Stephenson Harwood

Banking and Finance, Islamic Finance, Infrastructure and Construction Finance, Real Estate Finance, Aviation Finance, Corporate Finance

Rustum is a partner within our global finance practice, based in Dubai. He is also the head of the Islamic finance practice for the firm.

Having been based in the Middle East region for over 15 years Rustum specialises in advising international and local financial lenders as well as large corporates, governments and quasi-sovereign institutions, undertaking high-end financings in the Middle East and beyond. In particular he has significant experience in Shari’ah-compliant transactions acting for clients in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia and the US.

His broad practice is principally cross-border and active across all areas of finance (conventional and Shari’ah-compliant), debt capital markets and derivatives. He also advises clients on infrastructure and construction finance, real estate finance, aviation finance, funds finance, corporate finance and syndications, and restructurings.