Projects and infrastructure

We have long dominated the projects and project finance markets in Pakistan, handling most of the country’s major deals and projects in this space while maintaining a regional practice involving Middle East projects. We handle all aspects of local and cross-border project financing and have extensive experience based on our involvement in some of the region’s landmark projects. We advise sponsors, developers and lenders of projects in various sectors, including construction, energy, power, mining, transport, logistics and infrastructure. We handle a range of bank and capital market financings and projects that combine different forms of complex financing models.

We were involved in drafting Pakistan’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority Ordinance 2002 and the regulatory framework for the oil and gas sector. We advise on bidding processes, performance of contracts, project finance, contractual claims, and projects-related disputes. Our expertise encompasses the full range of projects in the construction, oil and gas, power, mining and infrastructure sectors.

Our team members have negotiated and drafted documentation relating to IPPs, cross-border pipeline and transmission line projects, refineries, airports, ports, hospitals, elevated expressways and motorways, telecom projects, LNG/LPG projects and railway projects.

We closely scrutinise the relevant documentation, including checklists relating to the conditions precedent, to be satisfied under the financing arrangements (including LCs, constitutional documentation, board and shareholder resolutions, certificates and letters). We work with our affiliated firm, RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) LLP, to arrange requisite English law legal opinions.

Contact one of our lead projects and infrastructure partners, Hasnain Naqvee, Bilal Shaukat or Nadir Altaf, today.