Islamic banking division of a Qatari bank.
• Tier 1 perpetual sukuk.
• Aviation fund.
• Pan-European real estate fund.
• Middle East Islamic PPP tranche.