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>, <strong>Islamic</strong> Real Estate <strong>Finance</strong>, <strong>Islamic</strong><br />
Securitization & Structured <strong>Finance</strong><br />
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Individual Profile<br />
Christopher is a partner in the banking department of the Dubai<br />
and Riyadh offices. He has extensive experience in transactions<br />
involving the telecommunications, power, petrochemicals and<br />
industrial sectors. He has worked on numerous syndicated loan<br />
transactions, <strong>Islamic</strong> financing transactions and debt restructurings.<br />
Christopher also has significant securities and banking regulatory<br />
experience, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the GCC.<br />
<strong>Islamic</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> Deals worked on:<br />
Christopher<br />
Aylward<br />
Partner<br />
Email: christopher.aylward@<br />
dentonwildesapte.com<br />
26 th Floor, API World Tower<br />
Sheikh Zayed Road<br />
PO Box 1756<br />
Dubai, UAE<br />
Tel : +971 4 331 0220<br />
Fax: +971 4 331 0201<br />
Website: www.dentonwildesapte.com<br />
• €28.5 million bridge financing for an African cement plant<br />
• US$20 million Murabahah financing with credit and political risk<br />
insurance for an African obligor<br />
• US$2.35 billion <strong>Islamic</strong> financing (and subsequently the US$1.95<br />
billion <strong>Islamic</strong> bridge financing) (Murabahah) for the acquisition<br />
of licenses and roll-out of the second Saudi Arabian mobile phone<br />
network<br />
• US$500 million Ijarah financing of a shopping complex in Mecca,<br />
Saudi Arabia<br />
• US$5 billion acquisition of licenses and roll-out of the third mobile<br />
phone network in Saudi Arabia including Shariah compliant<br />
financing (Murabahah)<br />
• SAR2.975 billion <strong>Islamic</strong> (Murabahah and Ijarah) and conventional<br />
financing of the expansion of the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah,<br />
Saudi Arabia<br />
• SAR1.5 billion financing of the construction of the Jamarat Bridge in<br />
Mecca and the <strong>Islamic</strong> financing of the SAR400 million extension<br />
• US$1 billion reverse Murabahah for a Saudi corporation<br />
Areas of Expertise:<br />
• <strong>Islamic</strong> <strong>Finance</strong><br />
• Syndicated <strong>Finance</strong><br />
• Trade <strong>Finance</strong><br />
• <strong>Islamic</strong> Investment Funds<br />
• Project <strong>Finance</strong><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)
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