{"id":505,"date":"2021-11-29T22:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riaabarkergillette.com\/uk\/our-team\/ayla-ahmed-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:14:29","slug":"ayla-ahmed-uk","status":"publish","type":"our-team","link":"https:\/\/www.riaabarkergillette.com\/uk\/our-team\/ayla-ahmed-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayla Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-consultant\">Consultant<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayla Ahmed joined RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) as a consultant in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her legal expertise spans a range of areas, including contract negotiations, strategic planning, corporate and financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations and project finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayla\u2019s varied experience covers several sectors, with a particular focus on petroleum and natural gas, telecommunications and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayla Ahmed is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sindhbarcouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindh Bar Council<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shcbak.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindh High Court Bar Association<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincolnsinn.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Honourable Society of Lincoln\u2019s Inn<\/a> and is enrolled as an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LL.B. (Hons.) University of London 1995<br>LL.M. University of Cambridge 1996<br>Barrister at Law (Lincoln\u2019s Inn) 1997<br>Solicitor of England &amp; Wales (Admitted 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Languages:<\/strong> English and Urdu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riaabarkergillette.com\/uk\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LAW-FIRM-2025-720-px-300x166.png\" alt=\"Corporate International Who's Who Law Firm 2025 Logo\" class=\"wp-image-22573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riaabarkergillette.com\/uk\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LAW-FIRM-2025-720-px-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.riaabarkergillette.com\/uk\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LAW-FIRM-2025-720-px.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-expertise\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#689eb5\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Expertise<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item\"><details><summary class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__title\">Commercial<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__content\">\n<p>Commercial work includes distribution and agency agreements, supply of services contracts, sale of goods contracts and consultancy agreements.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item\"><details><summary class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__title\">Corporate<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__content\">\n<p>Corporate work includes restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and joint venture agreements and share sale and purchase agreements.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item\"><details><summary class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__title\">Energy<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__content\">\n<p>Energy work includes advising various oil and gas exploration and development companies in all their matters relating to concession documents, gas sales agreements, regulatory matters, mergers, acquisitions and restructuring. Also, advising gas transmission and distribution companies on the development of their transmission and distribution network and the sale and purchase of various businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item\"><details><summary class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__title\">Privatisation<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__content\">\n<p>Privatisation work includes advising the seller of a telecommunication company on all legal issues and the regulatory framework and negotiating all transaction documents with the purchaser. Represented the purchaser in a privatisation of a steel mill and successfully recovered the entire advance purchase price when the privatisation was abandoned. Represented the bidder in the privatisation of a company involved in the marketing and distribution of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item\"><details><summary class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__title\">Projects and project finance<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__content\">\n<p>Project and project finance work includes advising on implementation agreements, power purchase agreements, fuel supply agreements, EPC contracts, O&amp;M contracts, sovereign guarantees, letters of credit, accounts agreements, syndicated finance facilities, common terms agreements, inter-creditor agreements, sponsor support agreements, direct agreements and security agreements and deeds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item\"><details><summary class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__title\">Telecommunications<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-accordion-item__content\">\n<p>Telecommunications work includes advising various telecommunication companies with regard to all corporate and regulatory matters.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11049,"template":"","class_list":["post-505","our-team","type-our-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ayla Ahmed | Corporate Consultant | RIAA Barker Gillette (UK)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ayla Ahmed | Consultant | RIAA Barker Gillette (UK). 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