Six decades of advising on how Bangladesh actually works.

Most of what we do begins outside Bangladesh. A lender in Beijing, a sponsor in Tokyo, a brand owner in Europe, a fund in Singapore — each needs to know what a Bangladeshi counterparty, regulator or court will actually do, and needs to know it on a timetable set somewhere else.

That shapes how the firm is organised. Our transactional and contentious practices sit together, so a deal that turns into a dispute does not have to change advisers. Matters are staffed across practice areas, because a project financing is simultaneously a tax question, an employment question, a land question and a regulatory one. And we keep a substantial internal database of past matters and a working law library, because much of what determines a Bangladeshi outcome is not published online.

The firm is accredited as a project consultant to the Ministry of Law, and has acted as consultant to the World Bank, USAID and other development institutions — experience that informs how we read a regulator as much as how we read a statute.