ESG Trend Continues for 2022 Sukuk Issuance Using Offshore Centres

Advising on the laws of the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg, our global Finance team provides expert legal advice on even the most complex financial transactions under intense time pressure. Clients repeatedly return to our qualified finance lawyers to handle a variety of complex matters relating to acquisition and leveraged financing, asset finance, banking, debt capital markets, derivatives, fund finance, insurance linked products, Islamic finance, repackaging and structured finance. 

Our global Islamic Finance team of lawyers provide legal advice on a wide range of Islamic finance transactions involving BVI, Cayman Islands and Irish vehicles.  These include the issuance of sukuk (trust certificates that project finance structures and investment funds, in each case structured to comply with Shariah. 

In this Country Correspondent Report for Islamic Finance News ("IFN"), Manuela Belmontes discusses the growth in Sukuk transactions in 2022 and how environmental, social and governance ("ESG") and the issuance of green Sukuk continue to be a prominent trend in the market.