Barrister Ahmad Farooq Malik started law practice in 1999. He has previously worked as an Associate and Senior Associate with the leading law firms IRFAN & IRFAN (Attorneys-At-Law) and AITZAZ AHSAN & ASSOCIATES (Advocates & Attorneys). Barrister Malik has also remained the Chief Legal Officer of the Infrastructure Development Authority of the Punjab (IDAP).

Barrister Malik’s areas of expertise include advising clients on issues including corporate structuring, preparation of constitutive documents, regulatory consents & approvals. He has extensive experience of drafting complex legal documents including, transfer of technology agreements, investment agreements, joint venture agreements, media & entertainment agreements, construction and development agreements, management services agreements, public private partnerships agreements, intellectual property license/assignment agreements, franchise agreement, software development agreement, distribution agreements and deeds/documents for transactions in respect of immovable properties.

He regularly counsel clients in a wide range of intellectual property right issues ranging from registration, prosecution, responding to office actions, anti-counterfeiting actions and legal actions. Barrister Malik has filed and pursued complaints before the Pakistan Office of Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre pursuant to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

Barrister Malik advises on various contentious matters related to civil and constitutional law and has vast experience in conducting contentious matters before different judicial and quasi-judicial forums in Pakistan. A few of his reported cases include.

PLD 2003 Lah 686: Asif Sehgal vs. National Accountability Bureau PLD 2003 Lah 752: Ahmad Abdullah and 62 others vs. Govt. of the Punjab and 3 others