Shabbir Harianawala is a specialist M&A lawyer with a focus on complex private and public M&A in the telecom, oil & gas (upstream and downstream), banking and pharmaceutical sectors.

Shabbir is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading M&A lawyers and has advised on many of Pakistan’s landmark M&A transactions. Shabbir is routinely sought by clients to advise on public and private acquisitions, carve-outs, consortium deals, private equity and joint venture transactions and is well versed with complex shareholder arrangements, corporate re-organisations, foreign exchange & takeover laws, corporate governance, payment systems and general disclosures and compliances concerning listed companies.

As Pakistan has a robust and well-developed regulatory regime, Shabbir is also routinely engaged to advise on various regulatory issues involving the Competition Commission of Pakistan, the State Bank of Pakistan, the Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan, and other sector-specific regulatory authorities.

Shabbir is consistently ranked as a top-tier Corporate/M&A practitioner by peer review organizations, including Chambers Global; Chambers Asia-Pacific; and The Legal 500.