Services
Banking and Financial
Banking & Financial Services lawyers at Law Chamber assist top institutions around the world in navigating an uncertain and rapidly changing regulatory environment. We offer unrivaled breadth and depth of coverage, whether measured by the sorts of legal services supplied, issues discussed, locations served, or client categories served. For further information, please read our Areas of Focus and in-depth pages.
Financial Services and Government Contracts
Our team comprises attorneys whose practice includes actively representing both traditional government contractors and financial service providers, giving them a unique perspective on the difficulties that financial service providers confront while doing business with the government. Our attorneys advise financial services firms on all aspects of government procurement, from the highly regulated process of obtaining a contract to the plethora of regulatory requirements that apply to government contractors (such as affirmative action obligations, unique accounting requirements, and pricing restrictions), to the rules that apply when a government contract and a Federal or state agency disagree. We provide realistic advice to our clients in order for them to make informed judgments about the benefits and drawbacks of participation in public sector procurements. We also have substantial legal experience representing clients in bid objections involving public procurements and contract performance lawsuits against agencies.
Fintech in Bangladesh
Law Chamber in Bangladesh provides its clients with exceptional fintech experience. Our diverse legal team advises a wide range of clients on the numerous legal concerns that occur during the development and implementation of financial technology. We combine strategic regulatory assistance, transactional counseling, and in-depth understanding of the financial services industry in our fintech business. As a result, clients who innovate and operate in the evolving fintech industry can benefit from a complete approach to developing and implementing plans. We have a great track record with both established financial institutions and start-up companies, having acquired, invested in, developed, implemented, and brought to market new financial technologies, platforms, products, and services.
Securities, Mutual Fund and Commodities Activities
In Bangladesh, Law Chamber has represented domestic and foreign bank customers in getting regulatory clearance for, and assisting in the implementation of, programs involving pooled investment vehicles such as investment companies, commodity pools, bank common trust funds, and collective investment funds. We have also worked for domestic and foreign bank clients on a number of authorized securities-related and commodity-related operations, including as advising, private placement, derivative products, riskless principal, and brokerage services. Our attorneys counsel clients on retail non-deposit investment sales activities, such as the development of novel sweep and cash management vehicles, mixed collateral lending products, and the use of branch and non-branch delivery methods.
Business Transactions Involving Financial Institutions
We have been involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions including depository institutions, money transmitters, mortgage banking and other finance organizations, as well as trust companies, investment advisers, and other money managers. We help clients buy and sell various forms of financial assets, including mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and credit card accounts receivables, as well as mortgage servicing rights and technology transfers. Clients rely on our extensive experience to assist them in structuring and negotiating strategic alliances and outsourcing arrangements, including agent bank arrangements, as well as the full range of operational agreements required to support critical functions and key business initiatives, such as data processing, cash management, and product brokerage or distribution agreements.
We have advised BD. and non-BD. banking organizations on potential joint ventures with, and non-control investments in, enterprises engaged in banking and non-banking operations, as well as structuring non-banking entities’ investments in banking organizations. With the growing relevance of financial technology for the financial industry’s future, we have represented both investors and targets in a number of “fintech” ventures. We’ve also helped banks restructure their debt and streamline their operations.
M&A in Bangladesh
Law Chamber in Bangladesh has a world-class worldwide M&A practice that handles public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as private equity transactions in a wide range of industries. Large and small businesses, private equity funds and other financial sponsors, boards of directors, special committees, financial advisors, and other corporate transaction participants are among our clients.
Capital Market
Our Capital Markets team consists of more than 90 lawyers situated in important international financial and industry cities across the world, including Dhaka, London, New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Shanghai, and Sydney. We represent issuers, underwriters, and other financial intermediaries in all of the world’s main financial markets in structuring and executing securities transactions and disclosure matters. Our attorneys are licensed to practice law in the United States, England and Wales, Hong Kong, and Japan, and they frequently work on problems involving securities authorities and exchanges in those jurisdictions.
Law Chamber offers local experience with a national reach in the Bangladesh and US. Capital Markets lawyers in our Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Palo Alto, and San Francisco locations help us provide seamless countrywide and cross-border support to global customers, as well as synergy with other geographies and practice strengths.
Tax law in Bangladesh
The tax practice of Law Chamber in Bangladesh includes more than 60 tax lawyers, including 30 partners, from the United States and Europe. To deliver tax services in numerous countries, our team combines extensive industry expertise and technical proficiency with a practical viewpoint. Our lawyers collaborate seamlessly to assist clients in navigating the tax consequences of a constantly changing business and legal environment around the world.
What distinguishes Law Chamber in Bangladesh is the breadth of our tax capabilities, which enables us to assist our customers in a wide range of sectors that frequently overlap. Sidley is widely regarded as having one of the best tax procedures in investment funds, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, insurance, real estate investment trusts (REITs), securitization, and structured finance. We also provide tax advice in a variety of other areas, such as bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, derivatives, joint ventures, tax planning, legislative and regulatory developments, and state and local tax matters, as well as thoughtful and experienced representation in obtaining rulings and other guidance from tax authorities. We take pride in offering well-thought-out guidance in a timely, efficient manner that represents our clients’ business objectives.
Tax Controversy lawyers at Law Chamber in Bangladesh also represent clients in federal, state, and local tax issues throughout the country. We defend clients at all stages of the administrative process as well as at all levels of the judicial system, from federal and state trial courts to the United States Supreme Court. In litigated cases, we bring a team of seasoned tax litigators who understand both the actual tax issues and how to properly argue a case.
Private Equity & Joint Venture
Law Chamber’s Real Estate practice has been involved in many high-profile private equity and joint venture transactions as the real estate market recovers from the late-2000s downturn and clients seek to either recapitalize existing properties or acquire new properties at attractive pricing. We represent a diverse range of domestic and international clients, including investment banks, private equity and opportunity funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, bank affiliates, public and private REITs, and other similar investment vehicles that own all asset classes of real estate (both individual and portfolio), such as office, retail, multifamily, and industrial/logistics properties.
Our real estate lawyers and supporting practice disciplines are aware on current market trends and well positioned to advise our clients through complicated difficulties that occur during the negotiation of joint venture agreements. Our lawyers structure, negotiate, and design documents suited for each specific endeavor as well as our clients’ investment parameters and structuring requirements, working closely with our colleagues in Tax and ERISA.
FAQ
What is law chamber doing to facilitate energy finance in Bangladesh?
Lawyers in our Global Finance group have extensive experience representing companies as borrowers, as well as financial institutions as agents, arrangers, lenders, and participants, in virtually every aspect of the energy industry, including financings involving oil and gas companies, oilfield service companies, oil and natural gas, refined product and CO2 pipeline companies, electric utilities, merchant electric transmission companies, independent power producers, alternative energy producers, and alternative energy producers. These types of financings include:
- Asset-based lending
Swaps of commodities and interest rates, as well as other derivatives transactions - Cross-border lending
- Financing for equipment
- Financing for energy trading companies
- ESOP financing
- Acquisition and recapitalization financings that are leveraged
- Letters of credit are available.
- Financings through master limited partnerships
- Second-lien and mezzanine financings
- Securitization of crude oil and natural gas
- Project fundingOil and gas financing based on reserves
- Financing for spin-offs
- Sponsor-led funding
- Financing for the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry Financing and refinancing of working capital and fixed assets
- Workouts and reorganization
What does chamber do for Investment funds litigation?
The Legal Chamber Bangladesh’s international Investment Funds Litigation group provides our clients with litigation resources to help them deal with the specific legal and business problems that come with doing business in the investment funds industry. Our investment funds litigation attorneys collaborate closely with leading professionals from the firm’s Investment Funds, Private Equity, Advisers and Derivatives, Corporate M&A, Securities & Derivatives Enforcement and Regulatory, Restructuring, and Securities and Shareholder Litigation practices to provide truly comprehensive and client-focused representation. This collaborative representation method enables our attorneys to better foresee future risk issues, establish solutions for avoiding litigation, and limit inconvenience to our clients.
In civil lawsuits, arbitrations, and internal and government investigations in the United States and overseas, we represent some of the most recognized brands in alternative and traditional asset management. In particular, our firm represents a diverse spectrum of clients in the following capacities:
- Managers of hedge funds
- Investment consultants
- Managers of private equity funds (and their portfolio firms)
- Operators of commodity pools
- Commodity trading consultants
- Broker-dealers
- Members of the boards of mutual funds
Our attorneys have extensive experience litigating cases involving investors, hedge funds, private equity funds, and other alternative investment vehicles, including valuation and fee issues, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraud, claw back claims, suspension of redemptions, shareholder derivative litigation, shareholder disputes, creditor or trustee claims in bankruptcy, and enforcement actions brought by the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, NFA, and the UK’s FCA and SFO.