Doulah & Doulah

Doulah & Doulah  top ranked transactional capabilities supported by strong litigation team.  With 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 it represents world’s largest businesses and works with the biggest international law firms in most of the major transactions in Bangladesh. Recent representative transactions include:

M&A

• Successfully represented Capital Alliance Limited in acquiring a merchant bank
• Successfully represented China Shandong Hispeed & Sinohyrdo in acquiring 49% stake in First Dhaka Elevated Expressway
• Represented Zhenhua Oil in its successful bid of three gas fields in Bangladesh worth USD2billion
• Successfully represented Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchange in a sizeable 25% stake acquisition in Dhaka Stock Exchange for USD119m
• Represented Ophir Energy in its successful bid to acquire Santos Exploration assets followed by its merger with Medco
• Represented Cementos Molins, the common shareholder, in the Lafarge and Holcim merger in Bangladesh

Finance:

• Successfully represented China Exim Bank in its project financing in  USD2.4billion Patuakhali 2x662 MW thermal plant
• Successfully represented Export Development Canada in financing US Bangla acquisition of two new ATR aircrafts
• Acted for ICD of Islamic Development Bank in its USD30m Islamic line to a bank in 2021
• Have been acting for China Development Bank as lender’s counsel in its financing of a toll road project in Bangladesh
• Acted for European Investment Bank in its financing of Dhaka Water Supply Development Project

Power & Energy

• Successfully acted as International Finance Corporation (IFC) & Excelerate Energy local counsel for project development and financing of Maheshkhali LNG Terminal
• Represented Zhenhua Oil in its successful bid to acquire three gas fields in Bangladesh worth USD2billion
• Have been acting for General Electric in developing a 1250MW LNG fuelled Power Plant in collaboration to Bangladesh Power Development Board
• Acting for Tecnosteam Energy in its development of three gas compression station under finance from Asian Development Bank
• Acting for Scatec Solar in its development of a 50MW solar power plant under negotiation for IFC financing
• Acted for all of the latest gas exploration PSC contract awardees including ONGC, OIL, POSCO and Daewoo
• Acted for China National Petroleum Corporation for the deep-sea single-point mooring with double pipe line for the state-run Eastern Refineries Ltd
• Acted for Sinosure in legal due diligence and risk assessment of most of the coal based thermal plants in Bangladesh

Other Infrastructure

• Acted in preliminary feasibility study of Chinese Economic Zone at Anwara in collaboration to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
• Acted in preliminary due diligence for a prospective lender for financing China-Bangladesh Iron & Steel Production Zone
• Have been advising Samsung in Dhaka Airport Third Terminal Construction Project
• Acted for Jan De Nul in its development of Paira Port Project Dredging on PPP basis under collaboration with Paira Port Authority
• Have been advising China State Construction & Engineering Corporation in its participation in a PPP toll road project
• Acted for IHI Corporation in construction of second Kanchpur / Meghna / Gumti Bridges
• Acted for Kerryong in its construction of South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Road being financed by ADB