MR LEGAL INN is a full service law Firm, which specializes in advising local and international businesses on all legal aspects of doing business in Pakistan. Our Firm provides a broad spectrum of premium quality legal advisory and dispute resolution services from Corporate, Commercial, Banking & Finance, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Mining, Power Projects Telecommunication, Shipping and Employment laws.
Our Firm works in close collaboration with clients who are major Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions, family business groups and high net worth individuals. Some of our representative clients include World Bank Group, Standard Chartered Bank, Qatar Petroleum, China National Heavy Machinery Corporation, US Denim Mills, Reuters, International Industries Limited, Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited, Johnson Controls, Boeing and Qatar Airways etc.
Furthermore, our Firm keenly focuses on the unique requirements of the business operating in the global markets where “one size fits all” advice does not work. Hence, our Firm ensures that its clients receive top quality legal solutions solving their issues, and contributing towards long term success while doing business in Pakistan.
Our Firm is recognized by leading global legal directories and elite firm networks including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Practical Law, Martindale & Hubbell etc. Our Firm is a preferred legal counsel of many leading international law firms as their valued legal partner. Our corporate and finance lawyers are extensively involved in advising clients on all stage commercial transactions.
Our Firm provides services in structuring and drafting joint venture agreements, commercial licenses, finance and lease agreements, securitization of loans, commercial certificates. In addition, we advise companies on foreign investments, project development, privatizations, strategic advisory, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, governmental affairs, private equity, project financing, mergers and acquisitions and corporate structuring etc.
Furthermore, our Firm maintains a strong dispute resolution practice for representing clients before the courts and international arbitral forums under New York Convention, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules for arbitrations conducted in New York, London, Paris, Dubai and Singapore.
The firm’s top-quality corporate practice covers the full range of local and cross-border transactions and investments. The firm advises companies on all aspects of corporate transactions including company incorporations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity acquisitions, capital markets, restructurings, privatizations, and taxation.
Our corporate practice team acts as legal advisors for multinational clients, family business groups, high net-worth individuals, and financial institutions involved in inbound and outbound investments, as well as major local clients investing overseas. While our dispute resolution team is heavily focused on representing companies in insolvencies and business restructurings.
The Firm provides a full range of commercial advice for its clients involved in commercial transactions including setting up agencies, franchises, distributorships, commercial sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, competition, intellectual property, and employment issues.
Our commercial practice team has advised local and international clients on the various stages of commercial transactions for setting up agencies, franchises, distributorships, and dealing mergers and has drafted joint venture agreements for doing business successfully in Pakistan. The dispute resolution team also represents the largest corporate concerns in the legal conflicts arising from commercial dealings between parties under various corporate structures.
The firm maintains a top-tier banking and insurance practice. It is regularly involved in major local and cross-border financing, has pioneered the use of new financial instruments and structures. The firm has market-leading experience in advising local and foreign banks, financial institutions, and financial advisory firms on structuring, negotiation, refinancing, and project finance. It also offers specialist advice on compliance with Shariah (Islamic) laws for banks and other financial institutions for the structuring of sukuk bonds and certificates.
Our finance practice team specializes in advising companies, major banks, and financial institutions in the project finance transactions for various public and private sector projects relating to Power, LPG, LNG, Oil and gas Exploration and Production Textiles, Pharmaceuticals, Automobile Industry, etc.
The Firm has a strong dispute resolution practice and represents banks and private individuals for debt recoveries, enforcement of collaterals, breaches of bank guarantees, and business restructurings.
The firm advises power generation companies utilizing natural resources such as hydro, coal, oil, gas, and solar for electricity generation projects in Pakistan. The firm extends its services to investments in Pakistan’s power sector, company incorporations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, competition, drafting and structuring of power purchase agreements, regulatory compliance, project financing, tariff determination, and licensing matters, negotiating project documents with the Government of Pakistan, power purchaser, fuel suppliers, contractors, and lenders, etc. The firm assists local and international sponsors and lenders of wind, coal, solar, thermal, and gas power projects, often working closely with international law firms on a wide variety of power projects in Pakistan. The dispute resolution team represents the power companies and government institutions before the tribunals, courts, and in arbitrations involving disputes evolving from the Power Purchase Agreements (the “PPA”) and tariff determination by the government bodies such as the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA).
The firm advises gas and oil companies on a wide variety of oil and gas projects in Pakistan. The firm retains an edge by keeping abreast of the latest developments in the energy, mining and oil and gas sectors. The firm has an intimate familiarity with the legal regime related to oil and gas exploration and production in Pakistan.
We advise on a wide range of upstream transactions and commercial agreements helping national and international oil companies and governments with acquisition and disposal agreements for upstream interests, including tax and investment treaty planning host government agreements, including production sharing and concession agreements, joint venture agreements, including joint operating, unitisation, area of mutual interest and joint bid/study agreements, engineering procurement and construction contracts, project finance agreements (including LNG project agreements)
We also advise on mid/downstream transactions and commercial agreements including acquisition and disposal agreements and joint ventures, long-term crude oil supply agreements and offtake agreements, transportation and processing agreements, common stream agreements, tie-in arrangements, condensate sales agreements and various lifting arrangements, fuel terminal joint operating agreements.
The core team includes exploration and production lawyers and lawyers from corporate, finance, dispute resolution, environmental, regulatory, antitrust, competition and trade, tax, employment, and intellectual property.
Our strong international network gives us the ability to respond quickly to your needs wherever and whenever you need us.
The Firm’s major practice involves advising the aviation industry and consumers on the liabilities of the carrier aircraft company for air traffic accidents. Furthermore, the Firm is strongly involved in the transactional practice for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, leases, and financing of aircraft by aviation companies. The Firm extends full support to the aviation companies in compliance with the registration requirements for obtaining certificates of airworthiness, personnel licenses, issues pertaining to aerodromes facilities and services, commercial air operations, unlawful interference, fares, freight, timetables, and miscellaneous issues.
The Firm maintains a top-notch practice in a high value Ports, Shipping & Maritime disputes involving admiralty Arrest and release of ships in admiralty actions, limitation actions, insurance actions, cargo claims, charter party disputes, oil pollution claims, crew litigation, collisions and other maritime casualties. On the non contentious side, the firm specializes in advising on the requirements pertaining to ship registration, registration of ship mortgage, ship sale and purchase, ship repair agreements, charter parties etc.
The Firm provides premium quality advice to local and international companies on all aspects of intellectual property laws. The Firm advises companies on the requirements for patents, design, and trade mark registration and provides legal opinions on the patentability and enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Firm also undertakes transactional work relating to structuring, co-branding, and rebranding agreements.
Our dispute resolution team represents clients over lawsuits for the breaches of copyrights in patents, designs, and trademarks of major company brands. Our dispute resolution team has consistently secured victories for well-reputed international brands.
International and well-reputed brands are facing ever-increasing copyright infringement by small and mid-level competitors in the region. We are well known for helping clients with the copyright protection challenges they must overcome to succeed in the digital world.
We advise an array of business sectors – from clothing designers, fine watchmakers, media and entertainment creators, and broadcasters to software and database providers – on how to protect creative works effectively.
We advise major companies on national and international copyright exploitation and protection projects, as well as rights clearance. Our dispute resolution team represents clients over lawsuits for the breaches of copyrights in patents, designs, and trademarks of major company brands. Our dispute resolution team has consistently secured victories for well-reputed international brands.
Mobile offerings and spectrum have been at the heart of your sector for a decade. Our telecoms group has cutting-edge experience of your industry and we’re best placed to help you succeed. We work with many of the industry’s key players, including fixed and mobile network operators, wireless broadband and local loop operators, MVNOs, and service providers.
We deliberate on the sector’s best-known deals, from demergers to IPOs to restructurings, in developed as well as in new markets.
Alongside our transactional strengths, we have extensive practices in the commercial, antitrust, regulatory, financial, and IP aspects of the telecom sector. We have specialist partners with years of experience dealing with pricing and privacy issues and regulatory matters, to name but a few.
The Firm’s expertise extends to employment issues, which the Companies and private businesses facing on day-to-day basis. We frequently advise on the structuring and enforceability of employment contracts and remedies available for breach of such contracts.
The firm handles the full range of commercial and residential services. Our experts can assist with all types of investments, divestitures and ongoing matters. Our commercial practice advises on investment properties, offices, developments, retail property, landlord & tenant issues, and leaseholds and enfranchisement. Our expertise in Pakistan includes a range of construction projects in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors.
Our residential property practice offers all types and sizes of clients up-to-date assistance with all aspects of their property portfolios, including conveyancing, investment structuring, and a range of disputes, including those related to landlords and tenants, leases, boundaries, and party walls.
The firm offers leading roles for in and out-of-court settlements. It represents leading multinational and local corporates in proceedings before the domestic courts and at the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris, and forums in Brussels, Singapore, and Sydney. It covers a range of sectors, including construction, energy, insurance, and telecommunications.
Senior Partner
BARRISTER MOBEEN RANA
Mobeen Rana’s practice concentrates on corporate, commercial, banking and finance, petroleum and energy, intellectual property, shipping and maritime, real estate, and telecommunication laws. He regularly advises and represents clients on complex high-value commercial transactions.
He has advised some of the largest multi-national corporations including World Bank Group, Qatar Petroleum, Jamshoru Joint Venture Limited, Reuters, Johnson Controls, International Industries, US Denim Mills, IGI Insurance, Standard Chartered Bank, China National Heavy Machinery Corporation etc.
He worked with the World Bank Group based in Washington DC, USA for their Doing Business Project in Pakistan and other leading law firms. He is a member of the Bar of England & Wales, American Bar Association, American Society of International Law, Punjab Bar Council, and Lahore High Court Bar Association. He is also a Member Conference Committee of London Liberal Democrats. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Talent Scholarship awarded by the Government of Pakistan.
Mobeen Rana is a Barrister-at-Law of Lincolns Inn, London, and law graduate with an LL.B (Hons) from the University of London. He later earned his postgraduate qualification in law PGDL from City University London.
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