Qasim Aslam

Practice Areas

Acquisition Finance

Banking and Finance

Commercial Banks

Energy

Financial Institutions

Islamic Finance

Project Finance

Real Estate Finance

Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Career

Qasim is a partner in the Banking and Finance practice.

He has international Islamic finance, project finance and structured finance experience, including transactions throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He acts for regional, international and Islamic financiers as well as multi-lateral agencies and corporates.

Qasim is also the Head of Islamic Finance – Middle East. He is recognised in the international Expert Guides "Best of the Best" for Islamic Finance, international Expert Guides "Banking, Finance and Transactional Guide" as one of The World's Leading Islamic Finance Lawyers, and also as a Leading Individual with Tier 1 ranking in the Legal 500 directory.

Professional Memberships

Scotland, admitted 1996

Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2005

Experience

Salik road toll securitisation: Advising Citi, Emirates NBD and others on the ground breaking US$800million multi-source securitisation of the Salik toll road system in Dubai - the world's first Islamic road toll financing - (winner of multiple awards including Middle East Transport Deal of the Year, Project Finance Magazine Award and Structured Finance Deal of the Year for Islamic Finance News).

Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) refinancing: Acting on its US$1.3 billion refinancing utilising a hybrid corporate/project financing structure as well as an integrated Ijara arrangement (Mining and Metals Deal of the Year by Infrastructure Journal).

Petro Rabigh Phase II expansion: Advising Sumitomo Chemical on the US$8 billion expansion of a refining and petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia through conventional and ‎multiple sophisticated Islamic structures - (numerous awards include PFI International's Petrochemical Deal of the Year and EMEA Finance Chemicals Deal of the Year).

Limitless Islamic restructuring: Acting for the financiers' co-ordinating committee in the high profile international US$1.2 billion Islamic refinancing to this UAE developer utilising bespoke Mudaraba and Ijara structures.‎

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Malaysia): Advising on the award-winning Islamic commodity murabaha facility of US$100 million to The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD). Bringing together the Far East and the Middle East, this is the first cross-border transaction by a Japanese bank to an Islamic multilateral international financial institution.

Languages Spoken

English

Education