Areas of Practice

Our firm routinely deals with contentious and non-contentious matters across a plethora of sub-disciplines within the various areas of law. Learn more about the services that the firm offers in each specialist area.

Taxation

With years of versatile experience assisting clients from a myriad of industries, and a team consisting of a talented roster of professionals, our law practice ensures that every client’s matter is handled with utmost diligence and customised legal strategies.
Civil Litigation
Backed by a team of professionals who hold a thorough familiarity with the system, our firm is able to expertly advise and lead cases as counsel to the clients, ensuring that every client can have ease in matters ranging from filing cases to post-trial scenarios, be it disputes between mega corporate entities or individual persons.

Criminal Litigation

Critically understanding the requirement for a strong advocacy in issues pertaining to criminal law, we place our utmost emphasis on having a skilled team of advocates that are trial specialists. Our professionals offer unflinching support in both defence and prosecution work to facilitate the client with fair and efficient application and trials. We not only offer representation in court, but also before the law enforcement agencies during initiating of case till conclusion of the investigation.

Constitutional & Administrative Law

As practitioners of constitutional and administrative law, we find it our responsibility to systemize, regulate, and reform administrative authorities, including bodies of government, by means of the judicial system. We regularly appear in courts in constitutional cases ranging from enforcement of human rights to judicial review of state actions.

International Tax

Recognizing globalisation in the modern business world, our services extend to cater to individuals and corporations that are subject to taxes in multiple or more than two countries. Keeping at pace with the modern world, our team is well conversant with the modern complex international tax structures and developments related to the field of international tax law.

Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Resolution

We ensure that our clients are aware of all routes of conflict resolution available to them, including, but not limited to, conciliation and mediation, while also simultaneously ensuring that our preparedness in the event of contentious proceedings is second to none.

Banking & Finance Law

Whether our clients be individuals or institutions, our offices facilitate negotiation in terms of borrowing or lending, structuring enforceable contracts, and/or to subject existing contracts to legal scrutiny, complete with the due diligence that is requisite to such a technically-intensive domain.

Capital Markets

Our team of experienced attorneys are able to consult on a wide variety of domains, ranging from debt/equity offerings, and Initial Public Offerings, to the necessary legal framework that must precede any newly developed financial product’s launch.

Regulatory Compliance

For the ease of our corporate clients, we offer lengthy and arduous implementations of corporate restructuring stratagems, while keeping them compliant with regulations as overseen by the SECP, CCP, FBR etc. Leveraging the expertise of our partners in tax laws of Pakistan, we also assist our clients with examining, advising, and structuring  the agreements that govern these transitions.

Customs Laws

We help individuals and entities involved in the import/export of goods stay abreast of any newly implemented tariffs, taxes, and other levies, and ensure that our clients do not run awry of the many customs regulations that govern the flow of goods into and out of the country, and stay on the right side of the law.

Employment & Labour Laws

On the institutional end, we assist companies in building an administrative framework that keeps them on the right side of the country’s labour laws. For individuals, we help them understand their rights as members of the workforce, and in the event that these rights are being systematically violated, seek compensation from their employers.

Corporate & Commercial Laws

We offer our assistance in the incorporation of a company up till negotiations and structuring of contracts at an organisational level. Where applicable, clients also engage us for day to day general advice for convenience in operating as a company.

Estates and Trusts

We help individuals who may want to protect certain assets in preparation for their eventual passing by drawing up wills, incorporate trusts for beneficiaries of their choosing, and appoint executors for their estate, to ensure that their loved ones can avoid having to go through intestacy proceedings.

Intellectual Property Laws

We assist clients in defining their intellectual property, seeking, and registering copyrights, patents, and trademarks, and enforcing these as the need arises to preserve and secure intangible assets for their owners well before beginning operations, keeping the first-in-time, first-in-right policy in consideration.

Legal & Due Diligence

We help put our client’s existing affairs into perspective by subjecting their contracts, business structure, practices and procedures to scrutiny. This allows for them to be better prepared if they pursue or are subjected to legal action, and also to plan and conduct their future endeavous in a manner that is prudent and mitigates any risk.

Media Laws

We offer consultation to our clients in the multimedia space to help them stay cognizant of regulations on all aspects of content creation, dissemination, and propagation. And in the event that they are found in breach of them, we also help expedite the process towards resolution.

Oil & Gas

For those in the petrochemicals field, we offer compliance and advisory services that help keep all aspects of operation OGRA-compliant, including but not limited to exploration, production, transportation and processing of hydrocarbons and their derivative materials, while also assisting with dealings with subcontractors, and managing and structuring corporate-level agreements.

Partnership & Joint Ventures

To facilitate the individuals aiming to formally enter business as a collective, our team not only helps structure a partnership agreement that protects the interests of all involved parties going forward, advises them on other important business-level transitions, but also makes them cognizant of the distinct types of companies such as sole proprietorships, joint proprietorships/partnerships, and corporations, and enables them to decide which option best suits their needs.

Tax Counselling for Expatriates

Using the most tax-effective mechanisms available, as well as making the most of the rebates and other advantages that they are afforded by the law, we advise expats as to how to make the most of their remittances for themselves or their families living locally.

Tax Structuring

We help clients structure their organisation’s internal and external finances, the type of business they list if incorporating a business, and many other factors, to be efficient tax paying entities, with the overall goal of running a fully compliant business with the lowest overheads possible.

Tax Advisory

Our tax advisory services help individuals be financially prudent with how they file and/or manage their taxes by helping clients minimise, understand and/or anticipate and prepare for changes in the taxes that an individual is liable to pay, while also keeping them on the right side of tax regulations.

Tax Litigation

Be it proceedings pertaining to the monitoring of withholding taxes, tax audits, tax references and/or constitutional petitions filed before the High Courts of Pakistan, our experienced team of tax lawyers is focused on identifying and achieving the best possible outcome on a case-to-case basis.

Tax Compliance

Through our team of experienced tax lawyers and certified Income Tax practitioners, we help keep our clients abreast with new developments and restrictions as they become apparent and eventually applicable, helping ensure their business and their transactions are always fully tax compliant, and beyond reproach from a legal perspective.