Date: 30 - 31 March 2010
Venue: Hotel Nikko Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sukuk, the Islamic version of securitization, has already been termed by practitioners as “the financial product” for deeper and broader Islamic capital markets. After only a few years since the first Sukuk deal was launched, the global market for Sukuk is already running into hundreds of billions of dollars. No one in the world of modern finance be it conventional or Islamic can afford to ignore this dramatically growing sector of the market and its increasingly diverse instruments and products.

This workshop aims at highlighting the salient features and challenges in structuring and issuing Sukuk. Not only Islamic financiers will benefit from this short and comprehensive workshop. Conventional financiers would also benefit extensively if they want to expand their client base to Islamic clients as well. This workshop has been exclusively designed to provide comprehensive and practical knowledge on structuring Islamic bonds and sukuk. The workshop will enable the interested parties i.e. corporate bankers, treasury, investment bankers, fund managers, trustee etc., to understand more about Islamic securitization, Islamic bonds issuance as well as Sukuk. Presented by learned and experienced course leaders, this workshop will definitely give benefit and more confidence to the delegates of the workshop and their would-be or existing customers on the distinct features of Islamic securities products and instruments.

By attending this workshop you will learn:

• Shariah Framework for Islamic Securities
• Islamic Securitization: Scope, Process and Procedures
• Types of Sukuk
• Structuring Islamic Debt-based Sukuk - BBA, Murabahah, Istisna’ and Salam
• Structuring Equity-Biased Sukuk: Sukuk al Ijarah
• Sukuk al Ijarah: Observations and Issues
• Structuring Equity-Based Sukuk: Mudarabah Sukuk and Musharakah Sukuk
• Nature & Features of Mudarabah Sukuk & Musharakah Sukuk
• Observations and Issues in Musharakah and Mudarabah Sukuk
• Structuring Islamic Asset-backed Securities
• Securitization of Hybrid / Mixed Assets
• Other Exotic Sukuk
• Legal Documentation for Sukuk
• Issuing and Investing in Islamic Securities: Opportunities and Challenges

Expert Course Trainers

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Engku Rabiah Adawiah Engku Ali
  Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws
  International Islamic University Malaysia
• Dr. Aznan Hassan
  Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws
  International Islamic University Malaysia