GLOBAL: The REDmoney Group is proud to present IFN Law Awards 2023, recognizing the global Islamic finance industry’s best legal professionals in 2023 for their exceptional work and outstanding expertise during an exceptionally challenging year.
This year, IFN Law Awards 2023 have named UK multinational law firm Clifford Chance as the Law Firm of the Year, while 10 other law firms grabbed the industry’s biggest legal accolades across 12 categories.
Taking the law firm of the year award for the Banking & Finance, Real Estate, and Arbitration, Insolvency & Restructuring (co-winners with AS&H) categories as well as honorable mentions for the Energy & Natural Resources and Offshore Finance categories, Clifford Chance was present across the GCC markets in capital markets, project finance, Islamic finance and asset finance transactions.
Clifford Chance was also involved with the IFN Turkiye Deal of the Year for 2022: Republic of Turkiye Sukuk issued through Hazine Mustesarligi Varlik Kiralama Anonim Sirketi.
Meanwhile, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson won for the Asset Management & Islamic Funds category; White & Case for Capital Markets; Allen & Overy for Energy & Natural Resources; Norton Rose Fulbright for ESG, Green & SRI; K&L Gates for Fintech; King & Spalding for Offshore Finance; Khoshaim & Associates for Private Equity; Pinsent Masons for Project & Infrastructure Finance; and Al Busaidy, Mansoor Jamal & Co was named as winner for Mergers & Acquisitions.
The independent IFN Awards Board, comprising senior industry practitioners, evaluated each nomination based on a matrix of qualitative criteria, beyond the sheer size of a firm or transaction, including: the spirit of innovation and creativity in deal-structuring, the impact and influence of each transaction, the complexity of the problems being solved and the consistency in the quality of work produced by each firm.
The IFN Awards Board, in selecting the winners, found that the nominees for this year’s IFN Law Awards to be deep, exceptional in their quality and very hard to separate. The detailed justification for each win is elaborated in this week’s newsletter cover story HERE.
Congratulations to every winner of IFN Law Awards 2023 and we look forward to celebrating your achievements with other industry stalwarts at the upcoming IFN Awards Ceremony.
Table 1: IFN Law Awards 2023 — categories and winners | |
Categories | Winners |
Arbitration, Insolvency & Restructuring | AS&H Clifford Chance |
Asset Management & Islamic Funds | Dentons Rodyk & Davidson |
Banking & Finance | Clifford Chance |
Capital Markets | White & Case |
Energy & Natural Resources | Allen & Overy |
ESG, Green & SRI | Norton Rose Fulbright |
Fintech | K&L Gates |
Mergers & Acquisitions | Al Busaidy, Mansoor Jamal & Co |
Offshore Finance | King & Spalding |
Private Equity | Khoshaim & Associates |
Project & Infrastructure Finance | Pinsent Masons |
Real Estate | Clifford Chance |
Law Firm of The Year | Clifford Chance |