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Mr Sohail Barkatali

+971 4 377 9326 sohail.barkatali@hoganlovells.com View profile

Work Department

Finance

Position

Office Managing Partner

Career

Rahail Ali is the office managing partner of the Dubai office. He is an acknowledged expert on Islamic, project and development finance, reflected in accreditations from leading industry and legal journals. He has universally been awarded top tier rankings in various legal directories. Rahail has worked on many of the most innovative finance transactions closed to date in those sectors in the Middle East and North Africa region and is regularly consulted by leading publications as well as banks, governments, and regulatory authorities. In addition to authoring numerous publications and books, he is also the consulting editor of ‘Islamic Finance – A Practical Guide’ and ‘Sukuk and Islamic Capital Markets.’ Rahail was recently listed in The World Muslim 100 Power List for his contributions and influence on Islamic banking and finance.

Languages

English, Urdu

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales

HM Treasury’s Task Force on standardization of Islamic finance contracts

Education

LLB, University of Birmingham, 1989

LLM, University of Cambridge, 1990