SYED MOHAMMAD BILAL AHMAD
Admitted to practice in 2008.
Solicitor (London)
Advocate High Court
LL.B. (Hons.) University of Northumbria, New Castle, UK
MARCI (London)
B.A. (Punjab)
Professional Affiliations
Punjab Bar Council
Lahore High Court Bar Association
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London
Chartered Institute of Insurance, London
British Institute of Corporate and Comparative Law, London
Lincoln’s Inn
Expertise
Main area of work is Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, Telecoms, Infrastructure and Power Projects, Financial Transactions, Company Law, Civil and Constitutional Litigation, negotiation and drafting of contracts, conveyancing, Arbitration, advising and structuring financing transactions including in the power, oil and gas sector.
Notable Engagements
LITIGATION:
- Successfully represented a construction company and got a restraining order on a wrongful encashment of bank guarantee.
- Successfully represented a construction contractor in a World Bank Project involving a bank guarantee issue.
- Represented a client before banking judge and subsequently before the high court under the Financial Recoveries Ordinance 2001 and got leave to defend. (The amount involved was 430 million Pak Rupees).
- Successfully represented a leading marble manufacturer in a partnership dispute. The assets were worth 830 million Pak Rupees.
- Successfully represented shareholders of a leading shipping company and oil company before the honorable Sindh high court.
- Successfully represented Ex-Director General CAA in the Aviation Accident of Bhoja Air Crash before the Sub-ordinate Criminal Jurisdiction of Islamabad High court.
CONSULTANCY:
- Advised Pakistan Air Force, Kamra, on taxation issue regarding the transactional arrangement on a Tri-par trite agreement between Katech (World’s tenth biggest aircraft manufacturing company), Pakistan Air Force and China State.
- Advised Pakistan Air Force, Kamra, on an arbitration issue involving a construction dispute regarding encashment of bank guarantees amounting 9 billion Pak Rupees.
- Advised an Independent Power Producer (IPP) for establishment of 330 Mega Watt Power Plant.
- Advised a leading Aviation Company regarding the jurisdictional issues.
- Advised a British client on foreign direct investment amounting 5 million USD.
- Advised a leading Pakistani British Surgeon on establishing a surgical facility in Pakistan.
- Provided consultancy to a leading electronic manufacturer on intellectual property.
- Legal advisor to Gunj Glass Industries. (A listed company and leading glass manufacturers of Pakistan).
- Advised a Turkish Construction Company on corporate issues.
- Advised a leading construction magnet of Indonesia working in Libya on construction and corporate issues.
- Advised Lotte Chemicals former ICI on human resource related issue.
- Legal advisor to a Karachi based educational institution with an overall student strength of seven thousand and teaching staff of seven hundred.
ARBITRATION:
- Ali Power Engineering System vs City School (pvt.) Ltd. The proceedings held at Lahore.
- Rewterz (a US based software firm) vs Ministry of Education, Oman – the arbitration proceedings held in Dubai and Oman.
- JML vs OPF. The proceedings held at Islamabad.
- AS Khan vs Workers Welfare Fund. The proceedings held at Islamabad.