Afreen Cole > Shakespeare Martineau LLP > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Shakespeare Martineau LLP Offices
NO 1 COLMORE SQUARE
BIRMINGHAM
B4 6AA
England
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Afreen Cole
Work Department
Real Estate Finance
Position
Legal Director
Career
Afreen works for a range of clients including banks, Islamic finance institutions, short term lenders and other corporate entities.
Afreen has strong experience in both commercial and residential property due diligence, drafting reports on title and drafting security documents.
“I strive to achieve long-term relationships with my clients built on mutual trust. I consider our client’s successes to be our successes and work hard to understand the commercial world that they live in.”
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Islamic finance
Primarily centred from Birmingham and London, the ‘commercial and driven’ team at Shakespeare Martineau LLP is ‘very experienced in dealing with Sharia compliant structures’ for borrowers and lenders seeking or providing the financing to facilitate commercial and residential real estate in the UK. Although it is starting to picking an increased flow of work for foreign entities, including funds, looking to invest in the UK, the team has over the years been particularly successful in developing strong ties with banks (both wholly Shariah compliant entities and conventional lenders with an Islamic window), ensuring that it secures a huge flow of work, particularly in the context of retail mortgages. Recognised as a ‘a leading figure in the Islamic market sector’, team head Mohammed Saqub has been pivotal to the firm’s success in the area with his expertise recognised not only by clients on transactional work but also the UK government, which he has provided guidance to in terms of growing Islamic finance within the country. Legal director Afreen Cole has ‘a solid understanding of Islamic finance principles’, which she deploys to good effect on real estate finance matters and in the negotiation of Commodity Murabaha facility agreements.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Private client > Family: Birmingham
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Social housing
- Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant