Edham Reza Shah is a distinguished expert in banking, corporate advisory, and Islamic Finance & Takaful, with extensive experience advising both local and international financial institutions and investment banks. His expertise spans a wide range of legal areas, including syndication and club deal transactions, capital markets, sukuk issuance, and Shariah-compliant advisory in Islamic economics.

As one of the Managing Partners at Abdul Rahman & Partners since 2017, Edham leads the firm’s Banking, Corporate, and Real Estate practices, overseeing internal controls in administration, finance, and general affairs. He also drives the firm’s Group HR, operations, and digitalisation initiatives.

Apart from that, he has:

• Worked and collaborated with foreign solicitors in New York, Singapore, Australia, Pakistan, Dubai, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Paris, Zambia, Tanzania and many more in respect of effective enforcement of security documents governed under the respective foreign law.
• Presented tailor-made and customised solutions and frameworks in the area of Compliance, Governance, and Integrity (‘CGI”) Assurance to corporate clients ranging from financial institutions, public listed, and government linked companies and statutory owned corporations.
• Presented before the Bank’s Board, Shariah Committee, as well as various department and authorities in respect of product development to spruce the issuance of Islamic Finance products.
• Instrumented in advising the Banks on restructuring and refinancing / rescheduling Islamic facilities and also the application of stamp duty savings provisions to provide a benefit to both Banks and customers.
• Counselled with various shareholders and companies in relation to merger and acquisition, MGOs, sale of shares, service contracts, and corporate documentations.

Edham was recognised as a Leading Lawyer by Islamic Finance News (2009-2012), specialises in Asset & Fund Management, Corporate & Commercial law, and Cross-Border transactions.

He has been a panel member at the Asian International Arbitration Centre since 2013, arbitrating Islamic banking and finance disputes. Edham has also served on several boards, including as an independent non-executive board member of one of Malaysia’s largest Islamic cooperative banks and currently serving two other Government-Linked Companies.

Joining the firm in 2007 as a Partner, Edham became Joint Managing Partner in 2017. He was appointed Commissioner for Oaths by the Federal Court of Malaysia in 2016 and Notary Public in 2021. In 2020, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at American University, lecturing on social finance. Edham has been a Certified Shariah Practitioner since 2022.