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Arif Imtiaz

Arif is an advocate of Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He has completed his masters in laws from Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and bachelor of law from university of London. He specializes in banking and international finance, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate work, power and energy, infrastructure, international arbitration and litigation work and has worked in Bangladesh and England. He is member of Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, UK, Bangladesh Bar Council, Supreme Court Bar Association and Dhaka Bar Association. Arif has advised and represent some of the leading international law firms and corporations on various Bangladeshi legal issues on a variety of transactions. He has closely worked with Allen & Ovary, Clifford Chance, Mayer Brown and some other big international law firms..

Recent Notable Engagements:

  • Regular contributor of Doing Business of World Bank since 2010;
  • Legal advisor at MGH Group, Bangladesh.
  • Advised Pepsico on the establishment of plant in Bangladesh.
  • Advised Proparco, the subsidiary of the French Development Agency dedicated to financing the private sector, on tax exemption of interest of loan.
  • Advised Hanbo Enterprise, a concern of Honda in preparing a due diligence checklist.
  • Advised Asian Development Bank (ADB) on purchasing Certified Emission Reduction (CER) unit from WWR Bio Fertilizer Bangladesh Ltd. and Waste Concern both concern of World Wide Recycling BV of the Netherlands. Also conducted due diligence on WWR Bio Fertilizer Bangladesh Ltd.
  • Advised and represented MV Western Charm in the court for release of arrest of the vessel and subsequent auction sale.
  • Advised MV Rio Gold, MV Thepse on matters of arrest and auction and drafting various agreements.
  • Advised Agoda in relation to a major dispute with a Bangladeshi entity.
  • Acted for International Lease Finance Corporation in a winding up petition against GMG Airlines in Bangladesh.
  • Advised Oxfam Bangladesh in relation to updating employee policy in accordance with Bangladesh Labour Act 2013.
  • Advised Mayer Brown LLP (“Mayer Brown”), a law firm established in the United States, representing International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) in a cross-border supply chain receivable purchasing program;
  • Advised Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore on matters of Bare-boat Charter hire, providing legal advice on mortgage and registration of sea going vessels, repatriation of foreign remittance involved in such transactions, rights and liabilities in cases of charter contract assignments, insurance, etc.;
  • Advised Standard Chartered Bank London on shipping and admiralty matters in Bangladesh, providing legal advice on ship registration in Bangladesh, ship mortgages and their legal implications, related restrictions and limitations, parallel ship registration, trade restrictions and requirements, ship deregistration, provisional registration of ships in Bangladesh, etc.;
  • Advised Alstom Limited in relation to a project where Alstom proposes to bid for a contract for construction of a gas based Combined Cycle Power Plant of 150 MW in Bangladesh wherein the customer was a state utility company incorporated under laws of Bangladesh;
  • Acted on behalf of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), India in connection to power project with Bangladesh Power Development Board Haripur, Sylhet in Bangladesh by providing technical, financial and documentation assistance to;
  • Advised a Malaysian power generation company in relation to bidding of tender evaluation process Rental Power Contract and Meter Equipment tender etc. Drafting and Negotiation of PPA, IA, LLA, rental etc. contracts for the Government. Legal Opinion on Electricity Act 1910 etc. and arbitration matter in Investigation of Complaint in the matter of Rural Electrification Board;
  • Advised NTPC, India in connection with 1320 MW coal based power plant in Khulna, Bagherhaat; the biggest power plant project ever in Bangladesh. This engagement involves advising on various legal issues like drafting of agreements, negotiation, overall risk analysis of projects, vetting of documents, execution of agreements between the parties etc.;
  • Worked with Allen & Overy for a Telecom company in Bangladesh in relation to redenomination of shares, transfer of pledged shares with Standard Chartered Bank;
  • Acted as legal advisor of International Finance Corporation (IFC), with respect to its recent joint venture with a Bangladeshi company and Waterhealth International, Inc. to develop, construct and operate 50 community water systems projects;
  • Advised Discovery Channel Asia on operating licenses and distribution agreements, exhibition agreements; co- production, pre-sales and territorial licenses; location and inter-party agreements; television program and format licensing; merchandising and promotion agreements in Bangladesh;
  • Advised Research in Motion (RIM), a Canadian telecommunication and wireless equipment company (best known as the developer of the BlackBerry smartphone) for marketing of Blackberry products and facilities in Bangladesh via press, media and other available sources. Also advised Blackberry for printing and packaging of their product, the contents of the packaging;
  • Advised Microsoft Corporation, Bangladesh Office on various issues of raids by law and order enforcement authority and foreign exchange transaction and repatriation from Bangladesh;
  • Advised Facebook on regulatory advice on telecommunication/media/technology, content provider /application developer guideline in Bangladesh, licensing, permitting or registration requirements;
  • Advised Accenture on IP, transactional, regulatory issues, outsourcing agreements, privatizations etc.;
  • Advised and acted as the legal advisor of Beijing Voson, International Intellectual Property Attorney Co. Ltd on various issues of copyright protection and trade mark registration in Bangladesh;
  • Advised and acted as legal advisor of Indofil Industries Ltd, a sister concern of K. K. Modi Group India on Trade Mark registration and registration of various entity e.g. branch office, liaison and company incorporation in Bangladesh;
  • Advised KPMG for Siemens Bangladesh in relation to various legal issues, such as human resources, immigration of foreign employees in Bangladesh, licensing, securing private and public financing, contractual advice on building networks and advice on regulatory matters;
  • Acted as Legal Adviser of Isolux Corsan in relation to establishment of branch office for power plant in Khulna, Bangladesh and preparing various documentation for application and approval from different offices. Also provided various legal opinions on tax and VAT issues, repatriation of salary, sales proceed and capital, work permit of foreign employees;
  • Worked for ACWA Power in connection with due diligence and takeover of three major power plants in Bangladesh by ACWA Power. Our advice included providing opinion, vetting of power purchase agreement, land lease, rental agreement, loan agreements, various approvals and finance documents;
  • Worked with Clyde & Co. in relation to a due diligence report of Omera Petroleum Ltd. for BB Energy Holdings N.V.;
  • Worked on a due diligence report for Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in the matter of taking over of Yokohama Tape Co., Ltd. by Sankei Co., Ltd. in Bangladesh;
  • Advising Honda Motors Ltd. Japan, in establishing a subsidiary in Bangladesh;
  • Worked for Anderson Mori & Tomotsune in relation to a joint venture of insurance company and a power project in Bangladesh with Taiyo Life Insurance Company, the largest life insurance company in Japan.
  • Acted for Turkish Airlines Inc., as legal advisor;
  • Advised various banks in Bangladesh relation to different matters;
  • Work on a regular basis with several international law firms globally which includes Allen & Overy, Evershades, Mayer Brown LLP, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Shook Lin & Bok, Kelvin Chia, White & Case, KPMG etc.