Junior Associate
Farqaleet Khokhar, a Gold Medalist, is a Junior Associate and joined the Islamabad office of RIAA Barker Gillette. He assists the firm’s partners and senior associates on a broad range of corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, and trade law matters.
Farqaleet has more than 30 research publications in the areas of corporate, contract, arbitration, and tort law, as well as in prestigious international and domestic journals and law reviews. A few of his publications are titled as:
- “When Do Directors’ Duties Shift to Protect Creditors’ Interests?” – Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
- “Dilemma of the Interested Directors in Pakistan: Lessons from English Courts’ Jurisprudence” – Business Law Review.
- “Characterisation of Defamation, its defences, and quantification of damages: The Achilles’ Heel of the Pakistani Law and English Law” – Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, (American Bar Association).
- “Book review: Arbitration Law of Pakistan, Ikram Ullah” – Asian International Arbitration Journal.
Education
Bahauddin Zakariya University, LLB (Honours), 2023 (Gold Medalist – CGPA 3.99/4) – Distinction in 53/56 Subjects.
Experience
- Trainee Associate at RIAA Barker Gillette (2023)
- Legal Intern at Zakariya Law Chamber (2022)
- Research Associate – Arbitration & Contract Law (2022-23)
- Teaching Assistant – Corporate Law (2022)
- Teaching Assistant – Contract Law (2021)
Languages
English, Urdu and Saraiki
Memberships
Punjab Bar Council
Practices
- Corporate
- Commercial
- Dispute Resolution
- Trade Law (Including developmental projects)
Publications
- When Do Directors’ Duties Shift to Protect Creditors’ Interests? 48 Delaware Journal of Corporate 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).
- Corporate Opportunity Doctrine: a Critical and Comparative Examination 23, Journal of International Business and Law (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).
Recognition and awards
- Gold Medalist (LLB Honours).
- BZU – First Position Holder Scholarship (Awarded 10 times).
- United Bank Limited Merit Scholarship (Highest Grades Achiever Award).
- Pakistan Educational Endowment Fund, Merit Scholarship – 2015 & 2018 (Awarded 2 times).