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The advocates

The owner, and the advocate who opened the chambers.

Altaf Law Company has its head office in Lahore. The practice is corporate law, taxation, intellectual property, banking, commercial and property work, and litigation, for companies and for individuals.

Atif Altaf, chief executive of Altaf Law Company

Chief executive

Atif Altaf

Advocate High Court

Atif Altaf leads the firm. His visiting card names him Advocate High Court and chief executive. A 2018 notice of an interview names him Atif Kamran Altaf, High Court advocate and CEO. The firm’s own film introduces him as a tax barrister.

His own profile banner describes him as a Lahore High Court columnist, author and researcher. He has practised with this firm since June 2005.

Corporate law · Income tax · Corporate tax · Sales tax

His LinkedIn profile

Education

  1. 2003–2007

    University of the Punjab

    Master of Laws (LL.M.)

  2. 2001–2003

    Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab

    Bachelor of Commerce, finance and financial management

  3. 1999–2001

    Forman Christian College

    Intermediate, science. College cricket team, and the Under-19 Pakistan cricket team.

  4. 1997–1999

    Esena Oxford / Foundation School System

    High school diploma, science. School cricket team.

Experience

  1. June 2005 – present

    Law practitioner, Altaf Law Company

    Lahore. Self-employed. Corporate, tax and legal practice. Twenty-one years with the chambers.

  2. June 2009 – present

    Associate lawyer, Naeem Law Associates

    Lahore. Tax, corporate and legal attorneys.

  3. May 2008 – April 2009

    Associate lawyer, Zahid Law Associates

    Lahore. Corporate and tax consultants.

  4. October 2006 – August 2007

    Apprentice, Abbasi Law Chambers, District Courts

    Okara. Pupillage at the district courts.

  5. October 2003 – February 2004

    Apprentice, Ehsaan & Co., Advocates and Tax Consultants

    Okara. Early training in advocacy and tax.

The work he takes

  • Corporate work from a new business through to an established company
  • Mergers and acquisitions: reading and settling the documents so the deal matches the law
  • Tax and employment consequences of a transaction, before anyone signs
  • Forming companies and other business entities, and the papers that go with them
  • Income tax, sales tax, and the disputes that follow a notice

Founder and patron

Chaudhary Muhammad Altaf Hussain

Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan

He established Altaf Law Company in 1979. The chambers carry his name. The firm’s own profile, and its public listing, describe him as patron and as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The firm’s introduction says the history of the chambers reaches the 1970s, and that a lawyer can work on an instruction 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, when the matter requires it.

Credentials

Licences, certificates, and recognition.

What the firm and its advocates have put on the public record. Awards and government permissions will be added as the chambers send them.

Licences to practise

High Court

Advocate High Court

Atif Altaf

Supreme Court of Pakistan

Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan

Chaudhary Muhammad Altaf Hussain

Certificates

Lahore Tax Bar

Pass in law

Atif Altaf · 2008

Lahore Tax Bar Association, Tax Academy

Principles of taxation: Income Tax Ordinance 2001 and the Sales Tax Act 1990

Atif Altaf · 2015–2016

Softax (Private) Limited

Certification in taxation laws

Atif Altaf · 2015–2016

Published clientele

Names the firm has put on its own listing.

These names appear on the firm’s public profile. They show the spread of the practice: companies, a Supreme Court advocate, and sportsmen, in Lahore, Okara and abroad. They are not case results, and they are not a promise about a new instruction.

  • Austin Computer Systems & Net Café (Pvt) Ltd — Dubai, Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore
  • Ch. Aitzaz Ehsan, Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan — Islamabad and Lahore
  • Muhammad Hafeez — Pakistan cricket team, Lahore
  • Zulfeqar Babar — Pakistan cricket team, Okara
  • Al-Haq Securities (Pvt) Ltd — Lahore
  • Pak Afghan Impex (Pvt) Ltd — Lahore
  • B.M.A Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Ltd — Okara
  • Tahir Shopping Centre (Pvt) Ltd — Okara
  • Panjtan Pak Flour Mills, Jameel Rice Mills, Hafeez Rice Mills, Hafiz Rice Mills — Okara
  • Pak Ice Factory, Bismillah Ice Factory, Maqbool Ice Factory — Okara
  • Asghar, Millat and Sheikh cold storages — Okara; Adnan Cold Storage — Depalpur
  • Pak Dairies — Okara
  • New Hujra Petroleum Services — Hujra

Our mission

The attorneys try to understand the client’s business and to keep the advice clear: the tax position, the papers, and a plan that can still be followed in a difficult year.

Our values

The team is held to the quality of the work, and to doing what the client was told would be done.