Abu Muhammad
Azfar Naeem
Trade remedies, trade dispute resolution, customs and import-export regulation, competition law, and corporate and commercial advisory.
Azfar is the founding partner of A & J Legal Consultants LLP. His practice is in trade remedies, trade dispute resolution, customs and import-export regulation, competition law, and corporate and commercial advisory.
He read law at the University of London, graduating in 2018. From January 2019 until May 2026 he served at the National Tariff Commission, latterly as Senior Legal Adviser, where he conducted several hundred matters on behalf of the Commission before the High Courts and the Anti-Dumping Appellate Tribunal, and contributed to the drafting of the National Tariff Commission (Procedure) Rules, 2022 and the Anti-Dumping Duties Rules, 2022. He has also drafted amending instruments to the Anti-Dumping Duties Act, 2015, and the conversion of the Safeguard Measures Ordinance, 2002 into a full Act of Parliament with corresponding substantive amendments.
His practice now extends that institutional experience into private representation. He appears in trade-remedy investigations and appeals, judicial review of administrative action, and matters before the Trade Dispute Resolution Commission. He is an accredited mediator under the International Mediation Institute, having completed the Musaliha International Centre for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution's 40-hour programme in 2025, and is gazetted as a mediator under Pakistani law.
He works in English and Urdu.