Bangladesh

Offers top ranked transactional capabilities supported by strong litigation team. Market leading practice in M&A, finance, corporate, tax, employment and IP matters in industries such as infrastructure, power, energy, banking, finance. manufacturing, FDI, telecom, commercial and so on. Represents world’s largest businesses and works with the biggest international law firms in most of the major transactions in Bangladesh.

Tanjib Alam and Associates is a leading law firm in Bangladesh for commercial arbitration, merger and acquisition, energy project, telecommunication, private equity, loan syndication, foreign direct investment, admiralty and international trade. The firm has recently advised a leading steel conglomerate in Bangladesh and prepared the legal documents to obtain financing facilities worth US$90m, and advised and prepared all relevant legal documents for the transfer of a US$122.43m syndication facility to a leading power generation company - only to mention some of its work in the financial sector. As a leader in M&A, the firm acted as legal advisor and counsel to Robi Axiata Limited on its acquisition of Airtel Bangladesh Limited under a merger scheme. While acting as the legal advisor, the firm carried out legal due diligence and prepared the documentation concerning the merger and acquisition. As the counsel for the merging companies the firm also obtained approval of the scheme from the High Court Division. The merger between Robi and Airtel was the largest merger in the history of Bangladesh. Tanjib Alam and Associates have also advised on several other high-value mergers including the merger of three leading steel manufacturers in Bangladesh, and the merger between three of the leading power generation companies in Bangladesh.

CONSTITUTIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE LAW The Law Counsel represented a group of Supreme Court lawyers in a Public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the use of the Pegasus spyware in Bangladesh. The PIL was filed seeking directions from the Court upon the Digital Security Agency in Bangladesh to investigate into the threats to digital security arising out of the use of the Pegasus software and to take necessary remedial measures under the Digital Security Act, 2018.