Owais is a Partner specializing in Public Private Partnerships, cross-border M&A, Projects, Project Finance, Privatisations and Corporate/Commercial matters and across a wide range of industries and sectors. He regularly advises leading multinational corporations, national and international financial institutions including DFIs and multilateral agencies, sponsors and governmental authorities on complex and high-value cross-border matters including structuring first-of-a-kind transactions.

With 15 years of experience and well known for the time and attention he devotes to transactions and his practical approach, Owais is recognized by the market as a leading transactional lawyer.

According to Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific, Owais Aziz “is endorsed by clients for his thorough knowledge of the law and his friendly and methodical approach” and is described as someone who “handles transactions very well and is commercially sound”, is “very professional and knowledgeable” and “is pragmatic to meet his clients’ needs”.

According to sources cited in Chambers and Partners Global, Owais is praised for “his solid expertise and good work”.

According to Legal 500, “Haidermota & Co. is a known name for its work on major project financings under the direction of Umar Shereef and Owais Aziz.”

Sources cited in Legal 500 state “The resident partner of the Islamabad office Owais Aziz is extremely talented and committed to his work. He has a very good understanding of commercial issues and has out of the box solutions for complex matters. He is definitely someone who can be labelled as a go-to person for commercial deals.”

Owais completed his Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a member of the New York Bar, a member of the United States Patent & Trademark Office Bar and is an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan.