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Partner, Ashurst
Abradat Kamalpour is an international finance partner in the securities and structured finance group in London. He has extensive experience in securitisation, debt capital markets and structured finance transactions. Mr. Kamalpour has been at the forefront of structuring Islamic-compliant capital markets and securitisation transactions, transforming non-compliant structures into instruments acceptable to Islamic investors. He is included in The Lawyer's Hot 100, 2008 of the 100 legal professionals to watch. Mr. Kamalpour is recommended in the field of Islamic finance by the independent directories Chambers UK and Legal 500. Mr. Kamalpour was a key member of a team that won the Euromoney award for Best Global Islamic Finance Legal Advisor 2006-2007.
Significant Representations
Mr. Kamalpour's experience encompasses a broad range of securitisation, capital markets and structured finance transactions, including:
- Acting for Dresdner Kleinwort and HSBC as Co-Arrangers and Dealers in connection with the establishment of a landmark US$1 billion Sukuk Certificate Issuance Programme for Gulf Finance House BSC and an issue under the programme which was listed on the London Stock Exchange and cleared through Euroclear and Clearstream (Winner of the Islamic Finance News 2007 award for Best Country Deal in Bahrain)
- Acting for Capital Management House on the establishment of its $150 million Shari'ah compliant CMH Enterprise Fund I
- Acting for Dresdner Kleinwort as Arranger and JPMorgan, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS Investment Bank and Audi Saudi Arabia as Dealers in connection with the establishment of a US$2 billion EMTN Programme for Global Investment House KSCC, a leading Kuwaiti financial institution
- Acting for the Arranger, Senior Lead Manager and Placement Agent on the landmark Islamic Project Bond (Sukuk) issue to finance the development of the Bahrain Financial Harbour Project. The structure involved the use of Ijara and Istisna underlying contracts
- Acting for Merrill Lynch International on the development of various Shari'ah compliant derivatives and structured products
- Acting for Deutsche Bank AG as Arranger and Lead Manager on a Pan-European securitisation of trade receivables from Portugal, Spain, Germany and France of the INAPA Group
- Acting for a global investment bank as Arranger and Lead Manager on an Islamic compliant securitisation of a pool of Islamic financings from a country in the Middle East
- Acting for HDG Mansur as Fund Manager of the HSBC Amanah Global Properties Income Fund on the Shari'ah compliant financing of a purchase of a portfolio of properties in Germany
Mr. Kamalpour qualified as a solicitor at leading Australian law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He is qualified to practice as a solicitor in Australia (Victoria) and England & Wales.
Education
Bachelor of Laws (Hons) - Monash University
Bachelor of Construction Management (Hons) - RMIT University
Publications and Lectures
Sat on panel with world's leading Shari'ah scholars to discuss Shari'ah structuring issues, World Islamic Banking Conference 2007
'Islamic Securitisation', Global Securitisation and Structured Finance 2007
'The Future of the Sukuk Market', Islamic Financial Services Board conference on 'Islamic Financial Services Industry Towards An Effective Legal Framework for Islamic Finance: Asset Securitisation and Insolvency' (March 2006)
'Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securitisation Developments in the European Market' (2006), Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, co-author of Chapter 21 'An Innovation in Financing-Islamic CMBS'
'Islamic Securitisation', Global Securitisation and Structured Finance 2006
'Islamic Securitisation and Bonds The Challenges', Global Markets Financial News (January 2005)
'Moving Beyond the 'Ijara Sukuk'', Global Treasury News (June 2004) & International Securities Quarterly (March 2004)
'Moving Beyond the Ijara Sukuk', World Islamic Banking Conference (Bahrain, December 2004)
'Accessing the Japanese Retail Markets: Uridashi' - The Samurai's Sister', International Securities Quarterly (June 2003)
'Securitisation as a Mechanism for Promotion of Market Stability', Islamic Real Estate Finance Pre-Conference Workshop (London, July 2003)
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