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Chambers is Open Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 6pm and on Saturdays from 10am to 6pm. Vacancies - Head Clerk - Closing Date - 31st August 2010. Leanne Targett-Parker has been selected for the panel of specialist Employment Lawyers on Daniel Barnett's employment website. Jas Chopra has successfully completed her pupillage and has accepted an invitation to join Chambers as a full member from 9th August 2010. Helen Tung started her pupillage on 1st August 2010. |
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Temple Court Chambers has been listed by the Asia-Pacific edition of the directory Legal 500. This is the first non-EU annexe of any British barristers’ Chambers, and the first branch in Bangladesh of any foreign lawyers’ establishment. We offer commercial advice and dispute resolution services from barristers in Dhaka,Bangladesh and London, and from annexes and alliances elsewhere. Our Barristers, as set out below, are based exclusively in our Dhaka annexe and can be consulted regarding any matters of Bangladeshi law. The Head of our Dhaka Annexe is based both in our Dhaka and London offices.
Barristers of the Dhaka annexe are: Anatul Fateh (Deputy Head of Chambers and Head of Chambers, Dhaka)
Practice Areas
Chambers welcomes instructions in commercial litigation and arbitration, public interest litigation, aviation, banking and finance, project finance, securitisation of assets, intellectual property, VAT, customs and income tax, corporate and commercial agreements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, debt recovery, sale of goods, international trade, advertisement and marketing, company incorporation, shareholder disputes, minority shareholders' protection, telecomminucations, crime and land law. Some of the matters in which TCC Dhaka Barristers have worked are listed below: 1. Advised Biman Bangladesh Airlines as borrower under a syndicated loan from 11 banks for USD 114 million. 2. Assisted and advised Biman Bangladesh Airlines in its purchase of 8 passenger aircraft from Boeing Company for USD 1.2 billion. 3. Represented Marka, a local advertising agency, in its acquisition by global advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather. 4. Advised a local IT company bidding for a WiMax licence issued by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. 5. Represented an international advertising agency before the District Court in an action for the unauthorised use of its name and logo. 6. Advised a local financial institution in connection with its USD 1.9 million term loan financing. 7. Advised a local financial institution on its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges. 8. Advised a consortium of local and foreign companies bidding for a power project in Bangladesh under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of Bangladesh. 9. Represented an international NGO in a judicial review before the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh concerning the unlawful acquisition of its property by RAJUK, the development authority for Dhaka. 10. Advised and assisted a hedge fund based in Sweden and Singapore in setting up its portfolio management business in Bangladesh. 11. Advised a local shipping company with respect to the arrest of a ship for unjustified deviation from its agreed route. 12. Advised a major petroleum company in a USD 118 million tax matter involving complex and inter-related issues of fact and law.
Practice Manager Contact Enquiries many be directed to any of our Counsel in Dhaka or to Paresh Chandra Datta, Practice Manager. 7A Ataturk Tower (Road 17 entrance) 22 Kemal Ataturk Avenue Banani, Dhaka 1213 Bangladesh Telephone + 880 2 883 3669 Fax + 880 2 883 3651 Disclaimer : Please note that information provided by Temple Court Chambers in connection with the Dhaka annexe, and any reproduction of any such information, is not intended to be, and does not constitute, a source of advertising, solicitation, invitation, or inducement to create a lawyer-client relationship involving Chambers or any person associated with Chambers. Chambers engages lawyers authorised to practice in relevant jurisdictions, but does not itself practice before any Court in Bangladesh or elsewhere. |