Profile

Muneeb is a trusted legal adviser and regulatory expert with over 30 years of distinguishable experience. His expertise spans a wide range of legal fields including banking, companies, contracts, energy, investment, regulatory affairs and technology. He has been at the forefront of advising on complex business transactions, groundbreaking construction and energy projects, and high-stakes investment decisions. His advisory portfolio includes various acquisitions, financing agreements, joint ventures, oil and gas transactions, privatisations, procurements and regulatory consents. As an accomplished counsel and arbitrator, Muneeb has handled several arbitrations in intricate contractual disputes, earning him reputation for professionalism and skilfulness.

RECENT Works

Muneeb has worked extensively in the energy sector, ranging from midstream and downstream transactions to development of regulatory frameworks. He advised on joint ventures, gas sale and purchase agreements, gas transportation arrangements, LNG imports, oil terminal project, oil distribution contracts and petroleum concessions. Additionally, he advised on renewable energy transactions including solar and wind generation farms.

Regulatory work

Muneeb has long been advising on the regulatory affairs as well as development of regulatory frameworks. In particular, he worked on the development of licenses for gas businesses, rules and regulations for third-party access to gas networks and LNG terminals, Gas Network Code, framework for corporate restructuring and rehabilitation, private equity and funds regualtions and countering financial crimes.

Law Reforms

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

government

Additionally, 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. He authored the first national strategy on countering financial crimes, national risk assessment report on financial crimes, and several legislative instruments for the Government of Pakistan.

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

Muneeb is a trainer of regulatory frameworks, and has delivered over 50 capacity-building trainings in the last 12 years. Most of these trainings were jointly sponsored by governmental authorities 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.