Associate
LLB Gold Medallist Farqaleet Khokhar is an Associate at the Islamabad offices of RIAA Barker Gillette. He assists the firm’s partner-in-charge, Barrister Yousaf Khosa, with a broad range of corporate/commercial regulatory and transactional matters, including M&A, competition, telecoms, and corporate law. He also assists in international and domestic arbitrations.
Farqaleet Khokhar has over 35 research publications in prestigious international journals and law reviews. A few of his publications are titled:
- When Do Directors’ Duties Shift to Protect Creditors’ Interests? – Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
- Directors’ Duties towards Climate-Related Risks? – Company Lawyer
- Drafting an Enforceable Arbitration Agreement: the Devil is in the Details – Asian Business Lawyer
- Book review: Arbitration Law of Pakistan, Ikram Ullah – Asian International Arbitration Journal
- Agreement to Arbitrate: towards Transnational Perspective – World Mediation and Arbitration Review
- Characterisation of Defamation, its defences, and quantification of damages: The Achilles’ Heel of Pakistani Law and English Law – Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (American Bar Association).
Education
Bahauddin Zakariya University, LLB (Honours), 2023 (Gold Medallist – CGPA 3.99/4) – Distinction in 53/56 Subjects.
Experience
- Research Associate – Arbitration & Contract Law (2022-23)
- Trainee Associate at RIAA Barker Gillette (2023)
- Junior Associate at RIAA Barker Gillette (2023)
- Associate at RIAA Barker Gillette (2024)
Languages
English and Urdu
Memberships
Punjab Bar Council
Practices
Publications
- When Do Directors’ Duties Shift to Protect Creditors’ Interests? Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (2024).
- Privity of Contract & Rights of Third Party: An Appraisal of Pakistani & English Courts’ Judgments on the Doctrine, 21 Policy Perspectives 127 (2024).
- Corporate Opportunity Doctrine: a Critical and Comparative Examination 23, Journal of International Business and Law (2024).
- Dilemma of the Interested Directors in Pakistan: Lessons from English Courts’ Jurisprudence, 44 Business Law Review (Wolters Kluwer) 150 (2023).
- Barton v Morris 2023 UKSC 3, 31 Asian Business Lawyer 105 (2023).
- Agreement to Arbitrate: towards Transnational Perspective – World Mediation and Arbitration Review (2024)
- Book review: Arbitration Law of Pakistan, Ikram Ullah, Wolters Kluwer, 19 Asian International Arbitration Journal (Singapore International Arbitration Centre: Kluwer) 153 (2023).
- Characterisation of Defamation, its defences, and quantification of damages: The Achilles’ Heel of the Pakistani Law and English Law, 57 Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, (American Bar Association) 823 (2022).
- Directors’ Duties towards Climate-Related Risks? – Company Lawyer
- Drafting an Enforceable Arbitration Agreement: the Devil is in the Details – Asian Business Lawyer
Recognition and awards
Gold Medalist (LLB Honours).
