Banking & Finance

Our Banking & Finance team of lawyers has a thorough knowledge and long experience on all types of financial structures and products available in the banking and capital markets, both locally and internationally including banking transactions tax Dubai. The team works in coordination with the Corporate and Commercial team, in order to provide our corporate clients with a full-picture analysis and assistance in connection with any project, investment or simply working capital needs and is able to advise on the most suitable ways to achieve their business and financial targets without compromising their activities and assets. Likewise, we can combine our expertise with a deep knowledge of the corporate business when it comes to assisting financial institutions or investment companies on financing and investment solutions tailored to the borrowers and issuers’ specific industries.

We deal with all aspects of financial and banking activities, including structured and derivative financial instruments, securities transactions, debt financing (including acquisition transactions involving public and private financing), asset financing, project financing, financing of real estate projects, capital markets, structured financing to optimize taxation, venture financing, trade lending, financial recovery, restructuring and Dew bankruptcy.

Our team offers a wide range of services that combines international and UAE elements in the field of transaction support and legal advice, providing comprehensive legal support to UAE, Middle East and international banks, borrowers, and enterprises conducting transactions both in UAE and internationally. Our task is to develop customized solutions that are the most suitable for resolving the complex problems that our customers face.

Responding promptly to changes in the current economic climate and the resulting market situation, we, in particular, offer the following solutions:

  • Asset finance (including ship finance)
  • Corporate lending
  • Debt and equity securities issuance and placement and restructuring
  • Derivatives and structured finance
  • Banking and Financial Regulation and Compliance
  • Project and infrastructure finance
  • Real estate finance

Our experience includes:

  • Successful structuring of Investment Scheme for collective Real Estate Investments for UAE based investment house.
  • Advising Financial Service Providers with regards their establishment in the DIFC/DFSA regulatory environment.
  • Successfully advised major Danish telecom banking services provider in Joint Venture with UAE national financial services provider in SMS remittance solutions provision in the UAE.

Our international team of Banking and Financial Practice advises many of the world’s leading financial institutions on the full range of international and local financial instruments. This area of our activity is developing rapidly.