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Djaleh Akbar
B.A, LLB, Advocate
Djaleh joined the firm in October 1987. Since joining she has been
principally involved in commercial matters, including corporate work, finance
and taxation including litigation in the courts in Pakistan upto the High Court. Her
area of expertise include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, general
business law, corporate finance, anti trust matters, franchising and
intellectual property. Her practice emphasises corporate law but she also has
a wide experience in the intellectual property area mainly in connection with
trade marks, patents, copyrights and electronic commerce work. Her experience
covers all aspects of trade marks and copyrights and unfair competition. She
has given opinions on trade marks availability and infringements, prepared
and prosecuted trade mark applications, and engaged in numerous opposition
and cancellation proceedings and appeals. In the areas of copyright she has
counseled on copyright ability of subject matter and has obtained copyright
registrations for various categories of work. She is enrolled as an advocate
with the Sindh Bar Council and is a member of the Pakistan Industrial and
Intellectual Property Association and the Asian Patent and Attorneys
Association.
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Khawja Mansoor
B.A.(Hons), M.A., LLB, Advocate
Khawja is a senior lawyer and has vast experience in the field of
intellectual property. In civil law he has specialised in the matters
relating to Trade Marks, Patents, Designs and Copyrights. In course of his
more than twenty years of practice in the High Courts as an intellectual
property law specialist he has successfully conducted highest number of
intellectual property cases more particularly suits for passing off and
infringements of Trade Marks, Patents, Designs and Copyrights and the
interlocutory proceedings therein. He has also experience in the cancellation
of registrations for the last three years he has been the Chairman of Pakistan
Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights Association (PIPRA) and member of
Asian Patents Attorneys Association. For the period 2000-2005 he is the
elected member of Sindh Bar Council, the highest representative body of the
lawyers of Sindh. In his last term during 1995-2000 besides a member Sindh
Bar Council he held the post of Vice Chairman during January 1999-2000.
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Javed Safdar Tanwiri
B.Com, LLB,
Advocate
Since joining the firm in 1979 Javed has maintained a special interest in
intellectual property matters, and over the years has been involved in a wide
range of litigations and commercial matters concerning trade marks, designs,
copyrights and electronic commerce law. He advises on a wide range of
commercial transactions involving IP rights. His experience includes the
preparation, processing and prosecution of applications, oppositions,
rectifications, appeal and suit pleadings and other actions in the courts and
at the Pakistan Trade Marks Office. He has appeared before various courts in Pakistan
upto the High Courts. He has also conducted many proceedings before the
Pakistan Trademarks Office and also before the Pakistan Copyright Board.
Apart from participating in many Intellectual Property/Law conferences,
workshops & seminars both locally and abroad Javed has also made
presentations on various topics concerning Intellectual Property. In addition
Javed has experience in the area of general corporate representation. He was
the Joint Secretary of Pakistan Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights
Association for six years and is now the Senior Vice Chairman-II of that
Association. He is also a member of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)
and is also on the Designs Committee of APAA.
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Seema Shahid Mansoor
B.A., LLB, Advocate
Seema joined the firm in 1983. She specializes in the area of intellectual
property including trade mark and copyright laws. Seema is engaged in the
protection of intellectual property and the enforcement of intellectual
property rights. Her experience includes preparation, processing and
prosecuting of applications, oppositions, rectifications, infringements and
other related matters. She advises on trademark availability, infringement
and other related intellectual property matters and is engaged in opposition
and cancellation proceedings and litigations. Seema has also been actively
involved in corporate law including mergers, acquisitions, taxation and other
related matters. She has also been active in matters relating to electronic
commerce law such as domain name registration and resolving domain name
conflict in Pakistan.
She has participated in litigation proceedings, while assisting senior
counsel in the courts of Pakistan
upto the High court in intellectual property and corporate matters. She is
enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh Bar Council and is a member of the
Karachi Bar Association, High Court Bar Association, Income Tax Bar
Association, The Pakistan Industrial & Intellectual Property Rights
Association (PIPRA), International Trademarks Association and a member of
Asian Patents Attorneys Association (APAA). She is also a member of the
Pakistan Women Lawyers' Association (PWLA).
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Anwer Ghani
B.Sc, Patent
Attorney
Mr. Anwer Ghani is a science
graduate in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from the University of Karachi.
He joined this firm in 1969 and worked closely with the senior partner of the
firm. He is responsible for providing patent and design laws services to our
clients on a full range of patent and design related matters. He enjoys
considerable responsibility and autonomy for handling patent/design
procurement, advising clients regarding Examination Reports, drafting of
claims, general correspondence, assignments, oppositions, infringement and attending
the hearing before the Controller.
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Ferzeen Bhadha
B.A., LLB, Advocate
Ferzeen joined the firm in 1998 and has since been involved in corporate and
commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, finance and taxation,
foreign direct investment, joint ventures, anti-trust, project financing,
developing standards for the petroleum industry, the setting up and operation
of manufacturing facilities, banking and financing transactions,
privatisation, acquisitions and litigation in taxation and other commercial
matters. Such work has been conducted in the field of beverages,
pharmaceuticals, petroleum, natural gas, minerals, cement, steel, tea,
banking and finance. She has also participated in litigation proceedings,
while assisting senior counsel in the courts of Pakistan upto the High Court. She
is enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh Bar Council and is a member of the
Pakistan Industrial & Intellectual Property Rights Association.
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Dilshad Bharucha
B.A., LLB, Advocate
Dilshad joined the firm in September 1998 and has since then primarily
involved in matters relating to corporate and commercial law including joint
ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, de-listing of companies,
incorporation of private and public unlisted companies, foreign direct
investment, syndicated loans and credit facilities and development of
industry standards for the petroleum sector. She has advised clients in
various fields, including food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, textiles,
petroleum, consumer durables, edibles, vehicles, insurance and financial
services. Dilshad has assisted senior counsel in the courts of Pakistan
upto the High Court for corporate and taxation matters. Some of the cases
involved suits for damages, compensation and arbitration. She also deals in
matters relating to intellectual property and her experience includes
preparation, processing and prosecuting of applications, oppositions,
infringements and other related matters. She advises on trademark
availability, infringement and other related intellectual property matters
and is also engaged in opposition proceedings. Dilshad is enrolled as an
advocate with the Sindh Bar Council and is a member of the Karachi Bar Association,
the Pakistan Industrial & Intellectual Property Rights Association,
International Trademarks Association and the Asian Patents Attorneys
Association.
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Khushnum Muncherji
B.A., LLB, Advocate
Khushnum joined the firm in September 1998. Since joining she has been
principally involved in commercial matters including coprorate work, finance
and taxation matters including assisting senior counsel in litigation in
specialised tribunals and the courts in Pakistan upto the High Court. Her
area of expertise include mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance, project
finance, anti trust matters and monopolies, franchising and intellectual
property. She has a wide experience in matters relating to intellectual
property which includes trade marks and copyrights. She has given opinions on
trade mark availability and infringements, prepared trade mark applications,
and engaged in various opposition proceedings and appeals. She is enrolled as
an advocate with the Sindh Bar Council and the Sindh High Court Bar
Association and is a member of the Pakistan Industrial and Intellectual
Property Association, International Trademarks Association (INTA) and the
Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA).
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Muhammad Bashir Abbasi
B.Com., LLB, Advocate
Muhammad Bashir joined the firm in 1988 and has since been principally
involved in Trade Marks and Copyright matters. His experience includes
preparation, processing and prosecution of Trade Marks applications and
oppositions. He appears in ex-parte and inter-parte proceeding at the
Pakistan Trade Marks office. Bashir is a member of the Pakistan Industrial
and Intellectual Property Association.
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Fizza Kazmi
Fizza graduated from the University
of Sussex at Brighton
in 1999. She was then enrolled and undertook the Bar Vocational Course at the
Inns of Court School of Law in London and the
Honorable Society of the Gray’s Inn and was
called to the Bar in November 2000. She joined Vellani & Vellani in
September 2000 and has since been involved primarily in corporate matters
including mergers, acquisitions and taxation matters and has also been
actively involved in matters relating to intellectual property. Her experience
includes preparation and processing of applications, oppositions,
rectifications, infringements and other related issues. She has assisted
senior counsel in the courts of Pakistan upto the High Court in
corporate and taxation matters. She is enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh
Bar Councila member of the Karachi Bar Association and of the Pakistan
Industrial & Intellectual Property Rights Association. She is also a
member of the Gray’s Inn and of the Bar Council of England and Wales.
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Huma Soomro
Huma joined the firm in 2004 as an Associate. She specialises in corporate,
commercial and intellectual property matters. She is also actively involved
in litigation proceedings and has assisted senior counsel in the High Court
and before various tribunals. She was educated at King’s College London. She
is a Barrister-at-Law and was called to the Bar in 1999. She is a member of
the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.
Before joining Vellani & Vellani, Huma worked in London at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
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Julie Ismail
Julie joined the firm in mid-1996 and has since then been primarily involved
in matters related to intellectual property, commercial and corporate laws.
She has also been engaged in matters relating to labour laws and finance and
taxation. Furthermore, she has participated in litigation proceedings, while
assisting senior counsel in the courts of Pakistan up to the High Court.
She was enrolled as an advocate in 2003 and is also a member of the Pakistan
Industrial & Intellectual Property Rights Association.
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Aisha Ghazi
Aisha graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
(SOAS) in 2002 and thereafter undertook the Bar Vocational Court at BPP Law School
London and the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
and was called to the Bar in October 2003. She then proceeded to complete the
post graduate LLM degree from University College London, University of London
(UCL) in Corporate and Commercial Law in September 2004 and thereafter worked
in-house with a firm of solicitors in Middlesex, London
before returning to Pakistan
and joining Vellani & Vellani in May 2005. Since her return, Aisha has
been involved in and had conduct of matters including general corporate and
commercial transactional work including matters relating to finance and
taxation, joint ventures, project financing, projects involving the grant and
exploitation of government concessions, anti-trust, the setting up and operation
of manufacturing facilities, banking and financing transactions,
privatisation deals, mergers, acquisitions, foreign direct investment,
incorporation of companies, public floatation and tender offers for listed
securities, patent and copyright related work, general commercial and
corporate litigation and certain arbitration matters. Such work has been
conducted in the field of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, cement, steel,
tobacco, edible oils, tea, shipping and trade, banking and finance, telecom and
civil aviation, and coal washing and coal purification. She is enrolled as an
advocate with the Sindh Bar Council and is a member of the Karachi Bar
Council, the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn,
the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
Rights (AIPPI) and the Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA).
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Hamood-ur-Rub Jaffry
Hamood-ur-Rub Jaffry who holds the
degrees of LL. B; M.B.A. and B. Sc., joined the firm in 1995 and has been
involved in matters relating to Intellectual Property, particularly in
connection with Patents, Designs and Plant variety. This includes Research,
Registrations, Assignments and Mergers, attending hearings before the
Controller of Patents and Registrar of Designs along with the other related
issues. He also has assisted the senior lawyers and the partner of the firm
in different legal matters of IP particularly relating to the issues of
existing law. He is also been assigned to attend courts for the purpose of
assisting senior counsels of the firm. Mr. Jaffry is registered with the
Sindh Bar Council since 2005. He is a member of the Karachi Bar Association;
Pakistan Industrial and Intellectual Property Association (PIPRA); Inter
Pacific Bar Association (IPBA); Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) and
International Trademark Association (INTA).
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Samiya Fikree
Samiya joined the firm in June 2001 and has since then been primarily
involved in matters related to intellectual property, corporate and
commercial law including privatisations, mergers and acquisitions,
de-listings of companies from the Stock Exchanges, developing industry
standards for the petroleum sector, and advising a number of clients in
various fields, including beverages and foods, pharmaceuticals, petroleum,
chemicals, edible oils, soaps and detergents, tea and the health sector. She
has also participated in litigation proceedings on various banking cases,
commercial and civil cases and family law matters while assisting senior
counsel in the various courts of Pakistan up to the Supreme Court.
She is enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh Bar Councila member of the
Karachi Bar Association and Pakistan Industrial & Intellectual Property
Rights Association.
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Mumtaz Gul
Mumtaz joined Vellani & Vellani in May 1997. Since joining she has been
mainly involved in intellectual property matters including preparation and
processing of applications, oppositions. Her experience particularly includes
drafting, finalising and filing of the documents/requests relating to the
assignments, mergers, change of names, addresses and registered users of
trademarks. She is enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh Bar Council a
member of the Karachi Bar Association and of the Pakistan Industrial &
Intellectual Property Rights Association.
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Sana Shaikh
Sana joined the firm in July 2002 and has since then been primarily involved
in matters related to intellectual property, corporate and commercial law.
She has also been involved in matters relating to property and family laws.
She has also participated in litigation proceedings on various commercial and
civil cases while assisting senior counsel in the various courts of Pakistan
up to the High Court. She is enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh Bar
Councila member of the Karachi Bar Association and Pakistan Industrial &
Intellectual Property Rights Association.
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Didar Karim
Didar Karim joined the firm in
October 1995 and has since then been involved in the matters relating to
Intellectual Property, particularly in connection with Trade Marks. Mr. Karim
is engaged in matters relating to Trade Marks which include preparation and
processing of applications and oppositions. He attends hearings in relation
to application (ex-parte) matters at the Pakistan Trade Marks Office. Mr.
Karim is registered with the Sindh Bar Council since 2004 and is a member of
the Karachi Bar Association, Pakistan Industrial and Intellectual Property
Rights Associate (PIPRA) and Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA).
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Khawja Shoaib Mansoor
Shoaib joined the firm in January 2006 and has since then been primarily
involved in matters related to intellectual property and corporate matters
involving the setting up of new companies and has also dealt with land
property matters. He has also participated in litigation proceedings on
various civil cases and family law matters while assisting senior counsel in
the High Court of Sindh. He is enrolled as an advocate with the Sindh Bar
Council and is a member of the Karachi Bar Association and also a member of
Pakistan Industrial & Intellectual Property Rights Association.
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