Shahmeer Naveed Arshad

Shahmeer Naveed Arshad is a Partner at RIAA Barker Gillette in the Lahore office, specialising in Mergers and Acquisitions. His practice spans corporate and M&A, real estate and development, banking and finance, and dispute resolution, with additional expertise in tax, employment and intellectual property.

Shahmeer has led some of the market's most significant real-estate and development structures, including a PKR 94 billion real-estate investment trust (REIT) implemented through a special-purpose vehicle, a PKR 10 billion residential joint venture, a PKR 6 billion shareholders' and joint-venture structure, and a PKR 3 billion share exit, together with multi‑billion‑rupee shareholder and customer‑return restructurings. He has also led the legal audit of over 600 house‑finance transactions for a leading commercial bank. His dispute resolution practice includes securing enforcement of a PKR 73 million arbitral award as the rule of the Court for a state‑owned gas utility and successfully challenging Punjab Revenue Authority orders, extinguishing a client liability of approximately PKR 394 million.

Shahmeer holds an LL.B. (Hons) from King's College London and an LL.M. from Columbia University, New York. He is an Advocate of the High Court and a member of the Lahore High Court Bar Association and the Punjab Bar Council.

He has been recognised as a lead partner by The Legal 500 in the "Firm to Watch" category for Corporate M&A, Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property.