Finance & Projects
Banking & Insurance
Regulatory and transactional advice for banks, non-bank financial institutions and insurers operating in Bangladesh.
- Chambers Global 2026 · Band 1, Corporate & Finance
- The Legal 500 · Tier 1, Banking & Finance
Banking in Bangladesh is supervised by Bangladesh Bank under the Bank Company Act 1991 and a dense layer of circulars; insurance sits with the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority under the Insurance Act 2010. Both regimes move by circular as much as by statute, and compliance is a continuous exercise rather than a one-off opinion.
We advise banks, NBFIs, insurers and their counterparties on licensing and prudential matters, product documentation, trade finance and documentary credit, bancassurance and distribution, and on the disputes that arise out of all of them.
How we help
- Licensing, prudential and regulatory advice
- Documentary credit, trade finance and guarantee disputes
- Loan, syndication and participation documentation
- Insurance and reinsurance contracts; claims and coverage disputes
- Anti-money-laundering and sanctions compliance programmes
- Product launches, bancassurance and distribution arrangements
Representative matters
- Acted on a secured lending for Royal Bank of Canada.
- Advised Commerzbank on money market and OTC product matters.
- Acted on a US$30m syndicated financing for Grameenphone.
Mandates in this practice
Asian Development Bank · Lender's counsel
Limited-recourse syndicated financing
Grameenphone · Counsel
Syndicated financing
Royal Bank of Canada · Counsel
Secured lending
Commerzbank · Counsel
Money market and OTC product matters
Recent changes in the law
Commercial Courts Act 2026
Parliament enacted the Commercial Courts Act 2026, replacing the ordinance of 1 January 2026 and establishing designated commercial courts across the country. Their jurisdiction covers commercial contracts, banking, insurance, company matters and intellectual property disputes, with court-annexed mediation and fixed periods for hearings. Where a claim should now be filed is a question to settle before issuing proceedings.
Our writing on this
- Security for non-recourse infrastructure finance in Bangladesh
A limited-recourse lender in Bangladesh is relying on a security package assembled from several statutes and on risk cover that sits outside the package entirely. Both need to be designed together.