Workshop

Sunday, 19 April 2009

IQPC’s pre-summit workshop is a unique opportunity to spend valuable time with industry experts. This interactive session is extended to ensure that you will get to the heart of the Islamic finance industry’s most critical issues and uncover practical solutions you can apply in your own company.

09.00 - 16:30 Workshop: Innovative Islamic Capital Market Instruments

Rationale

This fully interactive workshop has been designed specifically for Leaders in Islamic Finance 2009 by Dar Al Sharia, a subsidiary of Dubai Islamic Bank. All workshop content has been harmonised with the topics covered in the main summit agenda, giving you a focused approach to some of the larger issues at hand. This provides the perfect base before attending the main summit and is ideal for those who work in both the conventional and Islamic capital markets arenas.

Two expert workshop leaders will provide you with the knowledge and skills to tackle a variety of issues, providing you with a Sharia perspective and a practitioner’s perspective. You will solve complex problems in groups and receive exclusive case studies throughout the day. Obtain in-depth knowledge of all structures and how to use them, and discover how to manage these structures in order to maximise returns.

Key Benefits

• Realise the importance of innovation and how innovative structures maximise returns
• Learn how to manage risk effectively through:
• Using takaful and sukuk to hedge out exposure
• Tranching
• Analyse methods of subordination in Islamic finance and capital markets
• Gain the necessary knowledge on effective collaterals in Sharia-compliant markets
• Receive a detailed walkthrough of securities, convertability and redemption options
• Examine the controversies in structuring sukuk and discover the Sharia scholar’s perspective

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is aimed at those who work or are involved in the capital markets arena. This is perfect as an introductory course for those involved in conventional capital markets, or as a refresher that tackles some of the more difficult challenges for those involved in Islamic capital markets.

Workshop Leaders

Mian Muhammad Nazir
Senior Vice President
DAR AL SHARIA

Mian Muhammad Nazir is Senior Vice President with the Sharia Structuring and Coordination Department (Dar Al Sharia) of Dubai Islamic Bank. Before joining Dubai Islamic Bank in 2005, he worked as a Legal Advisor for Dallah Al Baraka Group, Saudi Arabia. He also worked with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority as Director, Law and Regulatory Affairs. Mian Nazir is an accomplished and renowned Sharia lawyer in the field of Islamic banking and finance. Apart from having degrees in Sharia and Law from International Islamic University, Pakistan, he also holds a master degree in commercial laws from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has had the honour of working closely with Dr. Hussein Hamid Hassan for the last two years and is involved in the structuring and documentation of various Sharia compliant financial products and transactions.

Mohammed Saifullah Khan
Assistant Vice President
DAR AL SHARIA

Mohammed Saifullah Khan was born in India in 1978. He received a five year integrated B.A.B.L (Bachelor of Laws) in 2000 and M.L (Master of Laws) in Constitutional and International law in 2002 from the University of Madras, India. Saifullah was admitted as an advocate of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu, India in 2000 and spent the initial part of his career in litigation specialising in commercial, corporate and constitutional writs before the High Court of Madras. He moved to Bahrain in 2005 to work as an associate at Hassan Radhi & Associates where he specialised in banking & finance, commercial and corporate law, real estate, and dispute resolution. Saifullah joined the Sharia Coordination Department of Dubai Islamic Bank in May 2007 and was part of the Sharia structuring and documentation team under the guidance of Dr. Hussain Hamid Hassan. Saifullah is currently Assistant Vice President of Dar Al Sharia Legal & Financial Consultancy LLC (a subsidiary of Dubai Islamic Bank).

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