Banking & Finance
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024 : Pakistan
Band 2
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Provided by RIAA Barker Gillette
RIAA Barker Gillette maintains a leading banking and finance practice and its finance capabilities are universally recommended. We are regularly involved in major local and cross border financing and have pioneered the use of new financial instruments and structures. Over the last thirty years our partners have successfully worked with over eighty different multinational, domestic and Islamic banks and financial institutions including the Export-Import Bank of China, Citibank, IFC, ADB and the World Bank.
The Firm regularly advises sponsors, developers and lenders of projects in the full range of sectors, including energy, power, mining, transport, logistics and infrastructure. We handle a range of bank and capital market financings, as well as projects that combine different forms of complex financing models.
With a comprehensive understanding of financing and security arrangements (including enforcement), debt to equity conversions and syndicated and substantial loan transactions we have the capability of drafting, negotiating and advising on extensive suites of documentation.
The Firm also offers dedicated Sharia’h law expertise and actively drafts and provides advice with respect to all kinds of Islamic modes of finance, including Murabaha, Musharika, Sukuk and other structures.
Chambers Review
RIAA Barker Gillette has strong expertise in project finance across offices in Lahore and Karachi. The team offers a good deal of experience with clients in the energy sector and acts for an array of domestic and international financial institutions. The firm acts on major term and syndicated loan transactions, and has capabilities in Shari'a-compliant banking, including sukuk and restructuring. The department is well placed to handle cross-border work due to its network of international offices in the USA, the UK, China, Afghanistan and the UAE. The Bank of Punjab, United Bank and Habib Bank are clients of the team.
Work Highlights
- RIAA Barker Gillette advised the National Bank of Pakistan on providing a PKR65 billion credit facility in relation to the Reko Diq Project.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"RIAA is highly professional, meeting tight deadlines with the utmost proficiency. They have always come up with out-of-the-box solutions."
"The team has a lot of experience and is quick to understand the concerns that lenders have in transactions."
"RIAA is highly professional, meeting tight deadlines with the utmost proficiency. They have always come up with out-of-the-box solutions."
"The team has a lot of experience and is quick to understand the concerns that lenders have in transactions."
Notable Practitioners
Bilal Shaukat receives praise for the depth of his knowledge and his ability to handle both the legal and commercial aspects of transactions. He maintains a highly active practice representing energy companies in their project finance deals.
"He is gem of a person. He is very professional, suave and has very good commercial understanding of the matter."
Adil Khalid Tirmizey boasts an active financing practice, regularly acting for lenders. His expertise in project finance is particularly notable, including work in the power sector.
"Adil is a bright young lawyer."
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Members
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Clients
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ACT Wind (Pvt) Limited
Agricultural Bank of China
Allied Bank Limited
Asian Development Bank
Askari Bank
Bank Al-Habib Limited
Bank Alfalah Limited
Bank of China
China Construction Bank
EFG International
Elite Estates (Private) Limited
Export-Import Bank of China
Faysal Bank Limited
HSBC Bank
Habib Bank Limited
Habib Metropolitan Bank Limited
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
International Finance Corporation
Master Wind Energy Limited
Meezan Bank Limited
Metro Power Company Limited
Morgan Stanley
NIB Bank
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
Pak Brunel Investment Company Limited
Pakistan National Shipping Corporation
Punjab Thermal (Private) Limited
Rousch Pakistan (Power) Limited
Shajar Roads Limited
The Bank of Punjab
The Hub Power Company Limited
The National Bank of Pakistan
United Bank Limited
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