FinTech Legal - Pakistan
What the team is known for
Akhund Forbes handles legal and regulatory mandates for major payments providers, investors and asset managers. It is experienced in licensing, set-up and investment structuring in the FinTech industry.
Strengths
"They were very responsive and understood complex issues well. The team assigned to us had knowledge and experience of doing both contractual work and M&A."
"They know tech vendors well; they have helped us negotiate contracts with these high-level companies. They navigate us through all the tricky agreements which they ensure are watertight. Their drafting was very savvy, which is why we prefer working with them."
Work highlights
Akhund Forbes advised Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins in their joint VC investment in a start-up Digital Bank in Pakistan.
Notable practitioners
Rabel Akhund and Sahar Iqbal are key contacts for this work at Akhund Forbes.