legal guide09.indd - Islamic Finance News
legal guide09.indd - Islamic Finance News
legal guide09.indd - Islamic Finance News
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IN THE CATEGORY OF<br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> Banking & <strong>Finance</strong><br />
Individual Profile<br />
Richard recently returned to the UK after being the managing partner<br />
of the Abu Dhabi office. He has been involved in the Middle East<br />
since 1979 and has spent 20 years living and working in the UAE and<br />
Oman. Richard heads up the co-ordination of the firm’s <strong>Islamic</strong> finance<br />
practice.<br />
He has extensive experience advising banks (including <strong>Islamic</strong> financial<br />
institutions) and borrowers in a wide range of banking and financial<br />
transactions in the UAE, the Middle East, the UK and the US and has also<br />
been involved in various capital market transactions in the Middle East.<br />
Richard has had many years experience in dealing with leading<br />
Shariah scholars and has been actively involved in the structuring and<br />
documentation of many leading Shariah compliant transactions.<br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> Deals worked on:<br />
Richard de Belder<br />
Partner<br />
Mobile: +44 7891 852 727<br />
Email: richard.debelder@<br />
dentonwildesapte.com<br />
One Fleet Street<br />
London EC4M 7WS<br />
UK<br />
Tel : +44 20 7242 1212<br />
Fax: +44 20 7246 7777<br />
Website: www.dentonwildesapte.com<br />
• US$210 million Tamweel Sukuk<br />
• Ijarah based aircraft facility for a leading Middle Eastern airline<br />
• Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company on a multi-million<br />
reverse share Murabahah financing<br />
• US$200 million Amlak <strong>Finance</strong> Sukuk Musharakah<br />
• Amlak <strong>Finance</strong>’s First Real Estate Fund<br />
• Abu Dhabi <strong>Islamic</strong> Bank’s multi-million Dirhams unsecured facility<br />
extended to a Dubai corporate using an Ijarah structure<br />
• Abu Dhabi <strong>Islamic</strong> Bank Nujoom Islands Fund and Al Shorouq<br />
Fund<br />
• Abu Dhabi <strong>Islamic</strong> Bank: A complex Shariah compliant financing<br />
for a major Dubai real estate project which involved both equity<br />
investment and Shariah compliant shareholder loans<br />
• US$1.25 billion Shuweihat Ijarah Financing<br />
Areas of Expertise:<br />
• <strong>Islamic</strong> <strong>Finance</strong><br />
• Sukuk<br />
Other Offices:<br />
Europe<br />
• London<br />
• Istanbul<br />
• Milton Keynes<br />
• Paris<br />
Middle East and Africa<br />
• Abu Dhabi<br />
• Amman (associate office)<br />
• Cairo<br />
• Doha<br />
• Dubai<br />
• Kuwait (associate office)<br />
• Muscat<br />
• Riyadh (associate office)<br />
CIS<br />
• Almaty<br />
• Moscow<br />
• St Petersburg (associate firm)<br />
• Tashkent<br />
• Ashgabat (associate firm)<br />
Southeast Asia<br />
• Singapore (associate firm)<br />
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