H.S. Advocate & Co.
H.S. Advocate & Co. defends and structures the affairs of Pakistan's business community before the FBR, SECP, and the provincial revenue authorities, with the precision your capital deserves and the conviction your case demands.
Every engagement at H.S. Advocate & Co. is built on the same foundation: command of the statute, command of the procedure, and an unsentimental focus on the commercial outcome. Select a practice area to see precisely what we do and what it protects.
Your company's statutory record is its legal spine, and the SECP reads it before anyone reads you. We keep that record airtight, current, and defensible: from incorporation and constitutional documents to the resolutions, returns, and filings that keep regulators satisfied and investors confident.
An FBR notice is not a request. It is the opening move of a proceeding that can end in demand, penalty, and prosecution. We answer it the way it deserves to be answered: on the law, on the record, and on time. As Authorised Representative before the tax authorities, we conduct your defence across Pakistan, from the first show-cause to the final order.
Indirect tax is where good businesses bleed quietly. Blocked refunds, disallowed input tax, and provincial notices that arrive without warning. We stop the bleeding. From FBR sales tax to Punjab Revenue Authority enforcement, we keep your registrations clean, your credits intact, and your replies filed before the deadline ever becomes leverage against you.
Your brand is the one asset competitors can steal without breaking into your office. We make sure they can't. From precise Nice-classification strategy to registration, opposition, and enforcement, we convert your name, mark, and goodwill into property the law will actually defend.
Most partnership disputes are written into the deed on day one, by whoever drafted it carelessly. We draft yours so the dispute never starts. Capital, profit, authority, exit, and dissolution: every clause stress-tested against the way businesses actually fall out, for trading houses, manufacturers, and service firms alike.
A contract is a prediction of every way the deal can go wrong, written before it does. We draft and review yours with that discipline: plain enough to govern the relationship, sharp enough to win the dispute. Supply, services, agency, shareholding, employment: if it binds your business, it crosses our desk first.
The cheapest tax dispute is the one that never arises. We plan your affairs so it doesn't: lawful structuring, accurate withholding, clean returns, and credits claimed in full, for companies, AOPs, salaried executives, exporters, and the IT sector's exemption regimes.
Foreign capital entering Pakistan meets a wall of procedure. Apostilles, undertakings, repatriation rules, and regulators who answer slowly. We are the counsel on the ground who turns that wall into a doorway: structuring entry, legalising documents, and keeping the investment compliant from first remittance onward.
Haseeb Sharif, Advocate, founded H.S. Advocate & Co. on a conviction most firms abandon as they grow: that a business client is owed a lawyer who has actually mastered the statutes governing its money, not one who looks them up after the meeting.
The chamber practises exclusively in corporate, tax, and commercial law. That focus is deliberate. It is why the firm is trusted as Authorised Representative before Pakistan’s tax authorities, why its SECP filings clear without query, and why its contracts survive the disputes they were written to prevent.
From its chambers in Lahore, the firm acts for trading houses, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, IT exporters, startups, and foreign investors across Pakistan. In short, anyone whose capital deserves counsel that treats it as seriously as they do.
Every notice has a deadline, and every deadline favours the side that moves first. Bring us the matter while the options are still open.
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