Expertise

The experience of our lawyers in contentious commercial and civil litigation spans over a number of years. Not only do we regularly represent multinationals and local corporations before the Supreme Court, High Courts of Pakistan and the subordinate District Courts, but also counsel Government functionaries on complex constitutional matters.

The spectrum of our litigation practice ranges from property law disputes, real estate and construction matters, constitutional petitions, white-collar crime, contractual disputes, intellectual property matters, employment disputes, taxation and customs duty assessments and liabilities, domestic and family disputes, shipping and admiralty, telecommunications, as well as media.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement
Haider Waheed	View Judgement
Haider Waheed	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement

HWP Law is reguarly instructed in a wide range of arbitrations.
Our lawyers have wide experience of acting as advocates in arbitrations conducted under all the major domestic and international institutional rules. Our members also act in court litigation ancillary to arbitration, such as disputes about the validity of arbitration agreements, claims for pre-arbitration injunctive relief, and challenges to and the enforcement of arbitral awards. We have experience of arbitrations involving parties from a wide range of industry sectors covering all areas of our expertise.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

Our team works with and is affiliated with the dedicated corporate and commercial law firm i.e. MSB Consultants, on all matters related to corporate and compliance issues. This collected team of qualified lawyers believes in securing the most water-tight arrangements for clients in the most pro-commercial and risk-averse manner.

Contracts are at the very core of any corporate or commercial relationship, and our team can draft and advise over a wide variety of them, of a basic or highly complex nature. Our corporate team advises governmental organizations and all sectors of businesses from people in executive roles, to shareholders, investors and lenders.

Given that our firm is integrated into the legal and business fabric of Pakistan, as well as worldwide, we are a key player to advise on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public company takeovers, venture capital, private equity and equity capital markets transactions. We also lead our clients through every step of the legal process, making sure that they are in the know and adequately advised.

Since a large proportion of our clients are local and foreign companies, we advise them on all aspects of the governance and administration of companies, including compliance with the SECP. In terms of compliance, some laws are fluid and not in stasis, and thus we help our local as well as foreign clients be notified of such changes that would affect their businesses, and offer dynamic solutions to retain the balance that work best for our clients’ needs and objectives.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

We provide legal advice and representation to our domestic and international clients in relation to all matters pertaining to employment and labour laws, and we also provide advice in matters relating to the complex legalities of human resource management.

Our services include advice in relation to employment, termination, regulatory requirements and dispute resolution. We continue to represent companies, employees and civil servants before the Labour Courts, Service Tribunals, High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan.

In addition, we advise businesses of all sizes, i.e. from start-ups to international Fortune 500 companies on the different facets of employee benefit programs, including EOBI and Provident Funds.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Shahzeb Akhter	View Judgement

HWP Law is home to some of the leading property practitioners in Karachi. Our lawyers, especially senior Partners are prominent experts in all areas of property work (both litigious and transactional) including commercial and residential, landlord and tenant, covenants and easements, land registration, mines and minerals, purchase and development of land.

Our lawyers frequently appear in all varieties of civil jurisdiction for major investors and developers, as well as high net worth investors, businesses and individuals.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Abdul Moiz Jafferi	View Judgement

A number of our lawyers have significant experience of a wide range of high profile and high value direct tax litigation and related advisory work, particularly in areas where multi-disciplinary skills come to the fore.
Many of the cases in which our lawyers have acted have involved cross-over with expertise in the areas of commercial law, complex financial instruments, valuation, company law, insolvency and professional negligence. HWP Law regularly acts in litigation at all levels from the First-tier Tribunal to the Supreme Court.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement
Haider Waheed	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Abdul Moiz Jafferi	View Judgement
Abdul Moiz Jafferi	View Judgement
Abdul Moiz Jafferi	View Judgement

Our firm has extensive experience in all aspects of criminal prosecution/defense from investigation to trial and beyond, as well as in advising businesses and individuals in relation to the legal strategies which they need to take in order to mitigate the loss/damage.

Our firm’s advocates have advised and represented several high-profile individuals, both at the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan that had matters that involved complex legal and evidentiary issues. We can deal with a wide array of issues in this area, including but not limited to National Accountability Bureau (NAB), money laundering, international banking fraud and illegal property transactions.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Rehan Kiyani	View Judgement

HWP Law offers expertise in copyright, passing off and trademarks with our lawyers providing the highest quality advice and advocacy in pure intellectual property cases and in cases which intellectual property rights form part of a wider multi-disciplinary dispute.
Our lawyers have acted regularly in the Tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court in recent years.
We also have also provided advice and representation across a range of the media industries, including TV and Sports rights, newspapers and computer software.
In addition to infringement claims, we provide a great depth of experience in copyright licensing. The involvement of our lawyers in intellectual property related tribunals and related arbitrations over many years enables us to offer an informed and profound understanding of the economics and commercial realities of the creative industries.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

Our team of lawyers are adept at handling the entire spectrum of government enforcement cases that arise for our clients, ranging from policy making and training, to routine government summons/notices and agendas, and even to full blown crises, such as law-enforcement raids on organizations culpable of malpractices.

We fully support our clients during and after proceedings, in order to have the best possible results for them. On the whole, a key agenda of our dealings of these high-stakes’ governmental engagements is that we can maintain order and a lack of disruption to our clients’ businesses, as well as we can manage matters in the most subtle and private manner.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

Healthcare disputes can often turn ugly and lead to long-standing antagonism between the conflicting parties, if not resolved timely. Our team represents healthcare providers and hospitals in a number of capacities. Our lawyers are proficient at representing clients of medical negligence claims. Also, Pakistan’s leading hospitals regularly seek our advice and representation in relation to their contentious disputes. We are on hands to settle medical disputes, no matter how big or small.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

Handling administrative and regulatory matters is the forte of advocates at our firm. We have represented clients in a wide array of matters, including cases related to antitrust issues, civil investigative demands, environmental permitting and compliance, and land use and zoning matters, etc.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement
Abdul Moiz Jafferi	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement
Abdul Moiz Jafferi	View Judgement
Ahmed Masood	View Judgement

Our team is experienced in representing clients in maritime disputes involving a broad spectrum of issues, including, but not limited to, arrest of ships, charter parties, collisions, cargo claims, maritime liens, etc. Having expertise in the Pakistani maritime law as well as international conventions, our lawyers deal with claims of collision and casualties. Finally, we represent our clients in defending any claim in rem or in personam at the time of instituting proceedings at the competent courts.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

We advise in insurance matters on the legal and regulatory framework applicable to our jurisdiction. We advise clients on insurance contracts and litigation on insurance claims, and our team of experienced advocates have particular expertise in handling bad faith and punitive damages claims. We also specialize in marine insurance.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

Our cross-border work encompasses various industries, including, but not limited to, healthcare, technology, financial institutions, manufacturing and retail sectors, as well as litigation and compliance expertise. Due to the fact that a number of our clients are multinational, we have pursued a strategy of building relationships with leading law firms around the world to better serve these clients. We leverage these relationships to provide exceptional service to our clients for their cross-border needs. Our international work emphasizes cross-border mergers and acquisitions, government investigations, environmental compliance and all types of litigation.

Lead Counsel	Landmark Judgement

Civil liberties and human rights cases are among the most important cases before the Courts, preserving the balance of interests between individual rights and the State. HWP Law is particularly noted for its ability to provide advice and advocacy in cases that develop the law and where a strategic and innovative approach is needed. The set has an almost unique mixture of expertise across traditional Petitioner and Respondent public law, regulatory law, and commercial litigation and is able to offer lateral thinking practitioners at all levels of experience able to operate to their client’s advantage. Our regular area of expertise includes constitutionally mandated rights, judicial review, education, environment, freedom of expression, freedom of information, local government, provincial government, federal government, taxation, police and other regulatory matters.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

HWP Law is a leading set in the field of Commercial Disputes encompassing both advocacy and advisory work, and our lawyers are renowned for their expertise in all aspects of commercial disputes including legal advice, court litigation, arbitration and ADR.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in the full spectrum of commercial claims and related fields within the commercial sphere, such as civil fraud, company and insolvency, banking and financial services and trusts such that, whatever its nature and size, HWP Law has the depth and range of expertise to handle all aspects of the dispute. Our lawyers, at all levels of seniority, regularly litigate claims in court and arbitration; excellence in advocacy is one of the hallmarks of HWP Law.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

Many members of Chambers practise in the banking and financial services area, acting both for and against banks and other financial institutions, as well as public bodies concerned in financial services regulation.
Financial services regulation and litigation are core areas of practice for HWP Law, sited at the intersection of the Chambers’ commercial and public law expertise. Our lawyers have extensive regulatory and litigation experience acting for and against a wide variety of regulatory authorities, corporations and individuals, throughout Pakistan. This includes acting in relation to SECP, State Bank, and tribunals specially designated for such purposes; in judicial reviews of regulatory action; and in commercial claims involving breaches of the Securities Act and Companies Act and banking litigation more generally.
The multi-specialist nature of our lawyers also allows HWP Law to be the perfect choice for clients who have cases with elements concerning other specialisms, such as company, partnership, insolvency, real estate or fraud. This gives HWP Law the edge over some of its more narrowly-focused rivals.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

We pride ourselves on the multi-disciplinary skills of our lawyers and our ability to offer the right mix of seniority and experience to deal with any dispute in the fields of our expertise, ranging from the largest and most complex pieces of litigation and arbitration, to the smallest disputes. Thus providing our clients with an advantage when different areas of specialism overlap.
Company and partnership disputes regularly throw up complex issues involving a wide range of legal disciplines including fraud, insolvency, trusts, property rights and negligence, and HWP Law is able to put together a team which can readily cover all such issues.
With a vast number of silks and juniors specialising in company and partnership law, our members regularly appear in courts and tribunals of every level in the Country.
We have been instructed in relation to many of the major domestic disputes involving company and partnership matters in the last few decades across a wide variety of industries, including banking and financial services, retail, tech and construction.
In addition to heavy trial and arbitration hearings, members are regularly instructed in the appellate courts on complex and important questions of company and partnership law.
Our members are also often instructed to provide company and partnership advice and assistance in a range of jurisdictions, including the the UK, Dubai, Bermuda, Singapore, Italy and Saudi Arabia.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

HWP Law offers a wide range of experience in this field. We are regularly instructed by major broadcasters, publishers, newspapers and distribution companies as well as artists, performers, composers, writers, managers and agents.
Our expertise embraces all aspects of the media and entertainment industries and covers, in particular, licensing agreements and contractual disputes, royalty payments, rights infringement claims, issues arising out of co-productions and joint ventures, and grants of media and broadcasting rights.
Our members are also able to draw upon their expertise in commercial, insolvency, and property disputes in order to advise on disputes in the media and entertainment sector featuring these angles.
We provide expertise in intellectual property rights, in particular copyright, passing off, trade marks, breach of confidence and image rights.
Our members appear regularly in the Supreme Courtl and High Court in media and entertainment disputes and have particular expertise of acting in cases before the specialist intellectual property tribunals.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

HWP Law provides suppliers, contracting authorities and utilities with a full range of services, from non-contentious advice during the tender process to representation in highly complex litigation.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement

HWP Law has a significant Telecommunications practice, building on its expertise in commercial, public law and regulatory matters. Our lawyers advise and represent regulators, operators and consumers on issues including regulatory, public law and competition.
Our lawyers advise on a wide range of issues related to the construction of licenses, arbitration clauses, and the effect of constitutional freedom of expression and property guarantees on exclusivity.

Lead Counsel

Landmark Judgement