Taylor Wessing has advised Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets on a £100m Islamic finance deal which saw a refinancing by Park Lane Properties, the purchaser of Grosvenor House Apartments.

Taylor Wessing finance partner Rodney Dukes led the team on the deal, in which Lloyds TSB provided funding to Park Lane for the refinancing of its acquisition of Grosvenor House. Park Lane is co-owned by Kuwait-based ADEEM Investment Company and Investment Dar.

Taylor Wessing is on the Lloyds TSB panel and was instructed on the current deal in September last year.

Dukes was assisted by project finance partner Hamid Yunis, corporate tax partner Peter Jackson and real estate partner Raman Sharma.

Trowers & Hamlins advised Park Lane after it was brought in on the deal by ADEEM. Banking partner Neill Gibson led the team, assisted by corporate partner Amir Hashemi and property partners Sangita Unadkat and Peter Ward.

Jersey firm Bedell Cristin also advised Lloyds TSB, while Ogier provided advice on Jersey law to Park Lane.

The deal, which under Islamic law can not involve interest payment, was structured as a purchase of commodities. Profit from each purchase counted as payments equivalent to interest to the lender.

Dukes said: "We did a trade on cocoa; an amount of cocoa was acquired and sold, creating a profit acknowledged as interest. You do this every three to six months as you would pay interest on a loan."