Arbitration

The Dispute Economy, Convened

Enforcement of foreign awards before Pakistani courts under the New York Convention framework; the pending reform of Pakistan's arbitration law; investor-state risk after Reko Diq and Karkey; arbitration clause design in SIFC-era transactions; sanctions and arbitrability; and the institutional landscape from ICC and LCIA to regional centres. This pillar brings international and domestic arbitration practitioners, corporate disputes counsel, and institutional voices to the same table, a room Pakistan's arbitration community currently lacks.

A half-day convening co-located with PFIS 27, sharing its venue, its international faculty, and its curation standards. Senior partners from domestic and international firms, corporate GCs carrying live disputes, and institutional voices, in two working sessions each run to the triangular-room standard. Co-location is a deliberate realism choice: the international arbitration practitioners attending PFIS do double duty, one venue contract serves both events, and the Day complements rather than competes with existing bar and institutional events.

Two Chatham House Rule roundtables a year, 20–25 persons, in Karachi and Lahore, alongside the first annual Pakistan Arbitration Note, an enforcement tracker published each year.