Yousaf Khosa

Yousaf Khosa is based in Islamabad and is recognised as one of the leading corporate lawyers in Pakistan, and possesses significant corporate and litigation expertise.

He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and leads the litigation team in Islamabad. His sector specialisms include construction, oil and gas, and telecommunications.

He has acted as counsel in more than 700 litigation matters in various courts of Pakistan, in addition to quasi-judicial and regulatory tribunals. He is also well regarded for his record of success in domestic and international arbitration proceedings (under ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, Pakistan Engineering Council and Pakistan Arbitration Act rules).

Yousaf possesses extensive construction expertise, having dealt with all kinds of local and international forms of construction contracts. He has also been extensively involved in Pakistan’s petroleum and mining sectors, providing legal services to our petroleum and mining clients. He has also been part of several teams involved in drafting some of the significant petroleum laws of Pakistan.

Yousaf has extensive experience advising clients on capital markets, corporate law, and mergers and acquisitions. He is particularly proficient in deals involving the setting up, acquisition and sale of businesses in Pakistan.

Yousaf also advises on joint ventures, corporate restructuring, regulatory and general corporate matters. He has advised on telecoms laws in Pakistan and Afghanistan as legal advisor and litigation counsel.