A graduate of the University of London LL. B (Hons) Programme, Mr. Ahsan A. Munir is a licensed attorney at the High Courts and has been practicing law since the year 2010. He later pursued his LL.M. in Petroleum Taxation and Finance from the prestigious Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee, Scotland in 2012. He holds certifications for International Upstream Petroleum Licensing; Strategies and Tactics for Host Governments & Oil Companies from the CEPMLP (2011), Oil and Gas Upstream Regulatory Framework in Pakistan from the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (2015), Private International Law, European Union Law and Comparative International Law from the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law (2017) amongst others.
Mr. Ahsan has been associated with the top tier energy law firms in Lahore from the outset of his legal career. He has exclusively worked for a leading Pakistani multinational energy conglomerate company and managed their legal & corporate affairs for two years. He has diligently represented oil marketing companies at all judicial and quasi-judicial forums in Pakistan including Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, Federal Board of Revenue, the Board of Investment of Pakistan, Federal Investigation Agency and Ministry of Industries amongst others.
Since his induction in the firm in 2016, Mr. Ahsan is engaged in litigation and his area of expertise include representing clients in contentious matters involving the fields of energy law; both local and international legislation, company law, immigration, property law, taxation and labour law. He is also actively advising local and international entities on corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, compliance policies and drafting of complex corporate agreements inclusive of joint ventures, share purchase, licenses, hospitality and concessions. He actively participates in pro bona family law litigation as well.
To work towards the aim of strengthening the academic legal front and contributing thereof; Mr. Ahsan has been teaching the disciplines of jurisprudence, contract and public international law amongst others for the past 07 years. Furthermore,
he has been inducted in the faculty of Nadra Hassan Law Department, Kinnaird College for Women University, Lahore as well as the LLM faculty for the School of Law and Policy at the University of Management and Technology in the disciplines of tax and Labour law respectively.