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Foreign branch registration and SECP/BOI compliance, project audits, contractor affairs, joint venture accounting and taxation for international contractors and infrastructure businesses operating in Pakistan.
Construction and CPEC-linked work has its own regulatory shape — Board of Investment permissions, provincial tax authorities, contractor affairs with public sector counterparties, and audit standards that sometimes have to satisfy a foreign parent as well as a Pakistani regulator. This is well-worn ground for us, not a first attempt.
We are a foreign contractor about to start work in Pakistan.
Branch registration and Board of Investment permission, before mobilisation rather than during it.
Our project requires an audit to a standard our head office will accept.
Project and contract audits documented to satisfy both the local regulator and a foreign parent reviewing the file.
We are structuring a joint venture with a local partner.
JV accounting and taxation set up correctly at formation, not reconstructed once a dispute makes it necessary.
Our contractor affairs involve a public sector counterparty.
Reporting and coordination structured around what a government counterparty actually requires.
We are not sure which provincial tax authority our contract falls under.
Federal and provincial sales tax exposure mapped before a filing position is taken, not after a notice arrives.
Our finance function in Pakistan barely exists yet.
A branch or JV usually starts with no local finance team — books, payroll and reporting built from that starting point.
All eleven service lines are available to any client. These are the ones genuinely relevant to a construction, infrastructure or CPEC-linked contractor.
Foreign branch registration, SECP and Board of Investment compliance, and the regulatory liaison a new entrant needs before mobilisation.
Statutory and project audits documented to satisfy both the local regulator and a foreign head office reviewing the file.
Federal and provincial tax registration and compliance for contracts that often span more than one jurisdiction.
Building a finance function and joint venture accounting from a standing start, without a full in-country hire.
Joint venture structuring, and the diligence work that comes with bringing in a local partner.
Control testing where a foreign parent, lender or public sector counterparty needs assurance beyond the statutory audit.
Independent review where contractor disputes, subcontractor arrangements or project cost overruns need investigating.
Feasibility and structuring advice before a new project or joint venture is committed to.
Reporting and disclosure support where internationally financed or CPEC-linked infrastructure projects carry their own ESG conditions.
Each of these has its own page setting out the full scope, approach and pricing — this is the set most relevant to construction and CPEC work specifically.
Anonymised, because most of what we do cannot be written up any other way. Named-client work sits behind our clients' own consent, not published here.
More broadly, our representative work in this sector includes Chinese state-owned construction groups, a construction joint venture, and engineering and infrastructure contractors. The fuller list of sectors and engagement snapshots — including this one — is on our Clients & Experience page.
No. Our construction and CPEC work spans state-owned construction groups, joint ventures and smaller engineering and infrastructure contractors — the underlying compliance questions are similar regardless of size, even where the scale of the engagement differs.
It depends on documentation completeness and, for foreign shareholders, the additional verification required — including where documents from overseas need attestation, usually the longest step. We give a realistic timeline once we see what's already in hand.
Yes — this is a large part of what we do in this sector. Statutory and project audit for the Pakistani regulator, structured so the same file also satisfies a foreign parent's own reporting requirements.
Yes, JV accounting and taxation is part of the practice, set up at formation rather than reconstructed once a dispute over the numbers arises.
It usually changes how contractor affairs and reporting need to be structured, and sometimes the tax authority involved. We tell you what's different about that specific arrangement before work starts, not after a notice arrives.
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