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RIAA Barker Gillette Pakistan

At RIAA Barker Gillette Pakistan, we believe every client is unique and tailor our services to meet your needs. Simply stated, our objective is to look after your best interests in the most efficient manner. While working with you, we shoulder the burden, taking a step back to take stock of the bigger picture and the effect it might have, freeing you to focus on what is truly important.

Easily accessible and based in the heart of Pakistan’s major cities: Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar, we specialise in corporate, commercial and dispute resolution law. We provide clients with a broad spectrum of premium legal advisory services, including private and public corporations, financial institutions and family business groups.

With substantial on-the-ground capability and over 35 years of history globally, RIAA Barker Gillette has become an alliance of law firms you can rely on with total confidence. Our team of professionals is well-versed in advising domestic and multinational clients and has extensive experience in complex, cross-border work.

We have benefited from global expansion, allowing us to improve and increase our client services. We have fought hard to retain our approachable and collegiate feel and pride ourselves on the expertise, accessibility and flair of our partners, all of which make us who we are today. We are committed to providing the highest standards of legal services and offering a commercial perspective designed to help our clients reach their business goals.

Recognition and awards

RIAA Barker Gillette is an alliance of leading international, industry-focused law firms. Major international legal directories consistently recognise us as a Band 1 and Tier 1 law firm.

Pakistan offices

Karachi
    • RIAA Barker Gillette Karachi Office

    • RIAA Barker Gillette Chambers
    • D-67/1, Block 4, Clifton
    • Karachi 75600
    • Pakistan

Tel: +92 (21) 35836308

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Islamabad
  • RIAA Barker Gillette Islamabad Office

  • RIAA Barker Gillette Chambers
  • 3rd Floor, 65-W, Executive Heights
  • Block-H, Fazal-e-Haq Road
  • Blue Area, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Tel: +92 (51) 2806321-2

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Lahore
  • RIAA Barker Gillette Lahore Office

  • RIAA Barker Gillette Chambers
  • Office # 2, 8th Floor
  • Askari Corporate Tower
  • Main Boulevard, Gulberg
  • Lahore, Pakistan
  • Tel: +92 (42) 37881402-4

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Peshawar
  • RIAA Barker Gillette Peshawar Office

  • RIAA Barker Gillette Chambers
  • 306-C, City Towers
  • University Road
  • Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Tel: +92 (91) 5844192

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What clients say...

  • Chambers Asia Pacific 2022
    "RIAA are responsive, professional and polite in explaining their advice, well researched in their opinions, and reliable in their response time… they also share commercial and operational consequences of the options presented in their advice. We are very happy with their support…." - Chambers Asia Pacific 2022

  • The Legal 500 2022
    “RIAA has an excellent litigation practice that advises on the full range of contentious issues as well as international arbitrations. The practice regularly handles all forms of civil, commercial, corporate, regulatory and white-collar crime matters before all the courts in Pakistan. It has extensive experience in a diverse range of industry sectors …” – The Legal 500 2022

  • Chambers Asia Pacific 2022
    "We find them to be extremely professional and responsive. They are meticulous in raising all the right legal points but at the same time are very solution-oriented in helping to structure the transactions in the right way to fully protect our legal rights." – Chambers Asia Pacific 2022

  • The Legal 500 2022
    “The team has an excellent track record of working on some of the most significant projects in Pakistan throughout the years.” – The Legal 500 2022 

  • Legal 500 2021
    We have worked with RIAA Barker Gillette for many years on a number of matters, including regulatory issues, labor, general corporate, competition law, and tax matters…..We have found high-quality lawyers across disciplines, who are able to balance the requirement for technically sound advice while also being practical and solution-orientated - Legal 500 2021

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