Dale Moulden

Dale Moulden
Biography
Dale Moulden is an English law qualified banking and finance lawyer based in Dubai.
He advises clients on a wide range of finance transactions with a specialism Islamic finance transactions and structures. He has extensive experience advising investors, sponsors, banks, corporations and funds on sharia-compliant financing across a broad range of asset classes and sectors.
Dale guides clients on the financing of real estate assets within complex joint ventures and shariah-compliant structures. In addition, he is experienced in advising on raising funds through private placements, financing based upon sustainable lending and issuance criteria and loan book purchases (including distressed assets).
He has been recommended in the Legal 500 and where clients have described him as "excellent in Islamic finance transactions".
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
An international development corporation - on a US$50m murabaha financing facility to an Egyptian financial institution.
A syndicate of UAE and international banks - on a US$625 multiple-tranche Murabaha financing in compliance with the AAOIFI Shariah Standard 59 requirements to a Singapore based international agri-business.
Bank ABC - on a £105m senior financing and intercreditor arrangements in respect of a residential tower development in London
A UAE Bank - on creation of Islamic Finance products for the UK market.
Investors and a Jersey property company* - on £27m acquisition funding, £157m development funding and £10.2m hive-up funding for the purchase and development of a build to rent and senior living development in Hove. The transaction was structured in accordance with shariah principles to allow for shariah compliant investment to be made.
A Jersey property company and joint venture investors* - on an investment facility from a newly established Luxembourg fund. The funding marked transition of the asset from development to investment, with Dale having advised on the development funding for the site.
A London-based housing association* - on the issuance of £200m of sustainable notes in the US private placement market on Model-Form X documentation. The notes were secured against a portfolio of affordable housing assets.
The lender of an aggregate of £3bn of guaranteed secured lending to a portfolio of approximately 50 not-for-profit borrowers* - in connection with the government's Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme. Borrowers included charitable companies limited by guarantee, community benefit societies and charitable trusts. Additionally acting for the scheme operator on raising 3bn of funds through three £500m loans from an international development bank and £1.5bn of bond issuances across two separate series.
* prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
He has been recommended in the Legal 500 and where clients have described him as "excellent in Islamic finance transactions".
Languages
Languages
- English