The record comes first.
Most of these disputes are decided on documents. The first step is the full file: the evaluation record, the assessment, the correspondence.
Mercury Chambers · Islamabad & Lahore
Advice built to hold when the record is read.
Mercury Chambers advises and represents businesses, investors and public authorities in Pakistan on constitutional, regulatory, commercial and tax matters, from the first decision to the final appeal. The chambers is led by a senior partner who sat as a judge of the Lahore High Court.
Forums High Courts, the Supreme Court, tribunals and regulators
Roles Advocates, arbitrators and consultants
Offices Islamabad and Lahore
§ 01 — Find your route
Where do you stand?
Choose the description closest to your position. Each route leads to the practice that handles that kind of matter.
Licences, contracts, tax and competition questions, usually with a regulator or a deadline involved.
§ 02 — Expertise
Nine practices, one standard of preparation.
- 01 Constitutional and Administrative Law Petitions and fundamental rights, judicial review, challenges to legislation, service and tenure, tribunals. Power exercised, then examined.
- 02 Public Procurement Bid evaluation and award disputes, complaints and review, writ challenges, public contracts. When the scorecard has to be explained.
- 03 Regulatory Regimes Oil and gas, energy and power, telecom and media: licences, tariffs, compliance and appeals. Tariffs, licences and long-term agreements.
- 04 Competition Dominance, anti-competitive agreements, investigations, merger control and appeals. Clearance before completion.
- 05 Commercial Contracts, commercial litigation, arbitration and ADR, banking, insurance, property. Drafted for the worst day.
- 06 Taxation Income and sales tax, audits, references, recovery and Finance Act changes. Coercive recovery has limits.
- 07 International Economic Law Anti-dumping, countervailing duties, appeals and WTO trade rules. WTO rules, domestic remedies.
- 08 Investment, IP and M&A Structuring and governance, joint ventures, acquisitions, foreign investment, intellectual property. Structured correctly, cleared by the right authority.
- 09 Startups, Fintech and Emerging Technologies Founders and funding, fintech and virtual-asset licensing, data protection, AI governance. A sound footing under fast-moving rules.
§ 03 — Approach
Written the way a court will read it.
Judgments are numbered, reasoned and precise. We hold our own work to the same discipline, whether it is a petition, an opinion or a contract.
The right forum, the right route.
The wrong route can cost a limitation period or a remedy. It is mapped at the outset, and where a statutory forum cannot give relief, we say so plainly.
Advice before the decision.
The best time to test a decision is before it is taken, while authority, procedure and reasoning can still be corrected.
A view from the bench.
Our senior partner has seen from the bench how courts read evidence. Claims and defences are prepared with that reading in mind.
§ 05 — People
Senior attention, by design.
Justice (R) Mohammad Raheel Kamran Sheikh Senior Partner Barrister, Middle Temple. Judge of the Lahore High Court, 2021–2026. Constitutional, commercial and regulatory law. 
Fatima Wahla Associate Partner Venture capital, mergers and acquisitions and corporate deal structuring, across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America. 
Widad Kamran Associate Partner Emerging technology: artificial intelligence, virtual assets and autonomous systems. 
