Muhammad Mumtaz Ali

Mr. Mumtaz has remained Additional Advocate General for the Government of Punjab in the Supreme Court as well as Assistant Attorney General for the Government of Pakistan at the Islamabad High Court. As a law officer, he represented the respective governments, their ministries, divisions, departments, and officials before the Supreme Court and Islamabad High Court in diverse constitutional, administrative, revenue, tax, and service matters.

He has handled litigation before courts, provided legal consultancy, and appeared before quasi-judicial and specialized forums including banking and administrative tribunals for various institutional clients such as the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, National Highway Authority, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, Pakistan Telecommunication Mobile Limited, Civil Aviation Authority, Sambu Construction, Deloitte Pakistan, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, LMKR, LCC Pakistan, KASB Securities, Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, Capital Development Authority, and the National Database and Registration Authority.

Mr. Mumtaz has conducted numerous arbitrations on behalf of the National Highway Authority, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Sambu Construction Co. Ltd., and various private construction contractors with regard to FIDIC-based contractual disputes. He has also acted as an arbitrator after his appointment by the court as Sole Arbitrator in construction disputes. Mr. Mumtaz is also a member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb), United Kingdom.

As legal counsel for Frontier Works Organization (FWO), he drafted and negotiated the Concession Agreement for conversion of NHA’s four-lane Karachi–Hyderabad Superhighway into a six-lane Motorway (M-9) on a Public Private Partnership basis, having a project cost of Rs. 44 billion. He also advised FWO with regard to the Financial Close of NHA’s M-2 Motorway rehabilitation and modernization project, involving a syndicated term finance facility of approximately Rs. 26 billion.

Mr. Mumtaz assisted the SECP, as external legal counsel, in proceedings initiated against the largest investment bank of Pakistan, Crescent Standard Investment Bank Limited, for various violations of the Companies Ordinance, 1984, NBFC Rules, 2003, Securities and Exchange Ordinance, 1969, and Prudential Regulations for NBFCs.

He has also worked as Legal Advisor (Corporate Affairs) for the National Logistic Cell (NLC), a government organization with the largest logistics and construction business in Pakistan. In his capacity as in-house counsel for NLC, Mr. Mumtaz advised, negotiated, drafted, and vetted various types of agreements and handled complex litigation matters. He advised NLC’s wholly owned subsidiary, NLC Developers (Pvt.) Ltd., on the multi-billion-rupee joint venture construction project “Karachi Financial Towers,” including advice relating to shareholders’ agreements, joint ventures, sale purchase agreements, construction contracts, finance agreements, disputes with related parties and contractors, board meetings and minutes, and other miscellaneous matters. He has also advised on other joint ventures of NLC such as JPGL (a power generation company), Progas (an LPG business), NLC Izhar (a construction company), Saudi Bin Laden Logistic (a logistics company operating in Saudi Arabia), and Pearl NLC (a construction company incorporated in Qatar).

Mr. Mumtaz has further served as a visiting lecturer at various law colleges including University College of Islamabad, English Legal Education System, Islamabad, and Roots College International, Rawalpindi. He has taught Law of Contract to students of the University of London and Corporate and Business Law (Paper F4) to ACCA students at SKANS, Islamabad, and CPE, Islamabad.