Announcement - New member of The Lawyer Network in Pakistan

Mr. Khan, a lawyer cum management consultant (trade policy expert), has more than fifteen years of practical experience in the areas of international trade advisory, accounting and finance, internal and external financial & management audits, taxation and management consultancy. He has acquired specialized knowledge in WTO Laws, which includes Agreement on Antidumping, Agreement on Subsidies & Countervailing Measures, Agreement on Safeguards, General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and TRIPS. He has been assisting concerned government agencies in drafting of trade defense laws and rules. He also gained expertise in practice of Anti-trust and Competition law. His unique combination of qualification & experience has helped him in understanding the technical as well as legal aspects of antidumping and other international trade laws. He has the capability of making complex dumping margin calculations as well as injury analysis because of having a professional accounting qualification & experience. Additionally, being a lawyer, he is capable of interpreting the law in the most proficient way best suited to his clients’ interest and presenting convincing legal arguments during the proceedings in the areas of Corporate law, Business Advisory, Transaction Planning, WTO Laws, Competition Law, Intellectual Property Laws, International Investment Agreement, Arbitration, Regulatory Compliance and Taxation, before the relevant authorities and the appellate forums. Mr. Khan has acquired extensive experience of dealing with trade defense laws and procedures in Pakistan and abroad. He has been engaged in more than 75% of the antidumping investigations initiated by the Pakistani Antidumping Authority (i.e. National Tariff Commission, Ministry of Commerce – Pakistan) till date. He has been providing antidumping consultancy services to the domestic industry in Pakistan, working for them as a petitioner (representing them throughout the investigation till the imposition of final antidumping duties). He has represented a large number of foreign producers / exporters in various antidumping invesitgations. Worked as member of Ministry of Commerce team for the revision of Trade Defence Laws in Pakistan in the Year 2014. All three previous legislations (Antidumping Duties Ordinance 2000, Countervailing Duties Ordinance 2001 and Safeguard Measures 2002) were revised after critical review keeping in view issues faced in implementation of these laws during more than 10 years of their promulgation. New laws are in place now namely; Antidumping Duties Act 2015, Countervailing Duties Act 2015 and Safeguard Measures Amendment Act 2015. While working with the international trade lawyers/consultants in various countries (including Belgium, India, Canada, Turkey, Indonesia, China, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, USA etc.) in different antidumping and other assignments; he has gained a sound knowledge and understanding of antidumping regulations of different countries and the practices being followed by their antidumping authorities. He has been advising his international clients on various trade agreements of the WTO including Agreement on Antidumping, Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Agreement on Safeguard, TRIPS, etc. Mr. Khan has been providing international business advisory services to a number of domestic & foreign clients. Mr. Khan has been representing his clients before the Appellate forum in antidumping investigations. He has argued very effectively his clients’ cases before the Antidumping Appellate Tribunal and has been successful in most of the cases. In the areas of Antitrust & Competition (merger & acquisition, cartels & restrictive agreements, monopolies and abuse of dominant positions), he has been providing advisory services to clients and suggesting ways and means to comply with the relevant legal provisions of the prevalent law (Competition Act 2010), protecting their interests through invoking the provisions of the law and pleading their cases before the Competition Commission of Pakistan to avoid any likely adverse action against his clients. Mr. Khan has also provided advisory services to clients regarding GATS and TRIPS agreement of the WTO. He is well versed with the preferential and free trade agreements of Pakistan with other countries and has been advising national and international clients on FTAs and PTAs of Pakistan with other countries. Keeping in view the ever changing global business environment, he has been advising clients on the development of International Trade Management System, International Trade Agreement Advisory, Foreign Trade Development services and issues relating to para-tariff & non-tariff barriers with the aim to facilitate exports from Pakistan and protecting the same from any potential trade defense measure from other countries.