Industry
Private Equity
Fund investment into Bangladeshi companies — structuring, diligence, shareholder protections and exit.
Private capital entering Bangladesh has to solve three problems at once: a holding structure that permits a clean exit, shareholder protections that are enforceable under the Companies Act 1994, and exchange control treatment that allows capital and returns to leave the country.
We advise sponsors, funds and development finance institutions on investment structuring, diligence, subscription and shareholders' agreements, governance, and exit by trade sale or listing.
What we do in this sector
- Investment structuring and holding company analysis
- Legal and regulatory due diligence
- Subscription and shareholders' agreements
- Minority protections, reserved matters and board rights
- Exchange control and repatriation planning
- Exit by trade sale, secondary or IPO
Selected experience
- Bangladesh due diligence for a Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPO.
- Advised global institutional investors on Bangladeshi investments.
Mandates in this sector
Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges · Acquirer's counsel
Acquisition of a strategic stake in the Dhaka Stock Exchange on demutualisation
Mitsubishi · Local counsel
Advice on the potential acquisition of LNG assets in Bangladesh
Ophir Energy · Local counsel
Acquisition of Santos' Bangladesh exploration assets, and the subsequent Medco transaction
Evergreen · Issuer's counsel
Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing
Anwara Chinese Economic Zone / China–Bangladesh Iron & Steel Production Zone · Diligence counsel
Legal due diligence on economic zone development
China Shandong Hi-Speed and Sinohydro · Acquirer's counsel
Acquisition of a 49% stake in the First Dhaka Elevated Expressway
Cementos Molins · Shareholder's counsel
Common shareholder in the Lafarge–Holcim merger
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
Platinum Equity · Acquirer's counsel
Tax due diligence on the Hop Lun acquisition
El Paso · Counsel
Successful corporate tax exemption