The
firm
Today, Liaquat Merchant Associates ranks amongst the leading
and most respected law firms in Pakistan. Over 30 years ago,
the head of the firm, Liaquat Merchant commenced his practice
in the year 1972 in the High Court of Bombay, India. With
his diligence and vision, together with the support of his
partners, the firm has, from modest beginnings now flourished
into one of the premier law firms with its location in the
modern business heart of the city.
Liaquat Merchant Associates provides an extensive
range of legal services through its highly experienced partners
and associates, each with their own specialisation. A long
list of satisfied clientele continues to grow steadily owing
to the depth of the commercial, financial and business knowledge
and also due to the firms’ dedicated commitment to provide
quality legal and commercial advice. The firm also provides
an excellent and well recognised specialist litigation service,
which carries on the practice of law as Barristers-Advocates,
and ranges from the District Courts, Banking Tribunals, Special
Courts and High Courts to the Supreme Court. The firm is now
actively working in association with Kennedy’s, an international
law firm based in United Kingdom and Habib Al Mulla and Company,
a reputed law firm in the United Arab Emirates, and together
they have offices/associate offices in Pakistan, Middle East,
Asia Pacific, and United Kingdom.
The firm has a blend of both youth and experience,
with the four partners, Liaquat Merchant, Akbar Hayat Mirza,
Faresa Jafarey Ahsan, and Darakhshan Sheikh Vohra leading
the way in their respective fields, with strong support from
a growing number of its active associates. Lawyers at Liaquat
Merchant have been educated at leading universities both in
Pakistan and abroad, with advanced degrees in law and other
disciplines.
Areas of practice
The firm acts for a large number of multinational and local
banks, companies, insurance companies, hospitals, corporations,
business people and individuals, both in the fields of litigation
and corporate advisory legal services.
The firm's areas of specialism include: arbitration;
banking (including Islamic banking and e-banking), insurance,
commercial and company law; civil corporate law; civil commercial
litigation; company - corporate, mergers and acquisitions;
corporate joint ventures, management consultancy set up; conveyancing
and arbitration; cross-border debt and asset recovery by legal
action in the UAE and the UK (in conjunction with UAE and
UK lawyers); financial structuring and flotation of securities;
legal advisory services on the laws of Pakistan in general
to a large number of multinational and Pakistani banks and
companies; management and equity takeovers of companies; clinical
negligence litigation and medical ethics; structuring of capital
and secondary market securities; shipping and admiralty law;
syndication and project financing; defamation and libel; and
private client work.
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