Rizwan Kanji > Akin > Dubai, United Arab Emirates > Lawyer Profile

Akin is highly active in bespoke fresh funding transactions, including corporate, acquisition, and real estate finance, offering both conventional and Islamic structures. The firm also boasts a strong restructuring and refinancing practice, adept at handling complex, multi-jurisdictional matters, alongside an expansive fund financing offering. Team lead Rizwan Kanji brings extensive expertise across Islamic finance, general finance, and capital markets, with a proven track record in highly structured transactions. Andrew Heller advises on a broad range of financial products across the credit spectrum on UAE and Saudi Arabia mandates, while Nicola Minervini is well-regarded for his debt capital markets knowledge. Sahar Abas handles both conventional and Islamic finance transactions.

Akin has a sophisticated debt capital markets offering, demonstrating notable activity advising European, Middle Eastern and Asian clients on conventional and Islamic issuances in the Turkish market. Team head Rizwan Kanji is the principal lead on practice mandates and is highly skilled handling sukuk transactions. Nicola Minervini has a varied portfolio of work that includes bilateral and syndicated loan financings, regulatory capital transactions, and ‘green’ bonds. Sahar Abas works closely with a number of global financial institutions.