Financial institutions form the core of HAPLA’s client base and throughout our firm’s history we have brought together lawyers with specialist legal expertise and deep industry knowledge from across all our practice areas and offices to assist in delivering industry leading solutions for this sector.

With partners who focus exclusively on financial institutions transactions in both our Karachi and Lahore offices, we are well placed to advise on complex deals that often involve more than one jurisdiction.

Buffeted by a vast and growing regulatory reform agenda, volatile financial markets and adverse economic environment, financial institutions face considerable strategic challenges as they seek to navigate a path to achieving the returns expected by their shareholders. Our teams are working with our financial institution clients across Pakistan to help them anticipate and prepare for change across the full scope of their businesses, both in terms of their own organizations and in terms of the products they offer their customers.

Dedicated groups focus on key issues for banks, mutual funds, venture capital and private equity funds, insurers, asset managers and stock exchanges, supported by specialists regularly working with global investment bodies and brokerage houses.