Husayn Reza

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Husayn is a counsel in our international capital markets team and has over 12 years of international finance experience. Husayn is one of the most experienced Islamic finance lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region, having been involved on landmark deals for sovereigns, state-owned entities and corporates in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

He represents issuers and underwriters across the Asia-Pacific region on a variety of debt and equity-linked capital markets transactions, including Rule 144A and Regulation S programmes/issuances, convertible and exchangeable bonds, regulatory capital issuances, covered bonds and project bonds. He has advised on complex bond restructurings, bespoke high yield issuances and bridge to bond instruments, along with various liability management exercises.

Husayn has extensive experience on a range of renewable energy project finance transactions, particularly in Pakistan. He has advised various independent power producers on the development and project financing of over 15 power projects, primarily in the renewable energy sector. Husayn was also involved in drafting industry standard templates for wind power concession documents in Pakistan.

Husayn is recognised for his wide coverage of products and jurisdictions, having acted on market leading transactions across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Pakistan, Australia, Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh and Brunei.