He advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors, investment funds, and real estate clients on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and investment fund structuring and formation.

Islame works closely with clients and deal teams throughout the deal lifecycle, including designing tax-efficient structures and drafting and negotiating complex tax provisions in transaction documents. He has extensive experience in stock and asset acquisitions, taxable and tax-free mergers, recapitalizations, credit facilities, debt workouts, and equity rollovers.

His state and local tax practice includes advising on New York State and New York City real estate transfer tax matters. He counsels owners of high-value New York City residential properties on the City's pied-à-terre surcharge, including negotiating related provisions in transaction documents, evaluating exemption eligibility, and preparing and filing exemption applications.

Islame also represents clients in federal, state, and local tax controversies, including audits and administrative appeals.

Islame earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law and was a Mary Daly Scholar. He received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. His writing on taxation has appeared in academic and professional publications, including Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment, Rutgers University Law Review, Rutgers Business Law Review, Journal of Taxation, Tax Notes Federal, and Bloomberg Tax.

Islame is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where he teaches in the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.