Practice Areas

We provide multifarious financial services and products, ranging from syndicated, leveraged financing to different modes of Islamic financing. Our expertise is crystalized in our services yielded in the banking and financing sector to corporations, banks, financial institutions and individuals.

Our services include, amongst others, providing swift and precise counsel to corporations and regulatory bodies alike, with respect to laws, rules, regulations and case law applicable to domestic and cross-border banking and financing.

Our Services Include:

• Drafting of finance and security documents both bilateral and syndicate finance facilities through conventional financing and/or financing through Islamic modes of finance.
• Drafting and advising in settlement/restructuring/rescheduling loan agreements for banks, modarabas and development financial institutions.
• Conducting legal audits of the existing customers of the banks.
• Advising banks and financial institutions from a day to day regulatory compliance perspective.
• Filing of banking recovery cases and also appearing on behalf of customers at the Banking Court or the High Court.
• Rendering Opinions.

Ghazi & Nausherwan has a well-rounded team, capable of resolving the client’s complicated and stressful disputes, in a broad legal spectrum. The Partners and their team are fully dedicated to providing the best of services to their clients, as far as legal representation and litigation are concerned. The highly-qualified team of Barristers and Solicitors not only provide the highest quality of legal representation and litigation, but also offer thorough advice keeping in view the merits of the case, offering our services at all stages of alternative dispute resolution such as Arbitration, Negotiation and Mediation.

Areas of Litigation:

• Banking Disputes & Recovery of Finances
• Civil Disputes
• Commercial & Contractual Disputes
• Constitutional Law & Statutory rights enforcement
• Defamation & Reputation Management
• Employment Disputes
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Property & Real Estate Disputes
• Criminal Matters

Our firm has had the distinguished privilege of engaging and interacting with, and catering to businesses ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations with respect to their legal and business inquiries and requirements. We have intrinsically developed such professional ethos that translate in understanding our client’s businesses, their priorities, their vision and incorporating such understanding in to our legal products.

We assist our clients, on regular basis, with corporate matters ranging from regulatory approvals and filings to tax filings and shareholders’ agreements with diligence and an acute attention to detail. Well renowned for honoring our deadlines, we have consistently delivered counsel to domestic and international businesses with respect to complex transactions.

Key Services:

• Conducting extensive due diligence from a both a buyers’ and a sellers’ perspective.
• Drafting of joint venture agreements and advising our client on the most viable business model for undertaking the proposed project.
• Advising on winding up and liquidation along with appearing in the High Courts if winding up is being conducted through the Court.
• Regulatory matters pertaining to businesses.
• Drafting of Shareholders’ Agreement, Share Purchase Agreement and Partnership Agreements.
• Mergers & Acquisitions along with dealing with all the regulatory entities in respect of the same.

In Pakistan, there are several acts, ordinances and regulations governing the employer/employee relationship. These laws are the barometer through which employers, employees, government entities and trade unions gauge their bargaining powers in the commercial arena.

Our modus operandi is to ease our client’s burden with respect to their regulatory compliance requirements and allow them to conduct their business activities with efficiency.

• Advisory Services and legal representation with respect to Pension Funds, Provident Funds and Gratuity. Formulation and preparation of HR Policies as well as the review of existing HR framework.
• Legal representation in respect of all employment and labour disputes including matters relating to EOBI and SESSI obligations at all judicial forums including the appellate jurisdiction of the High Courts of Pakistan.
• Advice on and preparation of employment contracts ranging from workmen contracts to contracts for senior management.

The team at Ghazi & Nausherwan is well versed in all areas of property law and has an extensive experience in dealing with matters pertaining to property law and transactions related to Real estate. Not only can we provide our services in the transactional aspects of property law, but we also provide advisory and dispute resolution legal services pertaining to property law at all forums.

• Sale and purchase of residential and commercial properties.
• Advising banks and financial institution through diligent property reviews for real estate financing facilities and security collateral.
• All aspects of landlord and tenant matters.
• Partition, Demarcation and suits for possession in matters of Agricultural Property.
• Property dispute resolution.
• Assisting with recoveries for lenders when borrowers default.

GN Legal is capable of offering our clients end to end services in respect of all Intellectual Property matters. The registration and commercialization of all forms of Intellectual Property is also within the ambit of our expertise.

We provide advisory services in respect of transactions involving Intellectual Property including the transfer or licensing of Intellectual Property rights between two parties along with the preparation of the necessary documentation in respect of the same.

• Trade-Mark, Copyright or Design/Patent Rights Registration.
• Conducting search and obtaining clearance certificates in respect of any proposed Trade-Mark, Copyright or Design/Patent registration.
• Litigation of Intellectual Property claims, which includes any matter such as oppositions at the registration stage up to the appellate jurisdiction of the High Courts of Pakistan.
• Proceedings in respect of Trade-Mark, Copyright or Design/Patent infringement, passing off etc.
• Protection and enforcement of Trade-Mark Rights.
• Market Surveillance to monitor any infringements or counterfeit of our clients Intellectual Property.

The Commercial aspect of any corporate entity profoundly depends upon negotiating commercially beneficial arrangements and entering into contracts and agreements with other entities. GN Legal is proficient in assisting entities in their negotiations from a legal and commercial perspective and also specializes in drafting agreements to help its clients achieve the best possible arrangements from a business, as well as strategic point of view.

• Negotiating/drafting commercial contracts and rendering effective commercial advice.
• Cross-border joint ventures.
• Consultancy Agreements.
• IT Agreements.
• Corporate Agreements including but not limited to Share Purchase Agreement, Shareholders’ Agreement, etc.
• Advertising Agreements.
• Supply and distribution Agreements.
• Sale and Purchase Agreements.

We offer a wide array of corporate secretarial services to our clients. We endeavor to assist our clients in all matters relating to Corporate Governance and matters of statutory and regulatory compliance.

• Incorporation of all types of corporate entities.
• Incorporation/branch registration for foreign companies.
• Registration of partnerships.
• Attending meetings of shareholders and directors.
• Preparing resolutions for directors and shareholders meetings.
• Facilitating compliance of the decisions/resolutions.
• Maintenance of minute books of meetings.
• Advice and representation regarding obtaining licenses or authorizations from government departments.