Salman is a partner in the Banking and Finance Group and heads the firm’s Islamic finance practice in the Middle East and Africa. Salman also serves as the head of the Islamic securities practice. He has over a decade of experience as a specialised Islamic finance lawyer. He is regularly cited as one of the preeminent practitioners in Islamic finance and he was named an elite leading lawyer in the Islamic finance category of The Legal 500.

His Islamic finance and general finance practice is ranked Tier 1 and Band 1 by Legal500 and Chambers, respectively. His practice is diverse, with emphasis on representing issuers and financial institutions in connection with public and private offerings of securities (domestic and international), as well as representing various corporations and financial institutions on complex domestic and international Islamic finance matters.