Profile

Muneeb is a corporate lawyer and regulatory expert with over 30 years of distinguishable experience. His expertise spans a wide range of legal fields including corporate, commercial, finance & investment, oil & gas, regulatory affairs and telecom. He has been at the forefront of advising on complex business transactions, collaborative energy projects, high-stakes investment decisions and large dispute settlements. Additionally, his advisory portfolio includes acquisitions, commercial & financing arrangements, joint ventures, gas sector transactions, privatisations, procurements and regulatory representations.

Besides, he is an accomplished counsel and arbitrator who successfully handled several arbitrations in intricate contractual disputes and high-profile corporate litigation which consequently earned him a reputation for professionalism and skilfulness.

Further, Muneeb acted as the legal adviser for Ministry of Finance, Pakistan for almost 10 years. He represented the Government of Pakistan before several international institutions on countering financial crimes for a number of years. Moreover, he authored the first national strategy on countering financial crimes, national risk assessment on financial crimes. He also drafted and advised on several legislative instruments for the Government of Pakistan.

Regulatory work

In addition, he has been advising on law and policy reforms for over 20 years. This includes several legal consultancies on legal and regulatory reforms for governmental departments and international institutions such as, the World Bank, UNODC, USAID, IFC, GIZ and ADB. Recently, Muneeb has been consulting for the World Bank on the privatisation framework of power distribution companies and gas sector reforms.

board member

Muneeb is Board Member of a state-owned enterprise engaged in mortgage finance. Moreover, he has been advising the Boards of Directors of large corporations for some time.

trainer

He is a trainer of regulatory frameworks, and has delivered over 50 capacity-building trainings in the last 12 years to the officials of government departments and regulatory authorities, including ANF, FIA, FBR and provincial Police. Most of these trainings were jointly sponsored by the national government and international financial institutions. Earlier, he was a visiting lecturer of commercial laws at the leading universities of Pakistan. He has written a number of research papers, articles and notes on major legal developments. He regularly writes on Linkedin.