Industry
Infrastructure
Roads, ports, economic zones and the PPP framework that delivers them — including lender-side work for multilateral institutions.
Bangladesh's infrastructure pipeline is financed by a mix of sovereign borrowing, multilateral lending and private capital under the Public Private Partnership Act 2015. Each source brings its own procurement rules, safeguard standards and documentation expectations.
We advise on project structuring, concession and construction documentation, land and permitting, and the financing and security packages that sit behind them — acting both for project companies and for lenders.
What we do in this sector
- PPP and concession structuring
- Toll road, port and terminal projects
- Economic zone development and licensing
- Lender's counsel and security packages
- EPC and FIDIC construction contracting
- Land acquisition, resettlement and environmental clearance
Selected experience
- Lender's Counsel to the European Investment Bank on the SASEC Road Connectivity Project.
- Legal due diligence on the Anwara Chinese Economic Zone and the China–Bangladesh Iron & Steel Production Zone.
- Advised on toll road and port PPP projects.
Mandates in this sector
IFC and Excelerate Energy · Transaction counsel
Floating storage and regasification LNG terminal at Maheshkhali — the country's first LNG terminal, including PPP transaction advisory, project development and permitting
European Investment Bank · Lender's counsel
Financing of a SASEC road corridor project
Sinosure and China Exim Bank · Lenders' counsel
Coal-fired independent power projects and related export credit cover
General Electric · Local counsel
Power and energy projects in Bangladesh, including a sublease matter
Asian Development Bank · Lender's counsel
Limited-recourse syndicated financing
SAARC Development Fund · Documentation counsel
Led the documentation team for Fund financing
Evergreen · Issuer's counsel
Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing
Grameenphone · Counsel
Syndicated financing
Royal Bank of Canada · Counsel
Secured lending
Anwara Chinese Economic Zone / China–Bangladesh Iron & Steel Production Zone · Diligence counsel
Legal due diligence on economic zone development
China Exim Bank · Counsel
Project financing of the 2 × 662 MW Payra thermal power plant
BIFFL, China CITIC Bank and China Development Bank · Counsel
Financing of a public–private partnership toll road
DBS · Sponsor's counsel
Financing of the Dhaka North 36 MW waste-to-energy plant
Asian Development Bank · Lender's counsel
50 MW solar project developed by Fourth Partner Energy
ICD, Islamic Development Bank Group · Lender's counsel
Islamic line of finance to a Bangladeshi bank
Export Development Canada · Lender's counsel
Financing of new ATR aircraft for US-Bangla Airlines
IFC, for the PPP Authority · Transaction counsel
Patenga Container Terminal
Samsung · Local counsel
Dhaka Airport Third Terminal; contractor arrangements on the Jamuna and Padma bridges
China Shandong Hi-Speed and Sinohydro · Acquirer's counsel
Acquisition of a 49% stake in the First Dhaka Elevated Expressway
Beringia and Pendekar Energy · Transaction counsel
Acquisition and consolidation of power plants
Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing — Evergreen · Issuer's counsel
Bangladesh counsel on the Evergreen initial public offering
Thaicom · Counsel
Mediation of a satellite claim during UNCITRAL arbitration
GE Capital Aviation Services · Claimant's counsel
LCIA arbitration to recover airline dues
Wilmington Trust · Creditors' counsel
Judgment against an air operator and eleven affiliates
Platinum Equity · Acquirer's counsel
Tax due diligence on the Hop Lun acquisition
Confidential rights holder · Appellant's counsel
Supreme Court judgment recognising parallel imports as trademark use — a landmark for brand owners in Bangladesh