Post-Forum Workshop B - Wednesday, 25 – Thursday, 26 June 2008
Workshop Timings: Registration will be at 08:00 and the workshop will commence at 08:30 and conclude at 14:30 followed by lunch. There will be networking and refreshment breaks at approximately 10:30 and 12:30
Shari’ah Compliant Private Equity Investments
Led By: Prof. Dr. Monzer Kahf, Consultant in Shari’ah Finance and Economics
Agenda
Day One – Wednesday, 25 June 2008
• Objective of private equity
• Nature of relationship between private equity firms/managers and investors: Shari’ah principles involved
• Basic requisites for structuring Shari’ah-compliant contracts
• Understand the objectives and scope of Shari’ah especially prohibition of interest
• Know the fundamental elements/characteristics of nominated finance contracts in Shari’ah
• Grasp the basic conditions of Islamic finance contracts
• Case studies: developing a new product
• Conditions of Islamic finance contracts
• Characteristics of Islamic finance
Day Two – Thursday, 26 June 2008
• Shari’ah compliant techniques for
- Corporate finance
- Infrastructure finance
- Income generating projects
- Mute projects
• Acquisitions – Shari’ah issues
• Shari’ah equity creation and investment
• Syndication with conventional finance providers
• Exit strategies
Meet Your Expert Workshop Leader
Professor Dr. Monzer Kahf has more than thirty years experience in Islamic finance, banking and economics. He is one of the principal pioneers of structuring Islamic financial products and currently a consultant, trainer and lecturer. He was an invited expert on Islamic finance at the OIC Fiqh Academy, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served as a professor of Islamic economics and banking in the graduate programme of Islamic economics and banking, Yarmouk University, Jordan, a senior research economist, for fifteen years, and head of the research division at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
His experience also includes directing scores of training seminars on Islamic finance and banking, presenting more than 75 papers in conferences and seminars and organising scores of courses, conferences and seminars on the same in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and South and South East Asia. He is the Laureate of IDB Prize in Islamic Economics, 2000.