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Malik Hassan Shoaib Awan

Malik Hassan Shoaib Awan

Associate

LAHORE

Hassan is an associate at the Lahore office. He joined the office in March 2023 and is also admitted as an advocate of the lower courts of Pakistan. He completed his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from University of London in 2022.

Prior to joining AJURIS, Hassan worked as a trainee associate at Mandviwalla & Zafar, where he assisted on commercial transactions of various local and international companies before the SECP. During his traineeship, Hassan was also part of several public sector projects, including the amendment of the Punjab Public Private Partnership Act, 2019.

Hassan takes keen interest in constitutional, corporate and tax matters. At the firm, he regularly appears before the civil court and assists the team in the High Court proceedings.

Bachelor of Law (L.L.B)

Advocate

Constitutional Law
Taxation
Commercial and Corporate Law

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Fatima Rasool

Fatima Rasool

Associate

LAHORE

Fatima joined the firm’s Lahore office after completing her B.A. LLB from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) where she graduated with Distinction on Dean’s Honour List. She also served as Law Batch Representative in the student council and helped bring structural reforms in the law school and advocated for women empowerment.

While at LUMS, Fatima worked as a Teaching Assistant for courses such as Legal Writing and Research Methods and Startup Law, among others. She regularly assists her juniors with their academics as she enjoys teaching. She previously interned with Justice Project Pakistan, and Digital Rights Foundation as she holds an interest in Human Rights. She worked on a number of constitutional matters and public interest litigation during her other internships.

Fatima primarily works on constitutional, tax, and corporate cases.

BA-L.L.B (Hons.), LUMS (Distinction)

Constitutional Law
Corporate & Commercial Law

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Haris Irfan

Haris Irfan

Associate Partner

LAHORE

Haris is an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from Georgetown University where he graduated with distinction on the Dean’s Honour List. He completed his BA-LL.B (Hons.) from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) where he also graduated with High Distinction as a merit scholar.

His primary areas of practice are tax, constitutional and commercial law.

He regularly appears in constitutional, tax and commercial matters before the High Courts. He has successfully appeared for and advised some of the largest groups and companies in Pakistan in major tax litigation and commercial and regulatory disputes. Recently he represented various multinational corporations in challenging the imposition of Super Tax inserted in the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 through Finance Act 2022. Moreover, he also successfully represented various holding companies in challenging the imposition of tax on intercorporate dividends.

Haris also routinely appears before lower courts as well as regulatory tribunals representing clients on various tax, commercial and service law matters.

During his time at the firm, Haris has also assisted the Senior Partner in representing clients before the Supreme Court in seminal constitutional matters. He assisted in representing the Chief Minister of Punjab and a leading political party in various constitutional law matters before the Supreme Court including the matter regarding the election of the Chief Minister of Punjab. He also assisted the Senior Partner in representing the Supreme Court Bar Association in a matter pertaining to the secrecy of ballot in senate elections before the Supreme Court.

As part of his advisory practice, he regularly advises domestic and foreign clients on corporate, commercial, tax and investment matters.

LL.B (Hons), Lahore University of Management Sciences (High Distinction)
LL.M Georgetown Law (Distinction)

Commercial and Corporate Law
Constitutional Law
Taxation
Transactional

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Shaban Nadeem

Shaban Nadeem

Associate

LAHORE

Mr. Nadeem is an advocate of the High Courts. He completed his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Hons.) from Cardiff University in 2019.

During the course of his degree, he acquired litigation and transactional work experience. He worked at Hill Dickinson LLP (London) and Clarke Willmott Solicitors (Taunton) in the UK. Additionally he also worked at Shook Lin & Bok (Kuala Lumpur) as an intern.

Shaban primarily focuses on constitutional, commercial and tax litigation. He works with the Senior Partner on tax references, appellate cases, and constitutional petitions before the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He also regularly appears before the lower courts, tribunals and special courts.

Previously, Shaban has worked as a trainee associate at Liaquat Merchant Associates, Karachi, where he worked on various commercial transactions and Islamic finance contracts for banks.

LL.B (Hons.), Cardiff University

Constitutional Law
Corporate and Commercial
Taxation Law

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Umair Ahmad

Umair Ahmad

Associate Partner

LAHORE

Umair is an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Harvard Law School. He completed his BA-LL.B (Hons.) from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) where he majored in law and minored in political science, with high distinction.

Umair’s primary areas of practice are tax, constitutional and commercial law. He regularly appears in constitutional, tax and commercial matters before the High Courts and has successfully appeared for and advised some of the largest groups and companies in Pakistan in major tax litigation and commercial and regulatory disputes.

Umair also routinely appears before lower courts as well as regulatory tribunals representing clients on various tax, commercial and service law matters.

During his time at the firm, Umair has also assisted the Senior Partner in representing clients before the Supreme Court in seminal constitutional matters including relating to the dissolution of national and provincial assemblies and vote of no-confidence.

As part of his advisory practice, he regularly advises domestic and foreign clients on corporate, commercial, tax and investment matters.

LL.B (Hons.), Lahore University of Management Sciences (High Distinction)
LL.M, Harvard Law School

Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Commercial and Corporate Law
Taxation

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Fatima Naeem Qureshi

Fatima Naeem Qureshi

Partner

LAHORE

Fatima Naeem Qureshi is an Advocate of the High Court and has been in legal practice since 2002. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from University of the Punjab and a Master of Laws from the Harvard law School, where she was a scholarship student for the year 2003-2004.

She started her career as a litigator in 2004. Fatima has actively practiced at the High Court and has assisted senior advocates in the Supreme Court on several landmark constitutional cases. She has also been actively involved in the enforcement of international treaty obligations of Pakistan regarding climate change, management of hospital and industrial waste etc.. Fatima has also worked on the World Bank projects related to combatting vehicular emissions in the province of Punjab, amongst others.

Fatima has also been involved in the alternate dispute resolution focusing on commercial arbitration. She has previously been engaged in setting up and managing arbitration centers as well as being engaged in several mediations. She is also a certified mediator with CEDR UK and is on the board of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry for commercial mediations.

She has considerable experience in legal and developmental consultancies and has worked extensively with international organizations such as the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Environmental Program and The Prime Ministers Task Force for Affordable Housing. She has regularly advised on environment enforcement regimes, developing and executing training modules in the lower and higher Judiciary, development of legal and regulatory framework for not for profit and non-governmental organizations, bringing in policy change in the legal education systems, urban development reforms, addressing governance issues in water and sanitation departments and restructuring of acquisition laws.

Fatima is currently a partner at the Lahore Office of our firm.

LLB Punjab University
LLM Harvard Law School

Commercial and Corporate
Taxation Law
Constitutional Law

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Mansoor Usman Awan

Mansoor Usman Awan

(On leave of absence)

Senior Partner

LAHORE | ISLAMABAD

Mr. Awan holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School, USA and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from University of the Punjab where he stood first in the Punjab University Law College and was awarded Justice M. Jan Memorial gold medal for obtaining 1st position in Jurisprudence and Charles Earl Bevan Petman Law Prize for 1st position in Criminal Law.

Mr. Awan is a recipient of the Harvard Law School Dean’s Award for Leadership (2005). At Harvard Law, he was elected as the LLM Representative to Harvard Law School Council and he also served as the Vice President of Harvard Graduate Council.

Mr. Awan has the distinction of practicing law in four (4) jurisdictions i.e. USA, the UK, the UAE and Pakistan. He has worked with Shearman & Sterling LLP and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in their capital markets, corporate finance, structured finance, projects & infrastructure finance as well as M&A and Private Equity groups. He has worked on multi-billion dollar transactions while representing the sponsors, lead arrangers, lead book-running managers and underwriters. Apart from his transactional experience, he has represented large multinational companies in both contentious matters before the courts in Pakistan. Mr. Awan has represented clients such as, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citibank N.A, Lehman Brothers, Kuwait Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi Investment Council and Virgin Group of Companies in their various financing, private equity and capital markets transactions.

Currently, Mr. Awan regularly advises and represents clients on taxation, regulatory, commercial and constitutional matters in High Courts and the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

He is admitted to the bar in the State of New York and is also an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Mr. Awan splits his time between Lahore and Islamabad Offices.

LLB Punjab University (Gold Medalist)
LLM Harvard Law School

Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan
Attorney-at-Law New York

Commercial and Corporate
Taxation Law
Constitutional Law