Sara Seerat

Personal Bio

Job Title: Managing Partner

Areas of Expertise:

Sara Seerat, Barrister, is the Managing Partner of Mahmood Awan & Partners. She is an expert in electricity and petroleum laws and represents multiple power generation and oil marketing companies before the High Courts and regulatory authorities including Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority and National Electric Power Regulatory Authority. She is recognized by the firm’s clients as a dependable litigation lawyer who would accept challenging cases of first impression or of daunting complexity.

Ms. Seerat has gained considerable experience as an arbitration lawyer. She is also a CiARB certified mediator and undertakes mediations in matters referred by the High Courts and MICADR in Pakistan.

Ms. Seerat qualified with an LLB (Hons.) degree from Queen Mary, University of London in 2009. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Hon’ble Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 2010 before joining Orr, Dignam & Co., where she worked on major transactions for power and E&P companies besides structuring various transactions including those relating to banking, fertilizer, cement, telecommunications, and competition.

Ms. Seerat was given the role of a Partner in July 2015 and appointed the Managing Partner in 2019. She has been advising and representing clients in various areas including power, oil and gas, competition, regulatory affairs, property and employment.

She is currently the principal litigation lawyer at Mahmood Awan & Partners, representing firm clients in complex litigation matters before Islamabad, Lahore, Sindh and Peshawar High Courts. She also conducts trials before the courts in Islamabad.