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About Nishtar & Zafar
Who We Are

About Nishtar & Zafar

A premier business law firm in Pakistan delivering customized legal solutions with international standards and local expertise

Our team
25+ Years

Excellence in Business Law Since 1998

Nishtar & Zafar is a business and commercial law firm with a proud reputation of delivering customized business-friendly legal and management solutions. Our professionals cover a broad spectrum of legal, business, and policy consulting assignments.

We proudly present our professionals, most of whom are trained at the world's top academic and professional institutions such as Harvard, Lincoln's Inn, University of London, and Australian National University.

Our Approach

We assist our clients in transacting their business swiftly, in the most efficient possible manner and with total compliance to legal, policy, and institutional parameters.

25+
Years Experience
500+
Cases Won
100+
Corporate Clients
15+
Expert Lawyers
key steps

Our Valued Clients

A representative list of our clients most of which have continuous professional relationship with us on retainer basis includes the following. Of these Engro Group companies, Pak Libya Holding, Dawood Family Takaful Company and Bolan Castings are with us on monthly retainer for over a decade.

Identify the current state of the salesforce at each company, including headcount, organization structure, products sold, territories and customers covered, and compensation design.

Design the future-state salesforce and analytically pressure-test the resulting changes to the customers, territories, and products covered to ensure a smooth transition.

Launch and manage an implementation program in the first year to deliver synergies on an ambitious timeline. This includes migrating to a new organizational structure and a new set of roles and responsibilities, communicating clearly to key stakeholders and identifying quick wins.

1950

The Begining

  • Engro Corporation Limited
  • Engro Fertilizers Limited
  • Engro Vopak Terminals Limited
  • Engro Qadirpur Powergen Limited
  • Elengy Limited (An Engro Company in gas energy business
  • Duyes Construction, (subsidiary of Duyes Insaat, Turkey)
  • Pakistan Refinery Limited
  • Pak Libya Holding Company (Pvt) Limited
  • Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Limited
  • PIA
  • Engro PolyEmer & Chemicals Limited
  • House Building Finance Corpc
  • Bolan Castings Limited
  • Philip Morris International
  • Takaful Pakistan Limited
  • Dawood Family Takaful Limited
  • Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan
  • BRR Modarba
  • First Paramount Modaraba
  • Engro Eximp (Pvt) Limited
  • AMZO LLC USA (Munda Hydro Power Project)
Public Sector

Acquisition

  • British Council (Legislative Advisory Capacity Building)
  • Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization, Peshawar
  • Board of Investment, Govt. of Pakistan, Islamabad
  • Trading Corporation of Pakistan
  • Port Qasim Authority
  • Government of Sindh (Finance, Revenue and Livestock & Fisheries Depts)
  • Government of Punjab (Finance and Livestock Depts)
  • City District Government, Karachi
  • Karachi Water & Sewerage Board, Karachi
2014

Partnership

  • Duyes Insaat, Turkey (Turkish multinational working in 6 countries)
  • Shandong Hi-Speed Group, China
  • China East Resources Import and Export Corporation, China
  • China Ocean Engineering Construction Bureau, China
  • Global Energy (Pvt) Limited (A Chinese subsidiary)
  • AMZO LLC, Maryland, USA
  • Tax Analysts, Inc., Virginia, USA
  • Jones Day, NY, USA