Muhammad Umer Toor

693-C, Bilal Street, Faisal Town, Lahore

Mobil: (+92) 323-4986080 | Email: i.umer.toor@gmail.com |
Skype: umtoor | FaceTime: umertoor1@icloud.com

OBJECTIVE
Seeking to achieve academic and practical excellence in international financial and arbitration
law

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
Member Lahore High Court, Lahore & Punjab Bar Council

EDUCATION
2013-2015 University of London, Upper Second Class 2:1
International Programme, LLB (Hons)
- Studied Company Law, Contract Law, Property Law, etc
2008-2012 Forman Christian College University, Lahore CGPA: 3.64
B.Sc. (Hons) Business
- Studied Intermediate Accounting, Business Law, Financial Management, Managerial
Accounting etc
2006-2008 Air Base Inter-College, Sargodha
Intermediate, FSC (Pre-Engg.)

WORK EXPERIENCE
2017- Ahmed & Pansota: Advocates & Legal Consultants
Nov-Cont’d Associate
• Represent Albaraka Bank Ltd. before banking and other courts;
represent(ing) in more than 50 cases
• Drafted various opinions and vetted documents on EOBI, social security
and employment issues for one of leading Pakistani and Asian university
• Drafted PLAs in banking suits before High Court representing ex-directors
facing liability under personal guarantees worth Rs.200+ million
• Representing an industrial estate in more than 18 cases, including civil
trials, before various forums, as well as drafted various opinions on wide
range of corporate, property, employment, company law matters
• Assisted in defamation suit against SAMAA on behalf of Sheikh Hasham
bin Riaz and successfully got Rs. 0.5 Million in damages
• Assisted and drafted writ successfully overturning national election
candidate disqualification over pending banking court litigation and loans
above Rs.2 million
• Assisted in advising a client on demerger of an undertaking from a large-
scale company into small-scale, including jurisdictional issues
 • Representing companies in national and provincial labour courts over
employment contracts, termination, wages disputes, etc.
• Conducted evidence proceedings (examination in chief and cross-
examination) in more than a dozen insurance, property, company law,
criminal and specific performance of commercial contract suits
• Drafted opinion on income tax certificate exemption law across provinces
• Assisted in writ petition concerning fraud and miscalculation of over 11
million commercial electricity units involving quasi-judicial forums
• Assisted in quashing application for registration of criminal case on
copyright infringements
• Successfully obtained various interim injunctions (including mandatory) in
civil, banking and constitutional cases
• Represented clients in service tribunals over suspension and dismissal from
service
• Assisting in a suit for embezzlement of over Rs.50 million from bank
account of customers
• Assisted in drafting applications and replies in banking recovery suits over
Rs. 40 million

2017 Justice Project Pakistan

Oct-Nov Researcher
• Co-authoring policy paper for Ministry of Human Rights reviewing all
death penalty offences in Pakistan’s jurisdiction for UPR
• Assisting in collecting statistics on juvenile, physically and mentally
disabled offenders on death row

2016-2017 Supreme Court of Pakistan

Oct-Oct Judicial Law Clerk
• Prepared memorandum of facts and law of constitutional petitions and
writs of certiorari filed before the court, both at leave granting and appeal
stages
• Assisted Hon. Jst Manzoor A Malik (Supreme Court Judge) in all matters
pertaining to the research of facts and law in pending appeals and cases,
and related administrative matters
• Other responsibilities included research, analysis, proofreading and
drafting of opinions and judgments in exercise of court’s appellate
jurisdiction in criminal and civil matters
• Accompanied Hon'ble Judge in his tours to provincial registries of
Supreme Court of Pakistan.

2016 Institute for Research, Advocacy and Development (IRADA)

Feb-July Consultant
• Co-authored a 40,000 words review of all major laws and jurisprudence
concerning free speech and media which became part of the international
 conference organised by Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies in collaboration
with International Media Support in July 2016 in Islamabad
• The work has been published as book form titled: “Modernizing Media
Law in Pakistan: Review of Legal Framework Governing Media”

2015-2016 Khalid Ishaq Law Associates; Bokhari Aziz & Karim

June-October Associate
• Assisted in writ petition challenging vires of Punjab Infrastructure
Development Cess Act, 2015;
• Representing a construction company in Securities and Exchange
Commission of Pakistan inquiry against director duties and minority
shareholding complaint;
• Assisted and represented at trial and appellate level in rent property
ejectment cases;
• Assisted in defending Gujranwala Electric & Power Company against writ
petitions challenging National Accountability Bureau (NAB) inquiries into
electricity defaults;
• Assisted in writ petition challenging NAB’s inquiry into ongoing banking
recovery litigation and putting the alleged defaulter in Exit Control List;
• Represented various scheduled banks (such as National Bank of Pakistan,
United Bank Limited, Bank Al-Falah, etc.) before banking, civil, consumer,
labour courts;
• Assisted in drafting election petitions before first instance tribunals and
appellate forums on nomination, post-election corrupt practices, etc.;
• Drafted dozens of opinions of loan arrangements, loan recovery, bank
guarantees, finance & commercial agreements, etc.;
• Drafted and argued rent ejectment petitions and appeals;
• Assisted in drafting a successful veil lifting event before High Court in a
banking recovery case;
• Advised on loan rescheduling proposals;
• Audit documents for loan agreements;
• Working with a team appointed by High Court Lahore, Pakistan for
liquidation of Innovative Investment Bank Limited & HSZ Securities;
• Generally, prepare suits, opinions, and research work in matters related
civil, company, consumer, family, commercial, election laws etc.

2012-2013 3-E Business Solutions (Pvt) Limited

June-July Manager Planning
Prepared daily accounts, financial reports, balance sheets; liaison with the
customer bank for hiring/firing of employees

2011 Punjab Argicultural & Marketing Company

Jul-Aug Internee, Accounting & Finance
Performed capital budgeting on four projects (one related to a modern
 slaughterhouse & three to small-agricultural units), bank reconciliation
statements, of capital budgeting

2011 The Urban Unit, Govt. of Punjab, Lahore

Aug-Sept Internee, Urban Economics & Planning
Performed a statistical research on the manufacturing industries of Lahore
• Derived new statistical measures from existing databases
• Report (8,000+ words) of the state of manufacturing units based in Lahore

UNIVERSITY PROJECTS
§ Research paper introducing intellectual property laws
§ Conducted a thorough Financial analysis of Lucky Cement Ltd for prospective
shareholders
§ Research paper on decline of newspaper industry in America, focusing on The New
York Times

EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE
§ Participated and represented as Law Clerk to Honorable Judge (11) at International
Mental Health Law Reform conference held by Justice Project Pakistan, Lahore, 2017
§ Participated and presented compendium on media laws in Pakistan in International
Conference on “Media Regulations – Challenges and Reforms,” July 2016, held at
Serena Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan
§ Organised 2nd National Mediation & Negotiation Competition, 2015, University
College Lahore
§ Organised (logistics & adjudication) 15th International Shahjiwana Parliamentary
Debating Competition, 2014, University College Lahore
§ Organised 1st National Moot Competition, 2014, University College Lahore
§ Participated in three Oral Rounds at Frankfurt Investment Moot, University of
Frankfurt, 2015 in which we represented government of England and Banco de
Portugal over denial of justice, state responsibility, admissibility, jurisdictional,
economic damages, and many other claims
§ Awarded ‘Honorary Mention’ at FORMUN’14, Forman Christian College, University
§ 12th GIKI Parliamentary Debates (as a speaker)
§ Twice participated as Environment Committee delegate in Pakistan Young Leaders’
Conference 2011 & 2012
§ Participated in fund raising & disaster relief providing program with a private team for
2010 flood affectee in Southern Punjab
§ Participated in YLES (2010) business model, case study & ad-making competition
§ Participated in fund raising & disaster relief providing program with Forman
Sociological Society for 2009 Swat Internally Displaced People

COMPUTER SKILLS/INTERESTS
§ Microsoft Office; Visio
§ Academic interest in manufacturing planning; lean methodology; MIS; six sigma
& process improvement
REFERENCES
§ References can be furnished on request