RIAA BARKER GILLETTE

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance

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.

Senior and Managing Partner at RIAA Barker Gillette: 1989 to date
Practised as Ahsan Zahir Rizvi & Co 1985 to 1989
Associate at Khalid M Ishaque & Co 1981 to 1985

Previous Positions:
Director, Karachi Stock Exchange
Chairman, Committee on Cyber Laws
Professor at SM Law College Karachi
Lecturer at Ziauddin University, Aga Khan University & University of Virginia

English, Urdu and Arabic

Member of the honorable society of Lincoln’s Inn
Member of Sind High Court Bar Association 
Member of Karachi Bar Association

London School of Economics and Political Science (LLB Hons 1979)
Lincoln’s Inn (bar-at-law 1980)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM Lon 1981)
University of Virginia (MA 2005; PhD 2007).

Enjoys bridge, squash, golf and motor biking in his leisure time.