Asfandyar is an Associate Partner at the firm’s Islamabad office. Asfandyar graduated with a BA-LL.B. (Hons.), from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where he received the National Management Foundation Gold Medal for topping his law cohort. Asfandyar was also selected as the sole recipient of the Podell Scholarship at the NYU School of Law, where he pursued an LL.M. focusing on securities law and capital markets.

At AJURIS, Asfandyar works on complex questions of constitutional and administrative law, while also contributing to the firm’s commercial disputes and tax practice. His assistance on landmark cases has been recognized by the Supreme Court of Pakistan (including on the successful challenge to the dissolution of the Parliament in April 2022), and by the Islamabad High Court (on the question of the constitutionality of certain prison rules applicable to Islamabad’s prisoners). He has also worked on High Court briefs involving sophisticated commercial transactions, such as the successful defense of the public procurement contracts pertaining to polycarbonate smart cards; the representation of a leading cellular telecom service provider in disputes pertaining to the allocation of telecom frequency spectrums; and the enforcement of arbitral awards won by working interest owners in the oil and gas industry. Asfandyar’s extensive litigation experience is relied upon by the firm’s clients for a variety of disputes, focusing on areas as diverse as competition law, FIDIC contracts, and food industry regulation.

Asfandyar frequently appears before the High Courts and specialized tribunals to represent the firm’s corporate clients. Despite his focus on litigation, he maintains a keen interest in academia, demonstrated by his appointments to adjunct faculty positions at law schools in Islamabad, and his publications on various legal issues.

Adeel’s practice focuses on constitutional, commercial and complex civil litigation. He has represented clients from the telecom, textile, construction and pharmaceutical industries. He is an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan, and is licensed to practice in the State of New York, regularly arguing before the High Courts and specialized tribunals in Pakistan. 

Previously, Adeel worked as an associate at a New York law firm, Arnold & Porter, in the general litigation department. He represented clients under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and has assisted clients in subpoena compliance. He was also part of the team representing a pharmaceutical company in a multi-district litigation. In Pakistan, he has worked at another premier law firm based in Islamabad, assisting in constitutional and commercial litigation. 

Adeel holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, and a BSc in Economics and Political Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). 

He has been a part Bahria University’s visiting faculty of law, teaching, among other courses, company law in Pakistan. Some of Adeel’s thoughts on law have been published in Dawn, The News International and Courting the Law.