The Legal Circle

Practice Areas:

Start-ups & Business Formation, Company Securities law and advisory, Domestic and Cross-Border M&A, Debt & Equity Capital Markets, Projects & Project Finance, Bank Finance, Telecommunications, Ready- Made Garments (RMG) Sector, Agency & Distributorship, Company Law, International & Domestic Commercial Law, Litigation & Arbitration (primarily company & commercial law matters) and Intellectual Property.

Year of Establishment: 2008.

Recognition/Awards & Pro Bono: Listed in the Legal 500 list of law firms both globally and in the Asia- Pacific Region and winner of the 2015 Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards. Recognized as a leading law firm in Bangladesh for Corporate and Finance by Chambers and Partners (2011, 2012 and 2013). Corporate International legal award for “Corporate Law Firm of the Year in Bangladesh 2010.” Exclusive Member of International Law Referral for Commercial Law in Bangladesh.

We are pro bono counsel for various organizations including JAAGO Foundation, BLAST, the Impact Investment Exchange Asia (www.asiaiix.com), Bangladesh on Seven Summits (www.bdon7summits.org), Maya (hwww.maya.com.bd), and One Degree Initiative and Streetwise Foundation (a non-profit foundation that works with street children).

We are also reduced rate counsel to BRAC International (an affiliate of BRAC, the largest NGO in Bangladesh) and have worked with BRAC on re-structuring its operations in Africa and other parts of Asia.

Individual partners of the firm also lead non-profit initiatives such as the first free legal resource website in Bangladesh Think Legal Bangladesh (www.thinklegalbangladesh.com) and the social impact venture called Amadeyr Cloud Ltd (www.amadeyr.org). The Legal Circle also publishes a quarterly law report, Legal Circle Law Reports.