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.
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Practice head
Rizwan Kanji
Other key lawyers
Nicola Minervini; Sahar Abas