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Amanjit (Ama) K. Fagura, a partner in Dechert’s financial services group, focuses her practice on assisting fund managers and regional investors in the structuring and documentation of Shari’a-compliant investment solutions. She also advises on private placement transactions and the structural and documentation requirements for Islamic investment structures and finance products.
Ms. Fagura represents sponsor and investor clients, including banks and private and institutional investors, in relation to Shari’a-compliant investment transactions. Ranked by Chambers Global for her work in Middle East-wide investment funds, clients describe her as “smart, straight to the point and extremely helpful” and “hard-working and goes above and beyond.”
Key Matters
- The investment arm of a Saudi bank on the establishment of an open-ended master-segregated portfolio company registered as a fund in the Cayman Islands and structured to invest its assets in a Shari’a-compliant manner in investments worldwide.
- A Saudi insurance company in connection with the creation of a new Shari’a-compliant master structure for its investments in various sectors.
- A Saudi based investment manager on the structuring of multiple investment funds in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the related investment strategies including an aviation fund and multi-project development fund.
- A real estate investment company in connection with a conventional and Shari’a-compliant co-investment master structure/documentation for investments in U.S. real estate assets.
- Global asset managers (particularly from the United States and European Union) in connection with the structuring and documentation of private placement vehicles (including Shari’a-compliant feeder, parallel vehicles and funds) aimed at attracting investments from investors in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and broader Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region.
- A Kuwaiti bank on creating a master structure to consolidate its existing outbound investments under one master vehicle and permitting future investments in various asset classes through segregated portfolios structured in the Cayman Islands.
- A Kuwaiti bank on the establishment of a segregated portfolio company registered as a fund in the Cayman Islands, regulated by the Kuwait Capital Markets Authority and structured to invest its assets in a Shari’a-compliant manner in assets in the United States and Europe.
- A Bahraini family office on the structuring and documentation of a Shari’a -compliant structure to permit investments in multiple strategies including conventional credit funds.
- One of the world’s largest secondaries funds with respect to attracting Shari’a-compliant regional investors into their feeder vehicle through certain Islamic funding arrangements, which were registered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- An investment company in connection with a US$130 million issuance of a privately placed Sukuk Al-Ijara to fund a sale-leaseback transaction with respect to a prime real estate asset in Oman. The Sukuk issuance was the first of its kind in Oman.
Includes matters handled at Dechert or prior to joining the firm.
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- University of Cambridge, B.A. (Hons), 2006
- BPP Law School, LPC, 2007
- University of Cambridge, LL.M., 2010
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