Vertex Chambers

Vertex Chambers is the only Bangladeshi law firm with an international outpost – Vertex International Consulting (vertexicon.com) located at Sydney, Australia. Our Australian counterpart advises the clients on the laws of Bangladesh and specializes in international commercial arbitration, international taxation and planning, land and development including human rights, safeguarding, sexual harassment elimination, and rights based projects etc., crossover between law and technology and on all aspect of Bangladeshi laws. Recent work of Vertex International Consulting includes advising a Dubai based entity on establishing a US charitable organisation and advising a leading Canadian commercial company on potential money claim against a Minnesota based company and its Bangladesh counterpart for a value of over USD 7 million.

We are a member of Advocates for International Development (A4ID), which links development NGOs with pro-bono legal support through a range of international partners. We have recently assisted The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in the research of gaming and gambling laws of Bangladesh in relation to TNC’s 2021 Global Photo Contest. In a wonderful turn of events, a Bangladeshi participant won the first place in the ‘Water’ category. We also advised Sea Users Association (SUA), a Mauritian NGO in a potential claim against the State of Mauritius for massive oil spillage caused by a vessel crash into the Mauritian coral barrier reef.

A significant part of our clientele includes leading international financial institutions such as the World Bank Group, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Standard Chartered Bank. We represent various companies of the Louis Dreyfus Group in their long standing litigation re international commercial arbitration in Bangladesh. One of our oldest clients is part of the multinational professional services network of firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Our Managing Partner, Barrister Junayed Chowdhury has been ranked as a “Highly Regarded” tax professional for General Corporate Tax matters by ITR World Tax, the world’s leading tax and accounting practice directory.