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Ahsan Zahir Rizvi

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. · RIAA BARKER GILLETTE

PakistanCorporate / M&A, Banking & FinanceEnglish, Urdu, Arabic

About

Ahsan Zahir Rizvi is the Global Senior and Managing Partner of RIAA Barker Gillette and is recognised as a leading international corporate lawyer. He advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters—including M&A, banking and finance, restructuring, privatizations and project finance—with particular expertise in complex cross-border transactions in the energy, infrastructure and telecommunications sectors and has undertaken high‑stakes dispute resolution work in London, Brussels, Singapore and Pakistan.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&ABanking & FinanceProject FinanceRestructuring & InsolvencyInternational ArbitrationLitigation

Office

Expertise

EnergyInfrastructureTelecommunicationsCross-Border TransactionsPrivatizationsIslamic FinanceContract Negotiation

Education

  • LLB (Hons), London School of Economics and Political Science, 1979
  • Bar-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, 1980
  • LLM, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1981
  • MA, University of Virginia, 2005
  • PhD, University of Virginia, 2007

Admissions

  • Lincoln's Inn (Bar-at-Law, 1980)
  • Sind High Court Bar Association (Member)
  • Karachi Bar Association (Member)

Languages

EnglishUrduArabic