Corporate & Company Laws

Our team offers advice on incorporation and post incorporation modalities, while ensuring compliance of all procedural requirements with all relevant authorities including but not limited to Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the Federal Board of Revenue, Punjab Revenue Authority and the Board of Investment. The team is fully equipped in resolving complex director and shareholder disputes. Our team of lawyers are serving as legal advisers to various companies registered with the SECP.

We offer transactional advisory to different corporations specific to corporate restructuring and prepare feasibility reports giving special attention to the regulatory and legal parameters of specific nature to facilitate the client to proceed with the particular project. We also draft Shareholder Agreements, Franchise Agreements, Distributor Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Equity Agreements, Merger & Acquisition Agreements, Partnership Agreements along with executing due diligence for investors. Furthermore, Munir & Munir is actively engaged in corporate litigation and the winding up of companies.

Property & Real Estate Law

Munir & Munir are well known for their skill in the area of the property and real estate whilst successfully representing various clients all over the country. We advise on sale-purchase, registration of moveable and immovable property, due diligence, acquisition and disposition of single assets and portfolios, distressed real estate and workouts, mortgage, development and construction, leasing, joint venture and representation in real estate litigation.

Immigration Law

We provide immigration services and support, comprising of law practices and immigration consultancies, that work together to support clients across all regions globally. The firm leverages its collective immigration experience to offer our clients' targeted solutions that help them achieve their local, regional and worldwide business goals. Our unblemished success and track record in this field has led us to be on the panel of numerous foreign missions in Pakistan.

Our prime services include Citizenship and Residence by way of Investment, Entrepreneurship/ Business Immigration and Skilled Immigration to Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. Our qualitative services in reference to immigration include providing comprehensive guidance, performing due diligence, drafting the necessary documents, legal processing and attestation of documents. Furthermore, we assist with appeals and hearings pertaining to the issues or objections posed by the relevant immigration authorities.

Transportation Law

We offer a broad range of services related to matters of shipping and transportation which are inclusive of drafting Freightage agreements, Charter-Party agreements, Stevedoring agreements and Cartage agreements. The team handles litigation and arbitration in such matters inclusive of Admiralty suits.

Banking & Financial Law

Our team has extensively worked on banking suits, recovery suits, negotiation of loan terms, litigation with a comprehensive understanding of financing and security arrangements (including enforcements), debt-to-equity conversions, syndicated and substantial loan transactions and Islamic modes of financing. We draft, negotiate and advise upon extensive suits of documentation. We also advise regulatory authorities and various government departments.

Our team represents the interests of our clients in virtually all regulatory matters pertaining to capital markets, financial regulation, compliance, enforcement and general banking.

Energy, Oil & Gas

Our team is specialized in all areas pertaining to energy, oil, and gas which includes three major components; namely, upstream (exploration and production), midstream (storage and transportation), and downstream (fuels and lubricants, marketing and refining, retail and chemicals). We have the academic and practical expertise which equips us to provide consolidated advice in drafting and litigation as external legal counsels. We advise on the entire life cycle of oil and gas projects, including refinery and pipeline construction, oil and transportation agreements, and disputes affecting the sector. We also provide due diligence services to oil marketing companies with respect to the acquisition, and setting up of petrol stations and represent them before any competent authority.

Furthermore, we assist with all matters pertaining to power projects which consist of negotiating with Nepra, tariff-setting agreements, and power-purchase agreements. Our expertise also includes assisting in project structuring, tax planning, regulatory compliance, EPC contracts, project conventional debt & equity financing, and site lease & acquisition.

Litigation Law

Munir & Munir is fully equipped and experienced in representation before all the judicial/quasi- judicial forums of Pakistan, inclusive of representation before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Our team of competent trial lawyers have a remarkable track record of success whilst trying civil cases in courts around the region. Being vastly experienced in major constitutional litigation, complex commercial matters, banking and finance disputes to tax litigation, consumer disputes, white-collar crime and property disputes, inheritance and custody; our lawyers are equipped to provide result-oriented professional representation of the highest quality. The nexus of concrete trial experience and business-oriented approach enables us to handle the most complex cases in the jurisdictions of Lahore, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Multan, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Peshawar and Islamabad. In addition to the above, our lawyers provide representation before administrative/regulatory authorities as well as specialized tribunals across the country.

Intellectual Law

A developing field such as Intellectual Property protection requires thorough knowledge of respective mechanisms and breadth of experience in the area. Our team is well versed in areas of patent, copyright and trademark.

We have represented our clients before Intellectual Property tribunals in matters of infringement and enforcement litigation. We advise our clients in brand availability and clearance searches to protect and maintain their rights in trademarks, logos, slogans and specialize in copyright licensing. Our firm provides services to any client who wishes to copyright a layout design of an integrated circuit or an industrial design. The firm advises and assists clients to file and register patents, acquire certification of Geographic Indication (GI), goods based solely on its area of origination. Our team has experience in conducting Intellectual Property audit, a relatively new development in this area of law which enables the client to comprehensively understand the value of its Intellectual Property.

Taxation Law

Labour Law

The firm offers a full spectrum of employment related services, with focus on work place policies and procedures, employment and termination agreements, Human Resource policies and compliance with local labour regulations.

We enable our clients to devise and implement comprehensive employment policies and procedures in order to maximize the value of their human capital. Our team experience includes drafting employment contracts, internal employment bylaws, management agreements, documentation for employment termination, non-compete agreements and confidentiality agreements. In case of the breach of any of the aforementioned agreements, the firm provides representation for clients facing union campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, employment termintion, industrial disputes and bilateral negotiations.

Our team is fully equipped to appear before labour courts, appellate tribunals and industrial relations commissions up till the Supreme court of Pakistan.

Project Procurement

The firm has extensive experience in dealing with regulatory authorities at the provincial and federal levels directly and on behalf of our clients. The firm is well versed with PPRA rules and regulations and has assisted our clients from inception to the successful running of projects at the provincial and federal levels. We have drafted TORs, RFPs, regulations and different framework agreements for government entities and their ongoing projects which in turn has led to the development of goodwill and a firm working relationship with the authorities such as Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan, Lahore Development Authority, Public Procurement Regulatory Authority, Fort Munro Development Authority, Punjab Board of Investment and Trade and others.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Through our well established platform of ADR with the relevant academic certifications which are necessary for adjudication in such matters, our team combines regional expertise and personalized client service and applies it to the most complex business disputes. With the support of attorneys and professionals of other practice areas and fields, our lawyers, draw upon the unique skills of their colleagues to provide a comprehensive approach to problem solving and create added value for our clients. Our services include drafting of arbitration clauses, preparation of arbitration references and conducting arbitration proceedings with or without court intervention.