Practice Area

Commercial Litigation

We prosecute and defend commercial claims — contract, shareholder, banking, and recovery disputes — for companies, lenders, and their owners, from the civil courts to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. We fight the disputes our corporate practice teaches us to see coming.

Delay is the defining weapon of civil litigation in Pakistan, and every strategy must price it in. For a plaintiff, that means front-loading the case: a complete plaint, documents filed with it, and interim relief sought on day one, because the injunction hearing is often the only hearing that changes anyone's behavior for years. For a defendant, it means knowing which fights to have early — jurisdiction, limitation, arbitration clauses, non-suit points — and which to hold for trial.

We write for two readers at once: the judge deciding the application and the appellate bench that will read the same file later. Pleadings are short, documents are proved properly the first time, and every order we invite is drafted so it can survive scrutiny above. Where the dispute belongs somewhere else — before an arbitrator, a banking court, the company bench, or a regulator — we say so at the start, because a decree from the wrong forum is a liability dressed as a win.

Pecuniary and territorial jurisdiction, court fees, and the allocation of commercial work within the courts vary by province and change by amendment; the positions described here are stated as of mid-2026 and are confirmed before any filing.

How We Serve

We sue and defend on contracts — supply, distribution, agency, construction — in the civil courts and, where the value of the claim allows, on the original side of the High Court of Sindh. Pleadings are drafted to the elements: what was promised, what was breached, and what it cost.

Most commercial cases are decided in substance at the interim stage. We move and resist applications for injunctions under Order XXXIX of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908, attachment before judgment under Order XXXVIII, and the appointment of receivers — and we prepare the interim hearing as the trial it usually turns out to be.

We act in oppression and mismanagement proceedings, winding-up petitions, and challenges to board and shareholder action under the Companies Act 2017, before the company benches of the High Courts. Disputes over share transfers, registers of members, and directors' duties sit in the same practice.

We appear in the banking courts under the Financial Institutions (Recovery of Finances) Ordinance 2001 — for financial institutions pursuing recovery, and for customers seeking leave to defend. The leave application is where these cases are won or lost, and we write it as the trial document it is.

We conduct first appeals and revisions in the High Courts, and petitions for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan under Article 185(3) of the Constitution. Appellate work is a different craft from trial work: the record is closed, and the argument must live within it — which is why we build the record at trial with the appeal already in mind.

A decree is not money. We run execution proceedings — attachment and sale of property, garnishee orders, and proceedings against judgment-debtors — because the case is not over until the client is paid.

Representative Matters

20—Acted for a developer in a PKR —bn construction dispute; settled on confidential terms after interim relief.Litigation
20—Enforced a foreign arbitral award in Pakistan under the 2011 Act.Arbitration
20—Obtained an anti-suit injunction protecting an exclusive-jurisdiction clause.Litigation
20—Acted in a shareholder-oppression petition under the Companies Act 2017; resolved by court-supervised buyout.Corporate Disputes
20—Represented an employer in Pakistan's first — ruling on non-compete enforceability in the tech sector.Employment