Rizwan Kanji

Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Website: https://www.akingump.com/en/

Biography

Rizwan Kanji’s practice focuses on debt capital markets, finance and securitizations using both conventional and Islamic finance structures.

He advises investment banks, financial institutions, multilateral development banks, sovereign states, insurance companies and multinational regional corporations on high-profile transactions across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.

Widely considered one of the leading lawyers within Islamic finance, Rizwan has earned a reputation for advising on “first of its kind” transactions.

Global directories, Chambers and Partners have consecutively ranked Mr. Kanji as one of the world's leading Islamic finance and debt capital markets lawyers. Clients are highly impressed with his breadth of expertise, elaborating: "His problem-solving skills and pragmatic approach to transactions are invaluable” and “He has a lot of attention to detail and is very attentive to his clients.”

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2024

• Islamic finance: The expanding reach and depth of sukuk

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets CEE & CIS & Türkiye 2023

• Diving into the decision-making processes of the region’s top tier corporates in their bid to gain access to funding at palatable pricing

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2022

• Balancing economic growth with fiscal responsibility: African sovereign debt outlook 2021/2022

Capital Markets Saudi Arabia 2022

• To list or not to list: What is driving Saudi Arabia’s IPO boom?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Turkey 2021

• How to access new pools of liquidity and diversify funding by issuing sukuk

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2022

• Assessing the outlook for the MENA Fixed Income landscape in 2022/23

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2023

• What is the cost of capital in the ‘new’ market environment? How to issue in volatile markets

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2021

• So much demand and not enough supply: Are sukuk market technicals stacking up?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

• Sukuk vs. EM High Yield: Can sukuk provide access to the markets for BB and B issuers?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East 2020

• US High Yield or RegS market: How private sector BB and B rated companies should approach the international capital markets

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Turkey 2019

• Evaluating steps that need to be taken to encourage the nascent Islamic finance market in Turkey