Maliha Sarda Azam

Ms. Azam is an Advocate of High Courts and Legal Consultant for various corporate clients. She also served as a member of the legal department of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) during 2007. Prior to joining the SECP, she was in private practice since 1997 with Raja Muhammad Akram & Co., a prestigious corporate litigation law, headed by Mr. Salman Akram Raja. Her extensive practice covered all aspects of banking, commercial and corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions. She is also experienced in conducting international commercial arbitrations in Europe and United States as well as Pakistan including Construction Arbitration. She has represented several Chinese companies before the National Tariff Commission as regards the levy of anti-dumping duty. Since 2008, she served as chief legal counsel to one of the largest multinational business houses in the country and has conducted several high profile mergers and takeovers inside Pakistan as well as in Europe. She has vast experience of domestic and international corporate and financial transactions and contracts, including joint ventures and sale supply, franchising etc. She holds LL.M in International Business Law from University College London, University of London where she read for her masters as a Chevening Scholar.