Dhaka, Bangladesh
15+ years' seasoned practice in energy, corporate, finance and construction matters with project finance / development and documentary credit as stressed areas. Advised in major projects in energy / infrastructure sector with extensive PPP / infrastructure transaction advisory experience. Key researcher to complete Bangladesh Corporate Governance Country Assessment Report for IFC. Attended a number of significant M&A matters. A Lexis author and member of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Tax and AML Research teams. Transaction highlights are as follows: • Legal counsel for Excelerate Energy in project development and financing aspects of the first LNG terminal (FSRU) project in Bangladesh. Acted for a lender in the second LNG terminal (FSRU) project. Acted for all of the latest gas exploration PSC contract awards for ONGC, OIL, POSCO & Daewoo etc. • Structured and developed 90+ power projects for clients like General Electric, Blackstone, Golar Power, AES, El Paso etc. Have been Representing major players in developing renewable IPPs such as Sinennergy, Scatec, CMEC, Total, ZTE, Sharp etc. • Local counsel for ADB's trade finance matters in Bangladesh. Acted as Lender's Counsel for AFD, IFC, European Investment Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Finnfund, China Exim Bank, China Development Bank, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in numerous projects. Acting for Sinosure in most of the IPPs. • Acted for IFC in two PPP transaction advisory mandates for LNG terminal and Port container terminal. Other major PPP / infrastructure development projects include major toll road PPPs i.e. First Dhaka Elevated / Dhaka Bypass / RAD Expressways, Payra Port (for JDN), 2nd Kanchpur-Meghna-Gumti Bridges, South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Road, Shahjalal Airport 3rd Terminal project etc. Acted for sponsors/lenders in project development of major economic zones including Chinese Economic Zone at Anwara and China-Bangladesh Iron & Steel Production Zone. • Major M&As includes SZSE / SSE aquisition of Dhaka Stock Exchange, Holcim / Lafarge Merger, Microsoft acquisition of Nokia, Zhenhua's $2bn bid for three gas fields, Ophir acquisition of Santos assets and merger with Medco, AES acquisition of Covanta power assets, BMGF's Bkash divestment to Alibaba Group etc. • Major lease /asset finance clients include GECAS, Aercape, EDC etc. Major fintech clients include Ant Financial, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook. Also represent global institutional investors like Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Blackrock, Fonterra etc. on capital market.