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Barrister and strategic adviser operating at the intersection of digital asset regulation, cross-border capital flows, and geopolitical intelligence across MENA, Latin America, and Asia.

Safi Ghauri is the Managing Partner of Esquare Legal and a Partner of Tahota Law Firm (top-100 global, 4,000+ practitioners). A barrister qualified at Lincoln's Inn and registered to practise in Brazil, he advises on digital asset regulation and cross-border transactions across MENA, Brazil, and China — while maintaining a parallel record as a geopolitical analyst with over 300 broadcast appearances and citations in The Independent (UK), Bloomberg Arabic, CNA, and Reuters.

Barrister Safi Ghauri is the Managing Partner of Esquare Legal, a crypto-native cross-border law firm operating across the UAE, Brazil, Pakistan, and China through a partnership with Tahota Law Firm (top-100 global, 4,000+ practitioners, 30+ offices). Qualified at Lincoln's Inn and registered to practise in Brazil, he is based in São Paulo. His landmark cases include Pakistan's largest-ever defamation award, the NRO litigation, the Panama Leaks Election Commission proceedings, representing all associations of Pakistan International Airlines (300,000+ employees) in the PIA privatisation challenge, and a successful cryptocurrency matter before three Supreme Court of India judges. He secured Pakistan's first BNPL licence and established the country's lending fintech sector. He led the RUDA project, one of the largest Chinese overseas infrastructure investments at the time, valued at $4.8 billion. He secured one of VARA's earliest virtual asset licences and has overseen hundreds of millions of dollars in fundraising. He has since obtained dozens of crypto licenses for clients around the world. A political analyst with over 300 broadcast appearances, he trained at Pakistan's National Defense University and serves as PTV World's South America Correspondent. He has delivered invited addresses on the interpretation of Chinese infrastructure contracts to civil service and policy officers. He has spoken at the Horasis Global Summit, COP30, and the European Commission and UNIDROIT's DARTE expert series. He has trained judges and prosecutors for UNODC and panelled at FATF.