A.B.M. Nasirud Doulah

With 15+ years' seasoned practice acts in corporate, finance and construction law matters, and project finance / development and documentary credit are his stressed areas. Advised in a large number of major projects in energy / infrastructure sectors with extensive PPP / infrastructure transaction advisory experience. Under appointment of World Bank and IFC acted as the key researcher to complete Bangladesh Corporate Governance Country Assessment Report. Attended a good number of significant M&A matters. Member of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Tax and AML Research teams. An accredited Lexis author with numerous publications. Some major transaction highlights are as follows:

• Acted as local legal counsel for IFC and Excelerate Energy in project development and financing aspects of the first LNG terminal (FSRU) project in Bangladesh at Maheshkhali.

• So far structured and developed 81+ 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.

• 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.

• Have been acting in major PPP / infrastructure development projects including all 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

• Acted as Lender's Counsel for IFC, European Investment Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Finnfund, China Exim Bank, China Development Bank, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in a number of projects. Acting for Sinosure in most of the large coal fired IPPs.

• Acted for all of the latest gas exploration PSC contract awards for ONGC, OIL, POSCO & Daewoo etc.

• Major lease /asset finance clients include GECAS, Aercape, EDC etc. Major fintech clients include Ant Financial, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook. With extensive understanding of capital/money markets, represent global institutional investors like Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Blackrock, etc.