Siddiqui, Shahzad

(Legal Counsel, Shahzad Siddiqui Professional Corp., Toronto, Canada) Siddiqui is a Toronto-based lawyer. A graduate of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, he worked at the Bay Street law firm of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP before teaching the law of international business transactions at Southwest University in China. He subsequently spearheaded the entry of a Chinese conglomerate into the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Siddiqui currently advises organizations as diverse as the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, which is one of the largest mosque and school facilities in Canada; the Chinese Muslim Association of Canada; and Islamic wealth management teams at HSBC Securities and Macquarie Capital Advisors. He is the author of Shari‘a-Compliant Private Equity: A Primer for the Executive, forthcoming for Euromoney Books and a co-author with Mufti Talha Ahmad Azami of BMB Islamic on several works including """"Fruits"""" of the Orchard: Endowments for Mosques and Islamic Charitable Organizations in Western and Muslim Lands, also published by Euromoney.