About LMA Our story 40 years ago, the managing partner 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 of the country with its main office located in the modern business heart of the city, Karachi. Our work Liaquat Merchant Associates (LMA) provides an extensive range of legal services through its highly experienced partners and associates. As an established full service firm, we have a dedicated commitment to provide quality legal and commercial advice of the highest standards across various fields of specialisation. Our long list of satisfied clientele continues to grow steadily as a result of the depth of commercial, financial and business knowledge within the firm. We advise innovative leading companies and organizations and offer far-reaching services to our clients through associate offices in most major business and financial centers across the globe. LMA has its roots in banking, insurance and company law along with commercial litigation. Complimenting this core practice, we also provide an outstanding non-contentious legal consultancy service across numerous practice areas. These areas include but are not limited to capital markets, corporate/mergers and acquisitions (including competition/antitrust), derivatives, energy and power, information technology, Islamic finance, project finance, real estate and construction as well as structured finance. LMA’s other key strength lies in litigation related work, which has been expanded to include alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and further includes mediation and arbitration, clinical negligence, cross border litigation, shipping and admiralty cases, as well as mergers under the Companies Ordinance and Banking Companies Ordinance. LMA provides a reputable litigation service in the District Courts, Banking Tribunals, Special Courts and High Courts up to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Areas of practice The firm acts for a large number of multinational and local banks/ financial institutions, companies, insurance companies, hospitals, corporations, business persons and individuals, both in the fields of litigation and corporate advisory legal services. The firm's areas of specialisation 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; syndicated and project financing; defamation and libel; and private client work.