R.M.S. Azam was educated at The King's School, Ely in Cambridgeshire, England. He did his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science, History and Economics from Government College, Lahore and his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) with Honours from the University of London. Whilst in London, Mr. Azam attended the famous Bentham Lectures in Jurisprudence at Bentham House, University College London.

Mr. Azam was enrolled as an Advocate in 2000 and as an Advocate of the High Courts in 2002. Mr. Azam commenced his law practice in Lahore as an Associate at Walker Martineau Saleem, Advocates & Legal Consultants (associated with Walker Martineau of 64 Queen Street, London, a solicitors firm established before 1868, now merged with Penningtons Solicitors LLP). After spending some time in independent practice and, later, as an Associate at Az Zaman, Advocates & Legal Consultants, Islamabad, where he gained expertise in corporate, energy and regulatory laws, he rejoined Walker Martineau Saleem, Lahore as an Associate on 1 February 2001 where he continued as such till 31 January 2004.

During his three-years at Walker Martineau Saleem, Mr. Azam had the privilege of working under the guidance of some of the leading lawyers, judges and jurists of Pakistan including the late Mr. M. Saleem Sahgal, Barrister-at-Law, Mr. Justice (Retd.) M.S.H. Quraishi and Mr. Justice (Retd.) Fazal Karim, both former Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Mr. Justice (Retd.) K.M.A. Samdani, formerly of the Lahore High Court. At Walker Martineau Saleem, Mr. Azam specialized in banking laws, corporate and commercial laws, employment, labour and industrial relations laws and legislative drafting. He also headed the Firm’s Banking Courts Litigation Group between 1 January 2002 and 1 February 2004 during which he was responsible for managing, conducting and appearing in over 150 cases in the Federal Banking Courts, Lahore.

On 1 February 2004, Mr. Azam co-founded Azam & Rai, Advocates & Legal Consultants at Lahore.

Mr. Azam has appeared regularly before various judicial, semi-judicial and quasi-judicial fora including the High Courts, Banking Courts, District Courts, Civil Courts, Labour Courts, Accountability Courts, the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), the National Tariff Commission (NTC), the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) and the Foreign Exchange Adjudicator, State Bank of Pakistan. Mr. Azam has also participated in international commercial arbitration proceedings before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), New York – a division of the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Azam has also been involved in important legislative drafting assignments for the Government of Pakistan and the Government of the Punjab. He drafted the “Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority Ordinance, 2002” as well as the “SMEDA Rules, 2002” for the Government of Pakistan and drafted the “Public Performances (Regulation) Act ” – a law to regulate public performances and to check obscenity – as well as the draft of the “Private Hospitals & Healthcare Establishments (Regulation) Act” – a law to regulate private hospitals and healthcare establishments – for the Government of the Punjab. He was part of the legal team that worked on the project of the Government of Pakistan for the consolidation, simplification and rationalization of Pakistan’s labour laws during the 2001-2002 period. He was also part of the two-member legal team that advised the Federal Ministry of Commerce, Industries & Production and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Manpower & Overseas Pakistanis, Government of Pakistan on the drafting of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 2002, and the drafts of the Conditions of Employment Ordinance and the Wages Ordinance. He has also advised the Ministry of Labour, Government of Pakistan, SMEDA and the Asian Development Bank on the compliance of Pakistani labour legislation with ILO Conventions.

In November 2004, Mr. Azam was appointed Consultant to the World Bank for an assignment with the Investment Climate Department and participated in the Doing Business Report jointly prepared by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C. – a task assigned only to the most competent and leading lawyers of any given country. The Pakistan aspect of this project has been undertaken by only a handful of reputable lawyers from a select group of leading Pakistani law firms. The Doing Business Database provides indicators of the cost of doing business by identifying specific regulations that enhance or constrain business investment, productivity, and growth and provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 145 economies and are developed by the Private Sector Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group in cooperation with Lex Mundi association of leading law firms, the International Bar Association and Yale University's International Institute for Corporate Governance.

In 2006, Mr. Azam represented a Pakistani software development company in international arbitration proceedings before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), New York – a division of the American Arbitration Association. In 2006-2007, Mr. Azam represented a consortium of seven Chinese manufacturing and exporting companies in anti-dumping cases under the WTO regime before the National Tariff Commission of Pakistan.

Mr. Azam has remained a Visiting Lecturer in Banking Laws at the Punjab Law College, Lahore in 2004 where, at first, he designed and taught the Banking Law syllabus for the College’s Certificate in Banking Law programme and, later, in the 2005-2006 Session, he taught Banking Laws as part of the College’s Adjunct Faculty for the University of the Punjab’s LL.B. degree. This was the first time that Banking Law had been designed and taught in Pakistan as part of a formal legal education programme. He has also remained a Visiting Lecturer in Jurisprudence and the Law of Trusts of the University of London External LL.B. (Hons) Programme at the Pak-AIMS Law School, Lahore.

Mr. Azam is the author of various research papers and numerous articles on law and legal issues that have appeared in Pakistan’s national English-language newspapers such as The Nation and professional and academic journals such as the All Pakistan Legal Decisions, the Pakistan Law Journal and Corporate Legal Decisions.

Mr. Azam is the Founder/President of the Pakistan Professionals’ Association – Pakistan’s first inter-professional networking association.

In addition to Pakistan where he currently resides, Mr. Azam has lived in Egypt, the Lebanon, Iraq and England. He has visited the USA, France, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE. He is a member of the Lahore Polo Club and the Pakistan Rangers Polo Club, Lahore where he plays polo in his spare time.