Akhund Forbes has launched Conclavity, a legal AI platform built on Pakistani statutory law, marking a new chapter for the corporate law firm founded eighteen years ago on the idea that a Pakistani firm could operate to the standards of the best practices in London. The platform was developed in-house by the firm’s own lawyers and engineers rather than licensed from an external provider, positioning Akhund Forbes among one of the leading major Pakistani corporate law firms to build such a system internally.
Akhund Forbes has built a reputation advising global technology companies including Meta and Spotify on the Pakistani corporate landscape, alongside handling complex cross border transactions in aviation, real estate and sovereign asset management. The firm’s move into legal AI comes as Pakistan’s broader legal technology landscape has begun expanding, with other platforms such as QanoonAI and PakistanLaw.ai having separately emerged to offer AI powered legal research and case brief tools for lawyers and citizens.
Conclavity is being rolled out to a small group of early adopter clients first, with the firm noting that a specialist product for complex corporate and commercial work has to be shaped around how a business actually runs rather than deployed broadly from the outset. This phased approach suggests Akhund Forbes intends to refine the platform’s capabilities based on direct feedback from initial users working on corporate and commercial matters before expanding access more widely.
The firm has invited companies interested in shaping how Conclavity develops for their specific industry to reach out directly, signaling an intent to build the platform’s capabilities around the needs of particular sectors over time. The launch reflects a broader trend among established Pakistani professional services firms exploring proprietary AI tools built specifically around local legal and regulatory frameworks, rather than relying solely on general purpose AI systems or licensed third party legal technology platforms.
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