Consulting

Business Advisory

To benefit from experienced guidance, take advantage of our business advisory services. Our business advisory specialists can help you lead change, handle risk, and embrace the future with confidence, regardless of your industry or challenges.

Forensic Investigations

Our forensic investigation experts specialize in uncovering critical insights to help businesses address financial irregularities, fraud, and misconduct. Leveraging advanced tools and methodologies, we provide clear, actionable findings to resolve disputes, strengthen internal controls, and safeguard your organization’s integrity.

Transaction Advisory

Our experts provide comprehensive guidance to navigate mergers, acquisitions, and critical transactions. With deep insights and rigorous analysis, we help maximize value, mitigate risks, and ensure seamless execution. From due diligence to deal structuring, our tailored solutions empower informed decisions to achieve your strategic goals across industries.

Risk Advisory

We create and maintain reliable and foolproof internal controls and establish a strategic approach to manage your risks. We use an aggressive approach to not only assess your business processes, technology, and data for potential risks, but also to check if your existing methods of control are efficient and sufficient to counter those potential risks.

Financial Accounting & Advisory Services (FAAS)

Our FAAS teams are here to help you keep up with the ever-increasing demands of your stakeholders regarding financial reporting and management. In addition to confronting the agenda of the CFO, we supply the relevant personnel like audit committees, controllers, and treasurers with detailed insight to help them stay compliant with financial requirements that are always evolving and advancing.

Corporate Finance

Drive strategic growth with our corporate finance services. We provide expert guidance on mergers, acquisitions, valuations, and capital structuring to optimize your financial performance.
At Wathiq, we deliver tailored solutions to help you navigate complex financial decisions, unlock new opportunities, and achieve long-term success. With our expertise, your business gains the financial clarity and support needed to thrive.

Corporate Services

We help businesses of all sizes by providing a comprehensive range of services, including company incorporation, secretarial services, and corporate governance. Whether you are looking to set up a new business, maintain compliance with regulations, or streamline your corporate structure, our team has the expertise to help.

We work closely with our clients to understand their unique needs and goals, and develop customized solutions that meet their specific requirements.

Technology Advisory

Make informed strategic decisions to bridge the gap between business and IT to maximize the value of your technology investments and drive your digital transformation. With an ever-evolving technology landscape, organizations face challenges in identifying, assessing, and deploying the right solutions unique to your digital transformations. We understand the strategic objectives that drive your overall business while bringing together deep technology expertise to implement the right solutions. Our Technology Advisory & Consulting leverages our decades of technology expertise with industry insights and a unique set of capabilities built over the years collaborating with some of the world’s leading businesses. We partner with customers to understand business objectives in order to define a robust technology strategy across data, cloud, security, and blockchain for meaningful business outcomes.

Learning & Development

Our expert learning and development consultants provide you, technologies required to help in learning, create learning management systems, and make e-learning easier through better learning cultures and by creating fit for purposes learning programs. Our team of expert trainers can support you in following areas.

Yasir Gadit

Partner – Consulting

Yasir is our leader for the Consulting division. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP). With more than 19 years of experience,

Yasir is passionate adding value to our clients, and is a huge cricket enthusiast. Yasir brings Big 4 experience of the GCC region. He worked with Ernst & Young in UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, where he advised various clients in diversified sectors such as financial institutions, manufacturing, service, construction companies, and many more.

Yasir has also led the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan’s UAE Chapter, as well as various business councils in the UAE.

Haziq Neshat Akhtar

PARTNER – RISK, FINANCIAL CRIMES & TRANSACTION ADVISORY

Haziq Neshat Akhtar leads the Advisory division at athGADLANG & WATHIQ. With over 16 years of experience, he specializes in risk management, forensic audits, corporate advisory, and financial consulting. Haziq is a Fellow member of The Institute of Financial Accountants UK and The Institute of Public Accountants Australia, he also holds a Fellowship with The Institute of Forensic Accountants of Pakistan and is associated with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He further holds specialized qualifications in IT audits, Shariah Audit and Anti-money laundering. He has held key leadership roles in leading firms, including Forvis Mazars, BDO, Grant Thornton, British Petroleum Pakistan, Gerry’s International, and SJG Pharma Group. An entrepreneur at heart, Haziq has delivered impactful projects in internal audits, process re-engineering, ERM, Strategy and research, ESG, Cyber security, valuations, M&A, Buy & Sell Side advisory and feasibility studies across diverse industries. He is passionate about driving ethical and sustainable business practices while delivering measurable value to clients.

Osman Babar

Partner - BPO Services

Osman is our Partner of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services and a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He is a determined, highly motivated, and skilled professional with more than 22 years of experience. An accomplished professional with proven success in establishing performance management, best practices, enhancing business performance through timely and relevant financial planning and management, robust control structures, and financial reporting protocols in alignment with business goals and KPIs. He has also served as a leader in providing assurance services in five service streams for world-class organizations, including Statutory and Internal Audits, Management Assurance, and Financial Accounting & Advisory Services.

Saqib Nisar

Managing Partner

Saqib Nisar has over 25 years of experience in the field of investigations, contract reviews, financial crime, AML and sanctions assessments, audit, accounting, forensics, and related services. He has worked in a range of industries, including construction, logistics, trading and contracting services, and oil & gas sectors. Saqib has worked across multiple jurisdictions, including the Middle East and Gulf region, Western and Central Europe, and Africa. His extensive experience and knowledge of various sectors and regions allow him to provide comprehensive and practical solutions to clients seeking support in financial and related services. Saqib’s wealth of knowledge and experience in financial and related services, along with his ability to understand the intricacies of different industries and regions, make him a trusted advisor to each client’s unique needs.