Our Story
Excellence in law, led by decades inside the institutions we now advise.
MAS & Associates was founded on a simple premise: that the best banking and corporate counsel comes from lawyers who have sat on the other side of the table. Led by Muhammad Akram Sawleh, the firm draws on direct experience within the State Bank of Pakistan and the country's largest commercial banks.
That vantage point shapes everything we do. When a client brings us a regulatory question, we are not reading the circular for the first time — we have worked inside the institutions that write and enforce them. When a facility agreement lands on our desk, we know which clauses a credit committee will fight for and which are negotiable.
Today the practice spans intellectual property, corporate governance, taxation, real estate and dispute resolution alongside its banking core — but the approach has not changed. We give advice grounded in how banks, regulators and courts actually behave, not just how the law reads on paper.
Former counsel to Bank Alfalah, Habib Bank Limited & Standard Chartered
Deep institutional experience at the State Bank of Pakistan
Specialist expertise in intellectual property & corporate governance

