Emad-ul-Hasan is a practicing Advocate of High Courts and first and only Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan, who is also Fellow of Chartered Accountants and has practically worked in corporate sector.

Emad is in legal profession full time since September 2006, since then he prepared and pleaded various civil as well as criminal matters i.e. Income Tax References, Customs Reference, Special Sales Tax References, Winding-up Petitions, Admiralty Suits, Constitutional Petitions w.r.t. Income Tax, Sales Tax, Sindh Sales Tax on Services, Customs, Anti-dumping duty, F.E.D, SESSI, Cantonment Property Tax etc., Election petitions, Electricity Tariff Petition before NEPRA, First Appeals, Miscellaneous Appeals, High Court Appeals, Appeal to SECP Appellate Bench, Appeal before Collector Customs (Appeals), Applications for setting aside ex-parte orders, Complaint to SECP, Complaint to SESSI, Complaint to Wafaqi Mohtasib, Complaint to Banking Mohtasib, Banking Suits, Insurance Suits, Civil Suits for declaration, direction, injunction, cancellation, recovery, damages etc. property matters, Arbitration, Execution Applications, Criminal Complaints before the Session court, Special Court for Offences in Banks (Financial Matters), Anti-Corruption and Accountability Court.

On advisory side Emad has provided a number of opinions and advices to various companies. He was legal consultant of M/s. Deoakje Construction &  Deoakje Connecting Roads Private Limited i.e. the Concessionaire for the first Public Private Partnership Project (PPPP) under DBFOT (Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer) basis for construction of Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas dual carriage way in Sindh and hence worked on various transaction documents and agreements i.e. Concession Agreement, Project Site Lease, Project Fund Agreement, Subordinated Debt Agreement, MRG, EPC Price Escalation, Funding & Utilization Agreement, Escrow Account Agreement, Senior Facility Agreement, Syndicated Long Term Financing Facility, Share Pledge Agreement, Letter of Hypothecation, Insurance Policies, Performance Guarantee, MRG SBLC, Technical Collaboration Agreement, Corporate Guarantee, EPC Contract, Sub-Contract, IE Agreement, IA Agreement, O&M Agreement, Tenancy Agreement, Lease Agreement, Joint Venture Agreement, General Power of Attorney, etc.

For the legal study of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project in collaboration with Karachi Mass Transit Cell (KMTC)- CDGK, ‘Japan International Cooperation Agency’ (JICA) engaged Emad in 2012 for a 90 hours study to identify the relevant laws, their requirements etc. for BRTS project in Karachi. As a consequence of the study Emad submitted a dossier containing provisions of various laws relating to the project, proposed legal framework and the implementation strategy as well as suggested a series of legal documents i.e. approvals, permission and agreements required from authorities, with contractors, suppliers, vendors etc. to legally support the development and implementation of the project. At the end of the study Emad also drafted ‘The Karachi Metropolitan Transport Authority Act, 2012 (Proposed).

Before joining legal profession full-time in September 2006, Emad worked around 21 years in corporate sector at key positions in reputable organizations in External Audit, Tax Consultancy, Finance/Accounts and Internal Audit. He spent nine years with M/s. A.F.Ferguson & Co., Chartered Accountants (member firm of PWC) in audit and tax departments, worked with United Bank Limited as one of the Financial Controllers and also worked as Chief Accountant at Banque Indosuez (a French Bank), Karachi. He has an extensive internal audit experience at ABV Rock Group (a large Swedish construction) company in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as Head of Audit and Compliance at Meezan Bank Limited (First premier Islamic Commercial Bank of Pakistan) and lastly served as Head of Internal Audit at Pakistan Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation (PICIC).

Emad has special interest in teaching and holding training workshops and till September 2023 he has carried out fifty-three (53) workshops/learning sessions/lectures on various topics including laws. His one-day workshop ‘Legal issues for CFOs and Senior Finance Professionals’ has been held for 13 times at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad attended by around 376 participants in total.

He is also author of the book ‘Lawyers’ Manual- Volume 1 (How to institutionalize legal practice)’ containing policies & procedures for a lawyer’s office to create efficiency and effectiveness in case preparation, case management and other operational matters.