Doulah & Doulah

Corporate, M&A, Finance, Project Development & Power / Energy

Partner, Leading M&A,  Project Finance  & Infrastructure / Project  Development / PPP lawyer

With a work experience over fiteen years Mr. Doulah is a leading personality for corporate and finance law matters in the region. Project finance and Documentary Credit are his stressed areas and he has advised in a number of major projects in energy / infrastructure sectors. He has also established himself as an authority in the fields of project development with extensive PPP / infrastructure transaction advisory expertise.

Mr. Doulah possesses a market leading practice in M&A and attends major M&A matters in Bangladesh. In 2008 under instructions of World Bank and IFC he acted as a key researcher to compare local corporate governance standards and practices with its OECD counterparts which was later released as a corporate governance assessment report by World Bank. Mr. Doulah is a member of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Tax and AML Research teams and an accredited Lexis author with numerous publications. Some major transactional highlights are provided below.

Acted as local legal counsel for IFC and Excelerate Energy in project development and financing aspects of the first LNG terminal (FSRU) project in Bangladesh at Maheshkhali. So far structured and developed 81+ power projects for clients like General Electric, Blackstone, Golar Power, AES, El Paso etc. Have been Representing major players in developing renewable IPPs such as Sinennergy, Scatec, CMEC, Total, ZTE, Sharp etc. Major M&As includes SZSE / SSE aquisition of Dhaka Stock Exchange, Holcim / Lafarge Merger, Microsoft acquisition of Nokia, Zhenhua's $2bn bid for three gas fields, Ophir acquisition of Santos assets and merger with Medco, AES acquisition of Covanta power assets, BMGF's Bkash divestment to Alibaba Group / Softbank etc. Have been acting in major PPP / infrastructure development projects including all toll road PPPs i.e. First Dhaka Elevated / Dhaka Bypass / RAD Expressways, Payra Port (for JDN), 2nd Kanchpur-Meghna-Gumti Bridges, South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Road, Shahjalal Airport 3rd Terminal project etc. Acted for sponsors/lenders in project development of major economic zones including Chinese Economic Zone at Anwara and China-Bangladesh Iron & Steel Production Zone Acted as Lender's Counsel for IFC, European Investment Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Finnfund, China Exim Bank, China Development Bank, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in a number of projects. Acting for Sinosure in most of the large coal fired IPPs. Acted for all of the latest gas exploration PSC contract awards for ONGC, OIL, POSCO & Daewoo etc. Major lease /asset finance clients include GECAS, Aercape, EDC etc. Major fintech clients include Ant Financial, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook Pay.

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