Orr Dignam & Co

The banking and finance group at Orr Dignam & Co has a strong reputation in the Pakistani legal market. The team, led by Maudood Khan, Asim Nasim and Shahid Raza, deals with asset finance, export credit-backed finance, Islamic finance, project finance and securitisation. Clients span local and international banks, export credit agencies, multilateral institutions, Islamic banks and government agencies. Nasim and Raza acted for Citibank with a financing round by Coca-Cola Pakistan. They also advised Port Qasim Electric Power on a $1.55 billion project financing with a term loan from the Export-Import Bank of China. 

Maudood Khan, Aliya Yusuf and Asim Nasim head Orr Dignam & Co’s corporate and commercial practice. They are acting for Hewlett-Packard on its demerger and subsequent integration and incorporation of certain business divisions. The team is also advising Total PARCO Pakistan on its $120 million acquisition of Chevron Pakistan.

Sajid Zahid and Taha Alizai lead the highly regarded dispute resolution and litigation group at Orr Dignam & Co. The team manages contentious matters, such as arbitration and mediation, in a diverse range of industries. Zahid is advising Sui Southern Gas, which is Pakistan’s transmission and distribution gas utility in southern Pakistan, in litigation involving a liquefied natural gas project in the High Court and Supreme Court. Zahid and Alizai are defending private equity firm Abraaj Capital in a challenge from a political party to Abraaj’s earlier privatisation and subsequent acquisition of K-Electric, formerly Karachi Electric Supply Co.

Zahir Riaz, Aliya Yusuf, Asim Nasim and Shahid Raza head the highly regarded energy and natural resources group at Orr Dignam & Co, which regularly handles mandates across the upstream, midstream and downstream of Pakistani’s oil and gas sector. Since the beginning of Pakistan State Oil Co’s LNG project, Yusuf has been advising the company on a wide range of contracts.