Mr Dar joined Afridi & Angell in 2011. His practice includes banking and finance, M&A and general corporate matters. Mr Dar has advised companies and financial institutions on a range of financing transactions, including conventional and Islamic finance. He has extensive experience of working with bank Shari’a and Fatwa supervisory boards, and independent Shari’a scholars, in structuring a variety of Islamic financing transactions (including, Istisna’a, Ijara, Murabaha, Musharaka and Mudaraba). Mr Dar has also advised local and overseas companies on a range of corporate and capital markets transactions, including cross-border acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, distribution and IPOs.

Prior to joining Afridi & Angell, Mr Dar was a corporate associate in the London offices of Hogan Lovells and Dorsey & Whitney, where he advised on a wide range of international mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and secondary offerings in the US and UK (AIM and the Official List).

Bar Admissions
Law Society of England and Wales

Education
M.A. in Legal Practice (Banking and Capital Markets), 2003
LL.B University of Leicester, 2001

• Amendments to Management Liability Under the Bankruptcy Law

  By Rahat Dar |December 2021

• Implementing Regulation to the New Movable Security Registration Law

  By Rahat Dar |May 2021

• New Law on Registering Security over Movable Assets

  By Rahat Dar |September 2020