Trowers & Hamlins LLP

Acting alone, as well as frequently forming part of multi-office teams with colleagues on the ground in key offices across the Middle East and South East Asia, Trowers & Hamlins LLP's London team provides 'high-quality advice' for stakeholders utilising a wide range of Shariah-compliant structures on both inbound and outbound investments. On the domestic front, Katharine Lewis regularly handles real estate work for inward investors, ensuring that their investment vehicles are Shariah compliant, as well as advising banks on Murabaha loans. Lewis is also currently involved, alongside lawyers from the firm's Oman, Bahrain and Malaysia offices, on the advice to Ahli United Bank on all aspects of its conversion from a conventional bank to an Islamic bank. Helen Fysh co-heads the 'highly professional and committed' London-based Islamic finance team alongside Lewis. Senior associate Jonathan Grosvenor is also recommended, particularly as it relates to Sukuk issuances and Islamic derivatives and repo work.