Sardar Qasim Farooq Ali
Senior Partner
Sardar Qasim Farooq Ali is a Senior Advocate and seasoned litigator with over 25 years of experience across a variety of sectors including banking, corporate, financial services, oil and gas, regulatory and telecom industries.
Mr. Ali regularly advises and represents financial institutions in high value matters. He is presently representing the Bank of Punjab i n the Haris Steel case “the largest banking fraud case brought to court in the history of Pakistan” (per the statement of the then Chief Justice of Pakistan), entailing a claim of over PKR 11 billion.
Barrister Mustafa Mahesar
Partner
Barrister Mustafa Mahesar of Lincoln's Inn, London. PG LLB-from City University London. LLM- Criminal Litigation from Inns of Court School of Law, London. LLM- International Commercial Laws (with specialization in Competition Law) from City Law School, City University, London Barrister Mahesar is a Solicitor, Supreme Court of England and Wales, a former Principal S M Law College Karachi and former Additional Advocate General Sindh. He regularly practices before courts in Karachi and Sindh High Court, Karachi.
Saqib Awan
Partner
The Firm’s Islamabad based partner, Mr. Saqib Awan possesses over 25 years of experience in the petroleum exploration and production industry. Mr. Awan has excelled in negotiating petroleum rights agreements, managing legal and commercial matters, and representing reputable companies like OMV Group, Polish Oil and Gas, DWM Petroleum AG and Descon Group. His educational background includes an LL.M degree and an LL.B degree from the University of Wales, UK.
Mr. Awan has worked for OMV Group in Pakistan (2001-2011) as Legal Manager and as Head of Contracts with DWM Petroleum AG in Tajikistan (2012-2015).
Tariq Aziz
Partner
A seasoned lawyer with experience in litigation of over thirty years, Mr. Aziz is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and regularly appears before different courts in Islamabad. His areas of practice range from civil, corporate, criminal law, arbitration matters, intellectual property laws, service matters, banking, industrial/labour, rent, family, contract and constitutional matters.
Omer Aziz Khan
Senior Counsel
Core Competencies
- M&A Execution & Oversight: Buy- and sell-side transactions, carve-outs, asset/share deals, pre-closing restructurings, conditions precedent, and integration planning.
- Regulatory Interface: Merger control assessments, sectoral approvals, beneficial ownership/UBO and ESR compliance, foreign ownership, economic concentration notifications.
- Public Interest & Risk: Competition, sanctions/export-control touchpoints, anti-bribery/AML, KYC frameworks, transaction risk registers, and remediation planning.
- Documentation & Governance: SPAs/APAs, SHAs, JV constitutions, finance/security packages, board and shareholder approvals, disclosure and information-barrier protocols.
- Policy & Rulemaking: Drafting and benchmarking free-zone/company regulations; aligning with comparative regimes in Europe and the Far East.
- Cross-Border Coordination: Multi-jurisdictional structures across GCC (including UAE free zones) and South Asia; liaison with multiple regulators and registries.
