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Legal Secretary: Belle Dahilig
Overview
Aamer Ravji recently joined Chamblee Ryan as of-counsel. Aamer is an experienced litigator and commercial transactional lawyer. Aamer’s main objective in practicing law is to provide clients with high quality and aggressive legal representation with personalized, novel, creative, and cost-effective practical solutions to their legal needs. Aamer’s experience covers a wide array of industries including insurance defense, energy, hospitality, mercantile, retail, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, real estate, and financial that involved high dollar complex commercial litigation, transactional, regulatory oversight, and corporate governance, as well as venture funding through public-private partnerships. Aamer has represented clients in:
- Arbitration
- Breach of Contract
- Business, Commercial, and Other Civil Litigation
- Constitutional law & Civil Rights
- Fiduciary Litigation
- Hotel and Hospitality
- Oil and Gas Litigation
- Partnership Disputes / “Business Divorce”
- Real Estate Litigation
- Shareholder Oppression
Since practicing law, Aamer has worked for nationally recognized law firms such as Godwin Gruber, Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors (f/k/a Bickel & Brewer), and Dentons US LLP. Aamer has successfully tried cases as first and second chair, and due to his knowledge and experience in litigation, Aamer has also counseled clients in corporate governance and transactional matters. Additionally, because of his educational background in medicine before attending law school, Aamer has been an invaluable asset to several clients in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries.
Aamer is also currently the managing partner of The Ravji Law Firm, P.C. d/b/a Ravji Law. In addition to his passion for practicing law, Aamer is married and has three children and enjoys his time with family, playing tennis, and engaging in high intensity workouts. Aamer was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and became a U.S. citizen in 1995.
Notable Litigation Experience
- Petrotel, Inc. v. Yukos Oil Company (International Arbitration, Moscow, Russia) (2007) – Ravji was lead trial counsel for a premier oil and gas consulting company that is a leader in oil and gas exploration and production worldwide. The dispute involved a breach of contract pursuant to which the client was owed over $11 million in consulting fees. Ravji successfully obtained the full outstanding balance owed to the client through artful negotiation without engaging in the adversarial process.
- Naseer Nayani v. Horseshoe Entertainment, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division – Civil Action No. 3-06-CV-1540-M (2006) – Ravji was lead trial counsel for a client who was a patron of the Horseshoe Entertainment in a dispute arising from defendant securing a defective default judgment against the client in Louisiana that negatively impacted the client’s business and credit worthiness causing the client to lose a lucrative real estate investment opportunity overseas. Ravji, after successfully subjecting Horseshoe Entertainment to personal jurisdiction in the State of Texas, was able to secure an out-of-court settlement for the full amount of damages suffered by the client plus attorneys’ fees and allowable court costs.
- Unicon International (Pvt) Limited, et al. v. Walls Industries, Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division – Civil Action No. 3-08-CV-245 (2008) – Ravji was lead trial counsel representing two of the largest textile manufacturers from Pakistan against a U.S. based publicly traded company. The dispute involved several millions of dollars in damages arising from the unlawful termination of a contract by the U.S. company. Ravji successfully obtained an out-of-court settlement for the full contract price owed to his clients, plus attorneys’ fees and expenses.
- Napo Pharmaceutical, Inc. v. Glenmark Pharmaceutical, Ltd. (American Arbitration Association, New York, New York) – Ravji as lead trial counsel for a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical company brought claims against an overseas generic drug manufacturer for failure to timely manufacture, commercialize, and distribute a licensed novel drug, and was successful in preventing the termination and nullification of the contract and compelled the specific performance of the contract.
- Kaz Meyers Properties, LLC, d/b/a North Creek Kaz Meyers, et al. v. Nuran, LLC, in the 44th Judicial District Court of Dallas County, Texas – Cause No. DC-20-17067 — Ravji Law and Shamoun & Norman, secured a unanimous jury verdict for the defense Nuran, LLC in a Texas fraudulent transfer case brought by plaintiffs. The jury rendered a take nothing judgment against plaintiffs who were seeking over $5.5 million in actual damages.
Notable Transactional And Corporate Advisory Matters
- Aamer represented an oil and gas exploration company in securing an exclusive petroleum sharing agreement with the Government of the Sultanate of Oman for onshore and offshore blocks.
- Aamer represented an oil and gas exploration company through all phases of securing securities backed debt financing and political risk insurance policy through the United States International Development and Finance Corporation (f/k/a Overseas Private Investment Corporation).
- Aamer represented a publicly traded holding and real estate REIT as the due diligence counsel in the acquisition of thirty-two commercial real estate assets for a total acquisition value of $850 million.
- Aamer represented several privately held commercial petroleum distribution companies with an average of 150 million gallons of annual distribution of refined petroleum products in an acquisition by a publicly traded entity.
- Aamer represented one of the largest retail distributor of prepaid calling cards with operations in all fifty states in matters relating to corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and transactional.
- Aamer represented one of the largest international money transfer companies with business operations in all fifty states and South America.
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Languages
English
Urdu
Hindi
Punjabi
Gujrati.