PAKISTAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Nadir Altaf and Muhammad Fahim Khan, RIAA Barker Gillette
RIAA Barker Gillette offers the full range of cor- porate, commercial and dispute resolution legal services from offices in Karachi, Lahore, Islama- bad and Peshawar. With ten partners and more than 40 associates, the firm is among Pakistan’s largest practices. Its clients include multination- al corporations, financial institutions, non-profit organisations, Pakistani conglomerates, private clients, and government agencies. RIAA Barker Gillette is also the primary Pakistan contact for many major international law firms. It has exten-
sive experience of complex cross-border work and of advising across a number of industry and regulatory sectors. The firm is routinely called on to act in projects, M&A, private equity, cor- porate restructuring, tax advisory mandates, and commercial disputes. In addition to having offices in London and Dubai, RIAA Barker Gil- lette is the exclusive member firm in Pakistan for Lex Mundi, the world’s leading network of independent law firms (with members in more than 125 countries).
Authors
Nadir Altaf joined RIAA Barker Gillette as a partner in 2008. He has more than 30 years’ experience of specialising in project finance, energy, corporate/ commercial, regulatory law, and
Muhammad Fahim Khan is a senior associate in RIAA Barker Gillette’s energy team in Islamabad, Pakistan, with multiple years of experience in project finance, energy,
international dispute resolution. Previously, Nadir worked at a federal government facilitative body for private investment in the energy sector (the Private Power and Infrastructure Board) and at Pakistan’s electricity sector regulator, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority. His energy expertise includes the development of large hydropower, thermal, solar and wind power projects. Nadir is licensed as an advocate by the Punjab Bar Council.
corporate-commercial matters, regulatory law and dispute resolution. He is licensed as a High Court advocate by the Islamabad Bar Council. Fahim has advised on numerous hydropower, alternative energy and thermal power projects, as well as infrastructure projects such as special economic zones.
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