Sharia compliance and UAE-court enforceability are not the same conversation, and a structure that satisfies one without the other will eventually fail at both.
Recent Islamic-finance work includes a DIFC mudaraba financing structure, a final mudaraba documentation pack for a foundation-administered wealth structure (coordinated with Ocorian), and a substantial Sharia-compliance advisory engagement covering DIB and EM-ISSC requirements on customer qabd rights and independent gold delivery, DFSA trust administration analysis, foundation verification-only structures, and EM-ISSC communication strategy.
We have also advised on a gold-monetisation structure built around deferred sale-purchase documentation, a substance-over-form assessment under the Finance Lease Law (Federal Law No. 8/2018), a Master Purchase Facilitation Agreement, and the SCA collective-investment-scheme analysis that determined whether the underlying instrument fell inside or outside the regulated perimeter.
“Sharia-compliance and UAE-court enforceability are not the same conversation — a structure that satisfies one without the other will fail at both.”
Our work coordinates with Sharia supervisory boards, internal Sharia functions, and scholar engagement so that structuring questions are resolved without losing the commercial timeline — and so that the resulting documentation is something a UAE court or DIFC court can actually enforce.