Banking & Finance

This section covers transactional work such as syndicated lending, letters of credit facility agreements, acquisition and leveraged finance, in addition to the full range of Shari’a-compliant financing arrangements (e.g. Murabaha or Ijarah arrangements). Specialist areas of finance, such as project or asset finance, may still be relevant here but are likely to be given less credit than in the specialist ranking tables for those areas, e.g. Middle East-Wide Projects & Energy and UAE Transportation (which covers shipping and aviation finance). This is particularly the case where available evidence suggests that departments or individuals focus near-exclusively on a specialist area. Note that banking regulatory work is no longer counted towards this table but should instead be submitted for Regulatory: Financial Services.