With over 17 years’ experience leading on international financing transactions, Asal represents clients on complex conventional and Shari'ah-compliant financings. Asal acts for borrowers and lenders on a wide range of cross-border banking and finance transactions.
Asal’s practice has a strong emphasis on private credit, where she leads on both domestic and cross-border private credit financing transactions for regional and international lenders and investors. Having previously practiced in London and Frankfurt, Asal has extensive experience on inbound and outbound transactions into and from the Middle East and regularly acts on a broad range of real estate finance transactions.
Asal is ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA as a "key lawyer" in Islamic finance.
Asal is a prominent thought leader, speaking at industry events and contributing thought leadership pieces on critical legal issues as well as diversity and inclusion in the profession. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Asal was counsel at King & Spalding and practiced as a lawyer in the London office of Clifford Chance.
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