RIAA BARKER GILLETTE
Lawyers
Ahsan Zahir Rizvi
- Phone+92 21 111 529 937
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance
Position
Senior and Managing Partner
Top-ranked by leading legal directories, Ahsan Zahir Rizvi is the Global Senior and Managing Partner of RIAA Barker Gillette. He is globally recognized as a leading international corporate lawyer. He has extensive experience in all aspects of corporate and commercial legal matters including contract negotiations, strategic planning, commercial arrangements, banking and finance, corporate and financial restructuring, privatizations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and project finance. He has particular expertise in complex cross-border transactions in the energy, infrastructure and telecommunications sectors. He has undertaken high-stakes dispute resolution work in London, Brussels, Singapore and Pakistan.
Career
Senior and Managing Partner at RIAA Barker Gillette: 1989 to datePractised as Ahsan Zahir Rizvi & Co 1985 to 1989Associate at Khalid M Ishaque & Co 1981 to 1985
Previous Positions: Director, Karachi Stock ExchangeChairman, Committee on Cyber LawsProfessor at SM Law College KarachiLecturer at Ziauddin University, Aga Khan University & University of Virginia
Languages
English, Urdu and Arabic.
Memberships
Member of the honorable society of Lincoln’s InnMember of Sind High Court Bar Association Member of Karachi Bar Association
Education
London School of Economics and Political Science (LLB Hons 1979)Lincoln’s Inn (bar-at-law 1980)London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM Lon 1981)University of Virginia (MA 2005; PhD 2007).
Leisure
Enjoys bridge, squash, golf and motor biking in his leisure time.