JA Legal is founded by Barrister Junaid Ahmed who also serves as the Head of Chambers. The firm is recognised for its dynamic and client focused approach and it thrives on taking an initiative based approach towards safeguarding the interests of its clients.
The firm provides range of legal services including, but not limited to, legal advise, dispute-resolution services from civil to criminal law, drafting/reviewing contracts, registration of IP and companies.
JA Legal areas of expertise includes: Constitutional law, Company law, Civil, Tax, Custom, Intellectual Property Law, Anti-Dumping Law, Family Law White Collar Crime(NAB/FIA) ,Employment and service laws.
JA Legal’s mission is to help its clients by rendering premium legal service in both contentious and non-contentious matters.
JA Legal is one of the leading corporate and commercial law firms of Pakistan, we have a bulk of corporate law matters to service on a daily basis. Several local and international clients wish to seek legal advice on the feasibility of incorporating a company in Pakistan and the subsequent formalities, solicit our service.
It is important to understand that Corporate law is a large area of legal practice, with far-reaching repercussions to the Company and its Directors, Shareholders, Auditors, and even employees. Thus, all the documentation including the articles of association, memorandum of association, shareholder agreement should be well drafted and must incorporate the real intention of all parties in order to mitigate the future dispute.
Our team work with corporations to make sure all of their transactions are legal by providing advice on their rights and obligations. Essentially, we work to make sure corporations are making decisions that provide the most benefit while remaining legal.
Being one of the leading Corporate and Commercial law firms, we provide to our client’s written legal opinions on various legal issues, and draft as well as review contracts/agreements which enable our clients to manage their business free of legal wrinkles.
In the past few years, our team of lawyers have successfully represented various companies and individual shareholders in a variety of legal disputes before the SECP, SECP Appellate Tribunal (Islamabad), and High Courts, and were successful in obtaining the requisite reliefs/remedies from the competent authorities as well as out of court by entering into amicable settlement through mediation and negotiation.
Retainers:
Apart from advising and representing on contentious company law matters before the Courts, we also offer “tailor-made retainers” that may better suit your company. In retainer arrangement, our firm is engaged on a monthly fixed amount. These are provided at efficient costs and dealt with by senior lawyers. To read more about our retainers, please click here.
Business Startup Services:
Many of our clients find our Business Startup package most feasible for their needs. This includes:
Real Estate and Property Law often is one of the most high-value subject areas for legal pursuit. They are also emotionally sensitive areas because we know that any matter related to property is important to the client, usually, since many times, a client’s life savings have gone into obtaining the property. Further, they are mostly embroiled in tedious litigation or the possibility of litigation. We are one of the leading property lawyers in Karachi with a strong and proven track record of handling sensitive and high-profile cases. It is important to highlight that in the past few years, we have successfully able to obtain big reliefs from both High Courts and District Courts including the Rent Controllers. The reliefs include but not limited to eviction, rent recovery, the dispute in ownership, transfer of ownership in legal heirs after the death of the owner(s), partition, and other ancillary reliefs including stay-order/injunctions on properties.
Moreover, especially in Pakistan, there is illicit practice whereby the rights of the lawful legal heirs are suppressed by few individuals by executing fraudulent documents in a form of a gift deed in order to make a transaction look legal which in essence is an unlawful activity. The Courts on numerous occasions have granted reliefs to litigants provided their case especially at the evidence and final argument stage is effectively proceeded and proper assistance is provided to the court/judges. Thus, it is extremely important that your lawyer is competently handling the case from the start so that the ‘Justice’ can be done by the Court.
Some of the services and advice that we offer to our clients are built over many years of working with key personnel in the property spheres of Pakistan. Being one of the leading property laws in Karachi, we work with property developers, public and private owners, investors, contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, and lenders which incidentally also are our clients.
Rent and Eviction:
One key note in this area is that all cases of rent and eviction are heard before the district court/Rent Controller, no matter the value of the property. At JA Legal, we make sure that these cases are treated with the same care we would a case of a superior court. We know that your property is sacrosanct to you, and no corners can be cut in order in obtaining relief.
Intellectual Property (IP) refers to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law. Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are the protections granted to the creators of IP and include Trademarks, Copyright, Patents, Industrial Design Rights, and even trade secrets. Artistic works including music and literature, as well as discoveries, inventions, words, phrases, symbols, and designs, can all be protected as intellectual property. IP protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without the protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not reap the full benefits of their inventions and would focus less on research and development. Similarly, artists would not be fully compensated for their creations and cultural vitality would suffer as a result. Infringement of intellectual property is a greater and more legitimate danger in today’s climate where scammers and imposters are lurking behind computer screens. Luckily, there are strong legal remedies available to mitigate this damage, and being of the leading intellectual Property lawyers we have obtained various reliefs from the Courts in the shape of stay-orders/injections, damages, and even revocation of the IP. We’ve successfully represented our clients before the Intellectual Property Tribunal (IPT) as well as before the High Courts in various IP matters.
It is important to highlight that the main purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage the creation of a wide variety of intellectual goods for consumers. To achieve this, the law gives people and businesses property rights to the information and intellectual goods they create, usually for a limited period of time. Because they can then profit from them, this gives an economic incentive for their creation. The intangible nature of intellectual property presents difficulties when compared with traditional property like land or goods. Unlike traditional property, intellectual property is indivisible – an unlimited number of people can “consume” an intellectual good without it being depleted.
Being one of the leading intellectual Property law firms of Pakistan, we offer various services in the field of Intellectual Property including but not limited to:-
– Trademark Dispute Resolution
– Trademark Registration & Protection
– Copyright Dispute Resolution
– Copyright Registration & Protection
– Brand Protection
– Licensing Agreements of Trademarks/Copyright etc
– Patent Litigation
– Unfair Competition Litigation
