Est. 1996 · Karachi HQ · Dubai office
AboutLegato8.
We are a UAE-based advisory firm founded in Karachi in 1996 and now serving clients across the Gulf from our Dubai office. Three decades of cross-border work across tax, audit, finance, and law.
Where we work
Dubai · Al Garhoud Star Building. Karachi · Progressive Center, PECHS.
Mission · Vision · Values
What we mean by our work.
Mission
Empower UAE businesses to thrive with clear, evidence-led tax, audit, and legal advice — tailored to their structure and the regulatory environment we operate in.
Vision
To be the cross-border advisory firm of record for FTA-registered businesses across the Gulf and South Asia.
Values
Excellence, transparency, and integrity — operationalised as a signed deliverable, a fixed fee, and an open working-paper trail.
Principles
Four things that hold across every engagement.
01
Signed by the partner.
Every report carries a chartered accountant or advocate's signature — not an associate, not a partner-in-name.
02
Fixed scope, fixed fee.
Engagements are scoped before they are quoted. We don't bill by the hour for advisory work the client wants priced.
03
Cross-disciplinary by default.
Tax, audit, finance, and legal share one room. When a question crosses domains, the same team sees it through.
04
Evidence over assertion.
Working papers, primary records, independent verification. The deliverable is built to hold up under regulator or counsel scrutiny.
1,900
Established
Karachi HQ, Dubai office
0+
Years experience
Cross-border advisory
FTA
Verified Tax Agents
Federal Tax Authority registered
0
Sectors
Banking · M&A · Real Estate · Oil · more
About the founder
Shoaib Ahmed Faridi, Chief Executive Officer · Founder
Indirect-tax expert. Sole authorised translator of the Sales Tax Act 1990 for the FBR since 1998. Advocate of the Sindh High Court. KCCI Honorary Advisor since 2000.
Read the full profile →