| 1 | A guide to Practical Law Finance's Islamic finance resources A guide to PLC Finance's Islamic finance resources | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | International investment in microfinance: overview An overview of international investment in microfinance, including a discussion of what is microfinance, the types of international investment in microfinance, recent trends in the microfinance industry, rating agencies and methodology, foreign exchange issues, regulatory issues, Islamic finance and legal opinions in microfinance transactions. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Islamic finance: UK law overview This note gives an introduction to the basic principles of Islamic law (or Sharia) that affect finance transactions. It describes the main Sharia-compliant transaction structures and explains how they are used in practice. It considers the current challenges for the Islamic finance market and its likely future development. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Finance law: training materials for new joiners Do you have a trainee or newly qualified lawyer joining your finance team? Are you a trainee or newly qualified lawyer wondering what finance transactions are all about? Have you moved in house and find yourself having to get to grips with finance law? If so, have a look at the following materials to get an overview of the law and practice of finance transactions. Remember to arrange for any new recruits to get access to PLC Finance and ensure they are signed up to receive our weekly and/or monthly e-mails. To do this, please e-mail info@practicallaw.com or contact your account manager on 020 7202 1220. If you do not subscribe to PLC Finance, see Request a free trial or call 020 7202 1220 to register your interest in a free trial. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 5 | Islamic derivatives An introduction to some of the issues surrounding the development of Islamic derivatives and an outline of some of the key structures including Sharia compliant cross-currency swaps, profit rate swaps, foreign exchange options and total return swaps. The author would like to thank Rahul Chatterji of Allen & Overy LLP for his help in preparing this practice note. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 6 | Islamic finance: standard documents An introduction to standard documents for sharia-compliant transactions and links to online resources. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Key dates for corporate tax practitioners: 2012 A practice note listing key forthcoming dates in 2012 for corporate tax practitioners. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Key dates for finance lawyers in 2013 A practice note listing key forthcoming dates for UK finance lawyers. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Sharia and the English courts A practice note looking at how the English courts will interpret requirements, in transaction documents and the parties constitutional documents, to act in accordance with Sharia law. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Sharia-compliant transactions: tax This note provides an introduction to the UK's tax treatment of Islamic (sharia-compliant) finance or, as it is referred to in UK tax legislation, "alternative finance". This note does not deal with VAT. For a discussion of the value added tax treatment of sharia-compliant products, see Practice note, Sharia-compliant transactions: VAT. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Sharia-compliant transactions: VAT This note considers the UK VAT treatment of certain sharia-compliant financing structures. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | Tax legislation tracker: archive A document containing items formerly found in PLC Tax legislation trackers but that are now in force. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Tax legislation tracker: finance A document tracking the development of certain notable pieces of proposed new legislation relating to finance taxation. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Tax legislation tracker: property, energy and environment A document tracking the development of certain notable pieces of proposed new legislation relating to property, energy and environment taxation. | Practice notes | Maintained |