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Dr Aida Othman

+603 2083 2370 aida.othman@zicolaw.com View profile

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Dr Aida Othman is a Partner at Zaid Ibrahim & Co (a member of the ZICO Law) She is also the managing director of ZICO Shariah Advisory Services Sdn Bhd.

Position

Partner

Career

Dr Aida specializes in Islamic banking and finance, Islamic capital market instruments and takaful products and operations. She also advises on Shariah compliance and governance, including on the legal and regulatory framework for Islamic finance.

In particular, she has advised on:

• The structure and documentation for both Islamic corporate and retail financing;
• The legal and regulatory framework for Islamic financial services;
• Structuring and Shariah compliance issues for sukuk issuance, private equity funds and unit trust funds;
• Shariah review and Shariah audit of Islamic financial institutions;
• Takaful products and operations;
• Islamic wealth planning and management.
• Halal assurance systems and halal certification.

Languages

• Arabic
• English
• French
• Malay

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Art s& Sciences, Harvard University, United States of America
• Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Law & Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, United States of America
• Masters of Law from Cambridge University, United Kingdom
• Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Islamic Law (Shariah) (First Class Honours) from International Islamic University, Malaysia.

Aida is an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.

She is also:

• a panel arbitrator for Islamic finance or other Shariah related disputes at the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA);
• a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), United Kingdom;
• a member of the Technical Working Group on Ethics of the Accounting & Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), Bahrain;
• a member of the Shariah Committee, HSBC Amanah Malaysia Berhad;
• a member of the Islamic Finance Committee, Bar Council, Malaysia;
• a member of the Association of Shariah Advisors in Islamic Finance (ASAS), Malaysia.
• a member of the Specialists’ Panel, Labuan International Business & Financial Centre (LIBFC).