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BANKING
The firm conducts legal audits for banks to ensure that
all loans given by the bank are properly secured in terms
of the section advice or offer letters. Loan documentation
for commercial banks, investment banks and non banking financial
institutions such as syndicated finance agreement, documentation
for financial derivatives, documentation for term finance
certificates, documentation for housing finance, documentation
relating to morabaha, musharika and other Islamic finance
products, lease agreements, hire purchase agreement and
consumer finance agreements. The firm is representing financial
institution in the banking and high courts of the country.
Our team’s endeavor is to recover debt for our clients
in shortest possible time.
CORPORATE AND BUSINESS LAW
The firm advises clients regarding national and international
business transactions. Our lawyers counsel clients on issues
including choice of corporate vehicle, structuring of constitutive
documents, government consents, income and sales tax structure,
repatriation regime and customs. We regularly advise foreign
clients on establishing branches or local companies and
act as their agents to represent them before various governmental
departments. We advise and assist clients regarding issues
that may arise during the running and operating a commercial
enterprise, be it a small television cable operator or an
international airline.
CRIMINAL LAW
The firm has a team of lawyers who practice criminal law
relation to white collar crimes, our team is adept and efficient
in handling criminal matters at the stage of registration
of FIR, investigation, bail and trial. We carry our clients
through all these above stages all the way till appeal or
revision in the High Courts and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The firm is presently handling criminal matters for financial
institutions and large industrial units.
CYBER
LAW & E-COMMERCE
Technology affects business practices and, for this reason,
it can affect business law. Cyberspace, the internet, and
the world wide web represent the latest in technology that
is affecting commercial practices all over the world. The
firm advises clients regarding e-contracts, cyberspace agreements,
electronic transactions, jurisdictional issues, contents
of web sites, trademark, data protection and copyright and
other intellectual property issues in cyberspace. Members
of the firm have served on government panels & committees
constituted to make the country’s laws e-commerce
friendly in the digital information age.
ENERGY (Oil, Gas & Electricity)
The firm offers legal advice to companies working in the
oil, gas and electricity sector. The firm offers services
to local ad well as foreign clients on a whole range of
issues form privatization to legal aspects in corporate
finance deals. The firm also has an impressive client list
engaged in the business of marketing of petroleum and other
products. The firm advises these clients on a variety of
issues including obtaining licenses for marketing, storage
and sale of petroleum products, contracts for setting up
petrol stations and concessions for prospecting of oil and
gas.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
The spectrum of our environmental law practice is continuously
expanding. We provide legal counsel regarding environmental
standards, compliance with existing regulatory regime and
representations before the environmental Tribunals.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CROSS BORDER OPERATIONS
The firm provides advice to local as well as foreign clients
with respect to all types of international business and
cross-border operations, including international sales,
internet contracts, agency, licensing, distribution and
franchising agreements of products and services, evaluation
of local trade and commercial regimes for specific transactions
between local and foreign clients and advice on tax related
issues in international transaction.
LABOUR LAW
The firm provides legal advice to foreign as well as local
clients on all labor related issues including employee benefits,
compensation, employment contracts, termination, settlements,
plant closings and lay offs. We also represent our clients
in disputes before the labour and other courts.
LITIGATION
The firm maintains an active litigation practice and takes
pride in being one of the few firms which has the resources
and personnel to conduct litigation across the length &
breadth of the country. We work with clients who, when faced
with potential or actual litigation, rely on us to forge litigation
strategies that are cost effective and speedy. Our services
in this area have proven invaluable for many companies, banks,
authorities and individuals whom we have served diligently
and with integrity over the years. The services offered by
the firm include quantifying and evaluating the risks, costs
and benefits of commencing or vigorously defending litigation,
exploring alternatives to litigation (where appropriate) representing
clients at all level of judicial hierarchy administrative
tribunals, and in arbitration and subject matters, including:
breach of contracts, recovery matters, construction contracts,
real estate disputes, patent, trademark, copyright infringement,
filing constitutional petitions against unlawful administrative
actions, unwarranted taxation and orders of tribunals suffering
from jurisdictional or other legal defects and clearly and
concisely communication with clients regarding the status
of their litigation.
MERGERS,
ACQUISITIONS AND JOINT VENTURE
We advise clients in acquisitions divestitures, mergers
and in joint ventures assisting them in selecting the best
business structure to meet their particular interests taking
into consideration pricing, tax, regulatory and liability
issues. We also assist our clients in reorganizing and restructuring
individual and joint undertakings and in compiling the necessary
documentation. We also provide advice on sophisticated cross-border
transactions, due diligence investigations and assessment
of pending litigation, regulatory approvals, tax structuring
and developing and negotiation purchase agreements. Upon
request our lawyers assist interested clients in identifying
businesses, including commercial banks, mutual funds, leasing
companies that are for sale and then advise them through
the complete sale transaction.
MINING LAWS
The firm has advised and assisted different clients in reviewing
and implementing relevant mining concession and licensing
regimes existing in the country. The firm has advised these
clients on a variety of issues including obtaining licenses
for mining; concession agreements and joint operating and
implementation agreements, etc.
PATENT & DESIGN LAW
Today’s fast-paced; high-tech environment demands
that inventors, creators and business owners pay special
attention to protecting their inventions and creative designs.
Our services in the field of patent law include patent and
design infringement litigation, opinions on patentability
and enforcement of rights. Our lawyers are capable of providing
advice on patent and design matters in diverse areas of
technology including electronics, telecom, mechanical, biotechnology,
pharmaceutical and chemical engineering.
PRIVATIZATION
The firm offers advice to local as well as foreign clients
intending to participate in the privatization of state owned
companies in Pakistan. The firm also counsels clients in
conducting due diligence, getting governmental consents,
arranging repatriations of funds, reviewing bidding documents
ensuring compliance with local law regime affecting them
and representing such clients before the privatization commission.
REAL ESTATE
The firm routinely advises clients regarding sale and purchase
of commercial and residential property and assists in negotiating,
drafting, executing and registration of all documents required
under the law. Our lawyers also verify title documents and
claims to immovable property in order to protect clients
from entering into fraudulent sale agreements. The firm
is also advising clients on constituting and operating housing
societies.
TAX
LAW
Tax implications are an important aspect in structuring
commercial transactions. The firm advises clients on tax
issues relating to commercial transactions like joint ventures,
share purchase agreements, and purchase of businesses as
running concerns. Our lawyers advise clients regarding tax
implications connected with their investments in the local
market.
TELECOMUINCATION
The firm offers advice to many companies in the telecommunication
sector. The firm’s client base in this sector ranges
from companies involved in providing payphone services to
companies having WWL network. The firm has also been involved
in documentation of financial instruments for raising capital
for telecommunication sector through equity and debt based
instrument.
TRADE
MARK & COPYRIGHT
Brands are the lifeline of successful businesses. We advise
our clients in brand selection, brand availability and clearance
searches and provide wide ranging services to secure protection
and maintenance of their rights in trademarks, logos, slogans
and specialize in trademark and copyright licensing and
assignment, infringement and enforcement litigation, domain
name and internet related litigation, anti-counterfeiting
actions before courts and administrative and enforcement
authorities including customs and police. |
