Rahat has been ranked as a “Rising Star” in Banking and Finance for the second year running.
Legal 500 EMEA 2021
Rahat has been ranked as a “Associates to Watch” in Banking and Finance.
Chambers Global 2021
Clients laud him for being “always solution-ready.”
Chambers Global 2021
Rahat has been ranked as “Rising Star” for banking and finance: corporate finance (including Islamic lending).
Legal 500 EMEA
Rahat joined Afridi & Angell in 2011. His practice includes banking and finance, M&A and general corporate matters. Rahat has advised companies and financial institutions on a range of financing transactions, including conventional and Islamic finance. He has extensive experience in working with bank Shari’a and Fatwa supervisory boards, and independent Shari’a scholars, in structuring a variety of Islamic financing transactions (including, Istisna’a, Ijara, Murabaha, Musharaka and Mudaraba). Rahat has also advised local and overseas companies on a range of corporate and capital markets transactions, including cross-border acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, distribution and IPOs.
Prior to joining Afridi & Angell, Rahat was a corporate associate in the London offices of Hogan Lovells and Dorsey & Whitney, where he advised on a wide range of international mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and secondary offerings in the US and UK (AIM and the Official List).