Operational Pillars

Crestmount Capital applies internationally accepted best practices in Islamic Investments and Islamic Finance together with a corporate schema comprised of the following essentials :

Independent Assessment
Transparency,
Ethics,
Relationship Management, and
Independent Expert Oversight.

Independent Assessments

Crestmount Capital has engaged several external globally recognised entities to ensure the successful implementation and execution of financial best practices, together with meticulous and stringent corporate structure and development.

King & Spalding Lawyers

King & Spalding helps leading companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,300 lawyers in 24 offices globally, they deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service.

King & Spalding’s breadth of experience includes Islamic finance and property funds management.

King & Wood Mallesons Lawyers

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) is a multinational law firm headquartered in Hong Kong, is the first and only global law firm based in Asia and is one of the largest law firms internaltional.

KWM have also assisted a number of providers to roll out Islamic finance products for retail and corporate customers. They are experts in asset-based lending and Sharia compliant finance and how it can be applied to a range of transactions in Australia and regionally.

Hall & Willcox

Hall & Willcox are a leading Australian law firm, delivering outstanding legal services to corporate, public sector and private clients, both Australian-based and those offshore doing business in Australia.

Hall & Willcox (formerly McMahon Clarke) are Australia’s leading investment funds advisory team. Independently ranked as industry leaders (Chambers Asia Pacific and Legal500 Asia Pacific), their collective deep industry knowledge and vast industry experience mean they partner with clients at every stage of their journey to optimise wealth and create value.

KPMG Accountants & Auditors

KPMG, a global network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services, is one of the ‘Big Four’ auditors worldwide. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs 189,000 people and KPMG member firms can be found in 152 countries.

KPMG are experts in property funds, commercial real estate debt funds, funds management and islamic finance.

Amanie Advisors

Amanie Advisors, founded in 2005, is a leading Sharia advisory firm specialising in Islamic finance solutions covering a wide range of services including Sharia advisory and consultancy, training and research & development for institutional and corporate clientele focusing on Islamic financial services.

Amanie Advisors is led by renowned global Sharia Scholar, Datuk Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar, and teamed by an active and established panel of consultants covering every aspect related to the Islamic banking and finance industries.

Transparency

Crestmount Capital engaged the services of KPMG, globally renowned as one of the “Big Four” auditing and tax firms to ensure accurate and independent documentation and reporting. Together with auditing and tax expertise, legal expertise was engaged across two fronts: overall corporate structure and fund-specific structure. King & Spalding, the appointed legal liaisons for Crestmount Capital, boast years of experience in the Islamic finance field and were engaged to perfect the company’s overall structure and operations.

Crestmount Funds Management engaged Hall & Willcox (formerly McMahon Clarke) to ensure all the fund management Information Memorandums were compliant with Australian laws and regulations. We also engaged King & Wood Mallesons to ensure that all our Commercial Real Estate Debt documentation was both compliant with Australian laws and regulations and based upon sharia compliant principals.

Ethics

As a Sharia compliant firm, Islamic principles of economic and financial fairness, together with full disclosure, are embedded in every level of the company’s operations. Crestmount Capital’s engagement of independent auditing and legal entities, all operational across international markets, is part of the overall objective of ethical operations.

Relationship Management

Crestmount Capital prides itself on maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, and governs stakeholder interactions with transparency, ethics, in-depth and frequent communiques. Crestmount Capital financial instruments are structured with investor confidence and advantageous returns and timelines as priority points in the company’s value proposition.

Independent Expert Oversight

The Sharia Supervisory Board of Crestmount Capital includes the foremost experts in the fields of Islamic economics and Islamic finance from the world’s most advanced and mature sharia markets. The Sharia Supervisory Board, Islamic scholars who are respectively from Malaysia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, are responsible for monitoring and approving Crestmount Fund Management’s investments and Crestmount Money’s finance activities are sharia compliant status and ongoing operations.