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Mr. Badaruddin F. Vellani
B.Sc. (Hons), Chem. Eng. (Loughborough),B. A. (Wales),
Barrister-at-Law, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Badaruddin F. Vellani
Badaruddin F. Vellani is a partner of the firm and has been practicing
as an advocate at Karachi since his return in 1982 after completing his
studies abroad. In January 1984 Badaruddin F. Vellani became a partner
in the firm.
His legal practice has concentrated on commercial matters, including
corporate work, mergers, demerger, reconstructions, acquisitions,
disinvestments, anti-trust matters and monopolies, corporate finance,
project finance, infrastructure projects, building and construction
contracts, and taxation, and has included litigation in the courts upto
the Supreme Court.
In addition to his general legal practice, he advises on industrial
property or intellectual matters including registration assignment and
licensing of patents, trade marks, copyrights, unfair competition
licensing and franchising, and litigation in each of these specialised
areas of work.
The experience gained through his legal practice has led to his being
invited to join the boards of directors of various companies
representing the interests of foreign investors.
He has also been the chairman of a working group for the setting up of
a legal information foundation and in a project funded by the Asia
Foundation for making the country's laws and regulations and the
decisions of the Courts in Pakistan available through the electronic
media including via the internet. He has also acted as a consultant on
an Asian Development Bank sponsored project and carried out by the Asia
Foundation for the Government of Pakistan on Pakistan Legal and
Judicial Reforms. He has also participated in a Symposium organized and
held in Manila in September 1999 by the Asian Development Bank on
Secured Transactions Law Reforms. He is a member of The General Council
of the Bar, Pakistan Industrial and Intellectual Property Association,
the Asian Patent and Attorneys Association, the Pakistan National
Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce and a member of the
Task Force on Tax Administration.
Mr. Ameen M. Vellani
B.A., LLB,
Advocate of the High Court of Sindh
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M. Vellani
Ameen joined the firm in 1991. His initial responsibilities included
setting up and administration of the firm's computer systems and
related IT services, communications systems as well as advising on the
design and construction of the firm's purpose built office building and
the transition of the office to the new building, besides handling
other administrative responsibilities, while preparing for a career in
the legal profession. He participated in and familiarised himself with
various aspects of the firm's practise and especially in Intellectual
Property matters as well as commercial and corporate law matters.
Ameen was enrolled as an advocate in 2001 and as an advocate of the
High Court of Sindh in 2003. His legal practise has included corporate
work, commercial matters, construction and engineering contracts,
project finance (including syndicated conventional finance and Islamic
finance), mergers, taxation and intellectual property matters.
He is registered with the Sindh Bar Council and is a member of the
Karachi Bar Association, Sindh High Court Bar Association, Pakistan
Industrial and Intellectual Property Association, Income Tax Bar
Association-Karachi, as well as a member of International Trademarks
Association, Asian Patent and Attorneys Association and Inter-Pacific Bar Association.
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