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Adeel Wahid

Adeel Wahid

Associate Partner

ISLAMABAD

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.

BSc (Econ. and Political Science), Lahore University of Management Sciences
Juris Doctor, University of Michigan

Advocate, High Court of Pakistan
Attorney-at-Law in the State of New York

Constitutional Law
Corporate & Commercial Law
Energy & Infrastructure Projects
Tax Law
Telecom Law

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Salaar Khan

Salaar Khan

Partner

ISLAMABAD

Salaar is an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan, and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. He holds a Masters in Law from Columbia Law School, where he served on the board of the Columbia International Arbitration Association, and a BA-LL.B. (Hons.) from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where he was President of the student body.

He regularly appears in constitutional; commercial; and taxation matters before the High Courts, and has also been appointed amicus curiae by the Islamabad High Court. In addition to representing private persons, Salaar has also represented authorities such as the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the Frequency Allocation Board, and the National Commission for Human Rights.

Salaar joined AJURIS’s Islamabad office in 2020. Previously, he worked as an Associate to the Attorney-General for Pakistan where he assisted the Attorney-General in significant constitutional matters before the Supreme Court, as well as disputes before various international forums.

In addition to his litigation practice Salaar provides advisory and consultancy services to organisations such as the World Bank and the UNFPA, and has assisted with the drafting of laws and regulations for organisations such as the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. He is also a part of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Public Interest Law Association of Pakistan, a mentor for the US-based Revive Labs, and a member of the Government of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa’s Youth Development Commission.

He has also been a member of faculty for the University of London’s External LLB Program, where he has taught Public International Law; a self-designed seminar on the Pakistani legal system; and supervised final year dissertations.

Salaar writes columns on law and politics for The News, and regularly appears as a legal analyst on national and international media platforms such as BBC World.

LLB (Hons.), Lahore University of Management Sciences
LLM, Columbia Law School

Advocate High Court of Pakistan
Attorney-at-Law in the State of New York

Constitutional Law
Corporate & Commercial Law
Energy & Infrastructure Projects
Tax Law
Telecom Law

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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