Centre for LegalCompetition, Economic Security, Disputes & Arbitration, and Investment. CEDI's name is its programme: each pillar has a defined Year 1 footprint, deliberately modest, funded before it runs, and expanded only on demonstrated demand.
Merger control, enforcement, and market power in Pakistan's strategic sectors.
CCP enforcement modernisation, merger review for conglomerate and PSX-listed group transactions, cartel exposure in energy and FMCG, and the competition dimension of digital platforms and SIFC-era concessions.
One closed roundtable with competition counsel and enforcement-side participation; competition threads woven through the flagship forum's sector panel.
Sanctions, screening, and statecraft: how global rules reach Pakistani deals.
US and EU sanctions exposure in Chinese-linked structures, export controls in technology supply chains, foreign investment screening of Pakistani-connected transactions abroad, and the security review dimension of inbound strategic capital. The signature CEDI territory, imported directly from the European forum format.
The signature panel of PFIS 27 ('Pakistani Deals Under Foreign Screening'); the November 2026 proof-of-concept roundtable; the annual market note.
Commercial and investment arbitration, enforcement, and Pakistan's 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.
Two CEDI Arbitration Roundtables (20–25 persons, Chatham House, Karachi and Lahore); the annual Pakistan Arbitration & Investment Day co-located with PFIS 27; the first Pakistan Arbitration Note (an annual enforcement tracker).
FDI architecture and deal structuring in the SIFC era.
How Pakistan attracts and governs strategic capital: SIFC and Board of Investment architecture, privatisations and concession design, Gulf sovereign co-investment, cross-border M&A structuring under security and competition constraints, and what foreign investors actually ask before committing.
The flagship PFIS 27 forum (April 2027, Islamabad), the platform's anchor event; the opening keynote and Promote & Protect panel.
Partnership positions across all four pillars are exclusive and capped by design.