Zahra Abid has been a Partner since 2015. Her areas of expertise include mergers & acquisitions, banking & finance, private equity and venture capital, payment systems and fintech, capital markets, securitization, and regulatory advisory. She specializes in advising clients in the private equity and venture capital and payments space and her clients include some of the leading foreign and local private equity and venture capital funds, payment companies and start-ups. With an eye to contributing to the wider legal community, Zahra has provided valuable advice to Governments and financial sector regulators, including the State Bank of Pakistan and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, on significant legislative and regulatory reforms in the financial sector.

With a diverse market understanding on an assortment of legal practice areas and industries, Zahra’s ability to identify, analyse and tactfully articulate legal and regulatory issues proves invaluable for rendering complicated legal opinions or comprehensive yet practical structuring advice on transactions. She has been ranked as one of the top corporate lawyers by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for banking & finance, corporate and M&A.

Chambers and Partners have quoted clients, who describe her as “sound and dedicated” and comment that she “takes initiative in understanding the various transactional aspects and is quick to provide comprehensive legal guidance accordingly“.

According to Legal 500 a client mentions, “Zahra keeps the client’s interests front and centre. She is pro-active and identifies any potential regulatory issues early on in the process”.