Tahir has unrivalled experience in the offshore structuring of Islamic finance products and was involved in the first sukuk issue by a Cayman company to be listed on NASDAQ Dubai as well as inaugural sukuk issues to be listed on other worldwide exchanges. His expertise covers swaps/derivatives, general corporate and investment and private equity funds, including funds which comply with Islamic principles. He has advised on the region's first multi-billion dollar private equity funds, the first REIT, the first distressed property fund as well as on the first listing of a Cayman company's shares on NASDAQ Dubai.

Tahir joined Maples and Calder in Cayman in 2000. He is Managing Partner of the Dubai office, where he has been a partner since 2005. He previously worked for Clifford Chance in London, New York and Dubai. Tahir wrote the Cayman Islands chapter of "Inside the Minds: Banking and Finance Client Strategies in the Middle East and Africa", published by Aspatore Books in 2009. Tahir also wrote the chapter on Offshore Structuring, published in the 2009 Euromoney Encyclopedia of Islamic Finance. Tahir is named as one of the 20 most prominent lawyers in the Middle East by The Brief magazine and is also ranked as one of the best lawyers in the UAE by Best Lawyer magazine and one of the leading private funds lawyers in the Middle East by Who's Who Legal: UAE. Additionally, Tahir has received awards from International Financial Law Review and Islamic Finance News for his work. Tahir is recommended by the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2009, Legal 500, the 2009 edition of Chambers Global and is named as a leading lawyer in 2009 by Islamic Finance News.

University of Hull, UK, LLB.
College of Law, Guildford, Diploma in Legal Practice.

Tahir is fluent in Urdu.

Member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP) in Dubai.

1996 - Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (does not practise as an English solicitor).
2000 - Admitted as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands.