Election and Political Law


In the current enforcement environment, corporations, major political donors, lobbyists, and Political Parties can face unprecedented scrutiny of their compliance,  and government ethics laws.

Irfan Mir Halepota’s Election and Political Law Practice is one of the oldest and most prominent such practices in the Pakistan, specially at Karachi. Individuals and Political Parties turn to Halepota for its credibility and sophistication in providing compliance advice and for their most sensitive election law compliance and enforcement matters.

The firm regularly defends individual persons  and political clients in Election matters before the courts of law and Tribunals specially constituted for Election matters.

In addition to our high-profile enforcement practice, we advise numerous  political party committees,  candidates,  and high net-worth individuals concerning compliance with the increasingly complex array of laws governing the political process.

To help our clients keep out of harm’s way, we provide a range of compliance services, including:

  • Forming political parties, and advice concerning governance and compliance.
  • Drafting and implementation of organization-wide political law compliance programs and policies.
  • Representing the clients before the Election Commission.
  • Filing and proceeding cases before Election Tribunal.
  • Representing Clients before Honourable High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan.

We have extensive experience conducting sensitive and highly confidential advices. Our counseling of clients is greatly informed by our deep enforcement and litigation expertise in political law matters.