Pakistani lawyer scores first

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Pakistani lawyer scores first

Pakistani lawyer Zarrar Sehgal has been declared among the top 10 transportation and aviation finance lawyers in the USA, according to an announcement by Chambers and has been ranked in the prestigious “Band 1”.

Zarrar Sehgal is the first Pakistani to enter the category and the first lawyer in the world of any nationality below the age of forty years to enter the list at Band 1.

Zarrar Sehgal is the Global Head of Transport and Logistics and has extensive experience representing underwriters, lenders, lessors and governmental agencies engaged in a wide variety of asset finance transactions, including portfolio securitizations, acquisition financing, leveraged leasing, EETC transactions, secured lending, structured financing and credit enhancement.

Zarrar is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum.  He serves as an aviation finance lawyer with strong relationships and strong capital markets skills and is also an advisor to several of the large investment and commercial banks.  He is also the President of TCF-USA, a non-profit organization affiliated with The Citizens Foundation in Pakistan.

A BA from BostonUniversity and a JD (Juris Doctor) from GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter, Sehgal is a Partner at Clifford Chance LLP, which is a global law firm offering a comprehensive and nationally recognized law services, backed by top ranked practices in the world’s major financial and business centres.  The firm advises leading international financial institutions.

Chambers publishes the world’s leading guides to the legal profession and has built a reputation for in-depth and objective research since 1990. It operates with a team of over 140 highly qualified full-time researchers who conduct thousands of interviews with lawyers and their clients worldwide. Based on their research, Chambers honours outstanding practitioners from around the world.