Islamic Banking

Speaker

Azlin Ahmad advises on banking and finance matters, with a focus on Islamic financing.

With a background in conventional banking and finance, Azlin specialises in the field of Shariah compliant banking and financing. She has extensive experience on both conventional and Islamic financing transactions, handling a variety of matters for retail and corporate clients, representing both the borrowers and financial institutions.

Originally from Kuala Lumpur, Azlin practiced in Kuala Lumpur for a number of years before relocating to the United Arab Emirates, where she spent over a decade working primarily on Islamic financing matters.

She has extensive experience on both conventional and Islamic financing matters, ranging from retail to corporate financing. She handles bilateral and syndicated financing, including project financing and private debt securities as well as Islamic trust certificates (sukuk). Azlin is also highly experienced in structuring and drafting corporate and retail Islamic products for banks and financial institutions, and the documentation for such products have been widely adopted in the United Arab Emirates, and prior to that, Malaysia and Singapore. She has also assisted clients in their corporate debt restructuring exercises as well as acting as local counsel for numerous cross border transactions which require advice from a United Arab Emirates perspective. She was seconded to one of the local banks in the United Arab Emirates to assist in the setting up of their new legal department, which has given her a greater insight on the commercial and operational requirements of the clients.

Azlin is qualified as a barrister in England & Wales and has been called to the Malaysian Bar.