Islamic Law Firm of the Year Luxembourg

Firm Profile

Since 1923, WILDGEN, Partners in Law has been at the heart of law practice in Luxembourg. It is today one of the best known and well-respected law firms in Luxembourg, possessing a strong track record and continuing to offer sound technical expertise. For decades now, we have served our clients as a full-service corporate, financial, tax, and business law firm; we continue to assist them in achieving success with their goals. While fully independent, our firm boasts a long-established network of experts and leading law firms throughout the world. Our attorneys are competent at both a local and a global level, privileging high-level work contacts and relations with foreign actors.

Our lawyers have years of experience in the industry sectors of our clients and facilitate the most complex financial procedures and transactions for them. Wildgen is fully-committed to the success of our clients and stresses the values of the profession in a modern world: ethics and integrity, pro-activity and responsiveness, a multilingual and multicultural staff, and the utmost flexibility. We regularly represent Fortune 500 companies and a wide variety of closely and publicly held corporations, partnerships, emerging businesses and individuals, investment funds, pension funds, private equity houses as well as leading banking and financial institutions and leading insurance and reinsurance service providers.

IF Practice Profile

Wildgen’s Islamic Finance practice has grown rapidly and advises clients who wish to invest in accordance with Sharia principles. Our awarded team, headed by Samia Rabia, possesses the experience in providing advices on a wide range of Sharia compliant products and structures, and is often involved in high sophisticated projects. Our Islamic Finance team has a particular expertise assisting clients in relation to the issuance of all types of listed and non listed Sukuk, and the setting up of Sharia compliant regulated and unregulated funds. Our Islamic finance qualified lawyers have a perfect knowledge of

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Law. She also has sound experience in the areas of tax and real estate allowing her to have a global overview for every transaction. Her expertise is renowned in Luxembourg and beyond. With the support of her award-winning

the market, of the Sharia compliant structures and products which can be set up in Luxembourg and of the recent and future developments foreseen under the Luxembourg law. Our firm helps to conduct any business transaction in a Sharia compliant way and advises on wholly Islamic transactions and on structures. We have excellent relationship with renowned and recognised Islamic Finance practitioners and experts throughout the world. We advise both Islamic and traditional banking and financial institutions, as well as corporate entities and high-net worth individuals. We have a number of valuable clients from Middle-East and Asia who rely on our services and who are aware of the expertise and added-value that our lawyers can bring.

Areas of Expertise

Administrative Law Aviation & Maritime Banking & Finance Capital Markets Corporate Finance Corporate Law

Employment and Pensions Insurance & Reinsurance Investment Funds Islamic Finance Litigation and Arbitration Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity and Venture Capital Restructuring & Insolvency Real Estate Securitisation Tax

Samia Rabia

Samia Rabia heads Investment Funds, Real Estate and Islamic Finance departments and specialises in Corporate

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team - seasoned lawyers coming from different backgrounds -, Samia deals with corporate financing, Sharia-compliant transactions, M&A, funds structuring, real estate investment, venture capital or private equity. She also acts as liquidator for certain companies and sits as a member of several Boards of Directors. In this respect, Samia is member of the ILA (Institut luxembourgeois des administrateurs), a not-for-profit organization aiming at sharing knowledge linked to Corporate Governance. Samia’s clients include multinationals,

venture capitalists, investment funds and financial institutions from Europe, USA and Middle East. They particularly appreciate her “responsiveness”, her “cutting-edge and reliable expertise” as well as “the tailor-made solutions she always provides” to them. Samia’s utmost professionalism is not

only praised by her clients but is also regularly highlighted by independent rankings. She has been recognised recently as one of the top 100 Leading Advisors in 2011 in the field of Investment Funds and Islamic Finance by the Finance Monthly Magazine. And as a recognised lawyer, Samia is

frequently invited as a speaker in international conferences, especially when Islamic Finance is concerned. Besides, she contributed several articles on Luxembourg legal environment, Investment Funds and on Islamic Finance published in national and international specialised magazines.

Contact

Samia Rabia

69, boulevard de la Pétrusse L-2320 Luxembourg

Tel.: +352 40 49 60 1 Fax: +352 40 44 09 Website: www.wildgen.lu Email: lawyers@wildgen.lu

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