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Asmihan Ibrahim (Confirmed)
Associate, Partner, Islamic Finance Group |
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Asmihan Ibrahim is an associate in the Islamic Finance Group. A graduate in law from University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She won a Monbugakusho scholarship from the Japanese government to do her LLM in University of Niigata, Japan where she specialised in Corporate and Banking law. Immediately after the master program, she won a Fulbright scholarship to be a visiting scholar attached with the University of Georgetown, Washington DC. She qualified as a solicitor with a magic circle legal practice in Malaysia with experience in banking, project finance and corporate finance. She speaks fluent Japanese, Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia. She has extensive experience of many Islamic finance products and detailed knowledge of traditional Islamic jurisprudence. Malaysian Bar Council "Establishing a DIC in Malaysia" published by the Niigata University Social Economic Department In the Islamic finance group, she has a wide range of experience that includes advising on and developing the following products:
- Forward Ijara
- Islamic liquidity management products using Commodity Murabaha and Wakala structures
- Islamic savings products
- Shariah-compliant Property Funds
- Hybrid conventional/Islamic property financing using Ijara or Musharakah
- Diminishing Musharakah commercial and residential property finance products
- Capital protected Islamic equity funds
- Istisna'a construction finance
- Sukuk for development financing
- Sukuk for investments in real estate
Experience Middle East Real Estate project - advising a Singapore based company to develop and construct a US$630.0 shariah compliant property development project which involve reclamation of land and dual financing of debt and equity using the Shariah principle of Forward Ijara. Capital Protected Fund - drafting the documentation for a UK bank based in Ireland to introduce the Islamic version of the Post Office Protected Equity Bond and ensuring that the product is Shariah compliant and the fall within the definition of "deposit" under the FSA rules. Middle East Public Partnership Scheme - advising a Middle East Bank to structure a social housing project with funding from the Governing using the concept of PPP in the UK using the Shariah principle of Musharakah, Forward Ijara, Istisna and Wakala.Islamic liquidity management - advising a range of international financial institutions, both conventional and Islamic, on the development and refinement of Islamic liquidity management products.UK retail product development - advising a newly established Islamic bank in the UK on the range of Islamic products for corporate and individual customers.Advsing UK conventional banks to set up the Shariah Advisory Boards and drafting the relevant terms and conditions for the board. |
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