Tariq Mahmood > 33 Bedford Row > London, England > Barrister Profile

Tariq Mahmood

Work Department

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Arbitration
• Civil
• Commercial
• Commercial Chancery
• Company & Partnership
• Construction
• Contract
• Immigration & Nationality
• Mediation
• Property
• Property Co-Ownership

Position

Dr Mahmood has a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice covering a wide range of contractual, property and public law disputes.  His work includes a particular emphasis on company, insolvency and property matters, as well as complex commercial disputes generally.

Career

Tariq’s commercial experience involves all areas of commercial litigation with a specific interest in partnership and company disputes. He provides opinions and drafts pleadings, gives advice on disclosure and represents clients at mediation, in tribunals and in court. He regularly advises clients on interim applications including applications for summary judgment and injunctions. He is fully aware of the tactical advantages of early intervention and his advice is always commercially sensitive and solution-oriented.

Tariq is currently involved in a complex on-going dispute in the Bahamas to advise a client in respect to a £250 million dispute. He was recently instructed in a complex partnership and property case with a value in excess of £3 million and has previously been instructed on a number of high value partnership claims.  He has appeared in a variety of courts ranging from tribunals, the High Court and the Court of Appeal, as well as the High Court in Pakistan.

Tariq has recently passed the ‘Fast track Fellowship in International Arbitration’ and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is an experienced negotiator who has extensive in trying to resolve disputes at an early stage through mediation.

Tariq Mahmood maintains a key interest in resolution of disputes through ADR methods. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) since 2016. He regularly lectures on arbitration and was selected as one of the international consultants by the Council of Europe to deliver arbitration training to arbitrators, lawyers in Yerevan, Armenia.  Moreover, he is an experienced negotiator who has extensive experience in trying to resolve disputes at an early stage through mediation. 

Tariq lectures regularly on the subject of arbitration, including:

DIFC Academy – Talk on Expert Evidence in Arbitration -(Dubai)

Council of Europe: 2 day arbitration training to arbitrators, lawyers and corporate organisation as an International Consultant (Yerevan, Armenia)

London Centre for Legal English: Guest Speaker – Talk on Commodity Arbitration (London)

Society of Construction Law Conference: Talk on Construction Adjudication – Guest Speaker (Dublin)

Lahore University of Management – School of Law: Guest Speaker

Dr Mahmood appears on behalf of claimants and defendants in all areas of planning and environmental law. He has a specific interest in the following areas:

• Residential Development
• Commercial and Retail Development
• Environmental Law
• Gypsies & Travellers Enforcement
• Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO)

Languages

English

Urdu

Punjabi

Hindi

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Advisor ‘Global Shapers’ – World Economic Forum

Registered Advocate of the Lahore High Court, Pakistan

Registered Advocate of the Azad Jammu & Kashmir High Court, Pakistan

Education

University of Manchester

• LLB
• MA
• PhD
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute ofArbitrators (FCIArb)
• Civil/Commercial Mediator
• Registered Advocate of the Lahore High Court,  Pakistan
• Registered Advocate of the Azad Jammu & Kashmir High Court