legal guide09.indd - Islamic Finance News
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IN THE CATEGORY OF<br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> Banking & <strong>Finance</strong><br />
Edham Reza Shah<br />
Abdul Rahman<br />
Partner<br />
Email : edham@abdulrahman.com.my<br />
Abdul Rahman & Partners<br />
Level 27, Menara Haw Par<br />
Jalan Sultan Ismail<br />
50250 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br />
Tel : +60 3 2078 1888<br />
Fax: +60 3 2078 1999<br />
Individual Profile<br />
Edham is a corporate banking and finance lawyer with Abdul Rahman<br />
& Partners in Kuala Lumpur, a firm founded by his father in 1984.<br />
His areas of practice include <strong>Islamic</strong> banking and finance as well as<br />
corporate and commercial.<br />
He has vast experience in advising onshore and offshore banking<br />
clients, setting up private equity/trust funds, preparing standard <strong>Islamic</strong><br />
banking security documents for local and foreign incorporated banks<br />
and clients, and providing advisory work on Sukuk issuances, among<br />
others. He has also advised his clients on structuring <strong>Islamic</strong> facilities<br />
for project financing and syndicated-related and club deal works.<br />
He has also worked with various corporations and institutions on<br />
essential debt and equity documentation such as mandatory general<br />
offer (MGO) acquisition financing and other related commercial<br />
practices.<br />
Edham holds a Master’s Degree of Law in Banking from the International<br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> University Malaysia. He graduated with an LLB (Hons) from the<br />
University of Sheffield, UK, and attended BPP Law School in London to<br />
complete his Bar Vocational Course. He was called to the English Bar as<br />
an utter barrister of Gray’s Inn in July 2003 and subsequently returned<br />
to Malaysia to commence <strong>legal</strong> practice.<br />
Being a young, enthusiastic and dynamic lawyer, Edham hopes to<br />
lead his firm to the forefront of Malaysia’s efforts to be a center of<br />
excellence for <strong>Islamic</strong> banking and finance.<br />
Areas of Expertise:<br />
• Asset <strong>Finance</strong> & Securitization<br />
• Capital Market<br />
• Corporate Recovery<br />
• <strong>Islamic</strong> Banking & <strong>Finance</strong><br />
• Project <strong>Finance</strong><br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> Deals<br />
worked on:<br />
• Advised a Qatari-owned<br />
bank in Malaysia on its first<br />
Tawarruq ship financing<br />
facility for newly built vessels<br />
• Darul Takaful — First<br />
Murabahah sale-based<br />
financing for a prime<br />
property acquisition in Kuala<br />
Lumpur<br />
• Advised and structured<br />
the <strong>legal</strong> documentation<br />
for a government-owned<br />
development bank on its<br />
first overseas <strong>Islamic</strong> project<br />
based on revolving Istisna<br />
• Advised one of the promoters<br />
and fund managers of the<br />
Safeena Fund, a Labuanbased<br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> closed-end<br />
debt-equity fund<br />
• Advised a government-linked<br />
company, in building its office<br />
in KL Sentral, on its Sukuk<br />
Ijarah issue<br />
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