Partnerships & Investment
We’re going into business together
Capital, work, profit, loss and exit, agreed on Islamic principles and written so English law enforces it.
Partnerships & InvestmentBusiness
If you never wrote it down, English law wrote it for you.
Most Muslim business partnerships run on trust. English law fills the gaps with rules you never chose. We put your arrangements in writing so they follow Islamic principles and hold up in English law.
Where to start
What’s the decision in front of you?
Commercial Contracts
A contract needs checking
Every clause read against Islamic principles and English contract law before you sign.
Commercial ContractsSharia-Compliant Structuring
We want the business itself to be sound
How the company is owned, financed and run, assessed honestly, with a realistic plan.
Sharia-Compliant StructuringBusiness Succession
We’re deciding who takes over
Who owns it, who runs it and who inherits, planned together so the business survives its founder.
Business SuccessionFamily Business Advisory
The family and the firm share a table
Roles, pay, entry and exit for people who are both relatives and colleagues.
Family Business AdvisoryBusiness Mediation
A dispute needs settling privately
A confidential process with an accredited mediator, before the dispute costs more than the disagreement.
Business MediationWorth knowing
Three things partners find out too late.
- Two people trading together are partners in law, on equal shares, whoever invested more.
- Your partner’s business debts can become your personal debts in an unincorporated partnership.
- One resignation or one funeral can end the firm if nothing says otherwise.
Our scholars check what Islamic commercial principles require. Our advisers make sure English law will enforce what you meant. Where regulated legal services are required, these are provided by our partner SRA-regulated law firm.
Who you’ll work with
Scholarship on one side. Law on the other.
Shaykh Saad Al-Deen Al-Dhafiri
Islamic Board
Specialist in Islamic commercial law and Islamic economics. Graduate of the Shariah College of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, Master’s in Fiqh and Usul, working across the four Sunni schools and the AAOIFI standards.
Syed Ali Zakir
Consultant Solicitor
An SRA-regulated solicitor associated with LawFiq.
Where a matter turns into a dispute, Owais Qarni, LawFiq’s founder and an Accredited Mediator, leads the mediation. Meet the full team.
Common questions
Before the first meeting
Is LawFiq a law firm?
No. LawFiq is a UK advisory company. We explain how Islamic principles and English law apply to your business, and we plan and coordinate what needs to happen. Where regulated legal services are required, these are provided by our partner SRA-regulated law firm.
Do you give investment or financial advice?
No. We advise on principles, structure and documents. We do not recommend financial products, promote investments, introduce investors or arrange investments. Those activities are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and belong with an FCA-authorised firm.
We already have a solicitor and an accountant. Where do you fit?
Alongside them. We add the Islamic-principles side that most advisers cannot assess, and we work with your existing solicitor, accountant or bank rather than replacing them.
Book a consultation
Bring us the business as it is.
One confidential conversation, and you will know where you stand in both systems and what to do about it.
Book a consultation
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