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.
Other matters include a gold-monetisation structure built around deferred sale and purchase documentation, a substance-over-form assessment under the Finance Lease Law (Federal Law No. 8 of 2018), a Master Purchase Facilitation Agreement, and the SCA collective investment scheme analysis that settled whether the underlying instrument fell inside the regulated perimeter or outside it.
“Substance over form is not an abstraction here. It is the question a regulator asks first.”
We work alongside Sharia supervisory boards, internal Sharia functions and individual scholars, so that structuring questions get resolved without the commercial timeline slipping. What comes out at the end has to be enforceable in a UAE or DIFC court, and that is what the drafting is built around.