Background
The firm, established in 1992 as a Kazi & Rahman Associates and in the year of 2004 it has changed name as a Law & Lawyers and finally become Dr Kazi Abdul Mannan & Associates in 2017, is one of the largest law firms in Bangladesh. We provide a comprehensive range of legal services for both national and international clients. Members of the firm work as a close-knit team and actively collaborate on advice and cases as the need arises. The firm’s strength lies not only in the breadth of individual expertise available, but also in more than twenty five years of institutional experience of advice and litigation in key practice areas.The firm, established in 1992 as a Kazi & Rahman Associates and in the year of 2004 it has changed name as a Law & Lawyers and finally become Dr Kazi Abdul Mannan & Associates in 2017, is one of the largest law firms in Bangladesh. We provide a comprehensive range of legal services for both national and international clients.
Members of the firm work as a close-knit team and actively collaborate on advice and cases as the need arises. The firm’s strength lies not only in the breadth of individual expertise available, but also in more than twenty five years of institutional experience of advice and litigation in key practice areas.
Our Firm
Dr Kazi Abdul Mannan & Associates is a full-service commercial law firm which provides legal services to a wide range of premier clients, including local and multinational corporations and financial institutions. Currently one of the largest law firms in Bangladesh with over hundreds learned lawyers, we are consistently ranked as a market leader in Bangladesh for every major practice area, having been involved in numerous challenging, complex and significant deals. Our Associates/Partners are specialists in their areas of practice and many are widely recognised as leading legal experts by clients and peers.
Our Network
With a growing network of associate firms, we are well-placed to advise clients on their business interests in Bangladesh and beyond, in particular, on matters involving UK, EU, USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia,New Zealand, South Africa, Middle East, South-east Asia and the Asian region.
Furthermore, we have strong working relationships with leading law firms worldwide and serve both local and international clients on multi-jurisdictional transactions in global. This experience allows us to take on an effective lead counsel or project manager role in cross-border transactions.
Our Community
Apart from providing legal services, we are committed to acting as a responsible corporate citizen and to sustaining a culture of giving back to the community. We have a pro bono programme which focuses on sharing our expertise and skills with community and charitable organisations, which brings an added dimension to our practice of the law. In addition, we also help individuals through traditional pro bono initiatives, where our lawyers volunteer at the Migration Research, Development and Society of Bangladesh (MRDSB) to provide legal service Victim Bangladeshi Migrants (VBM) at the destination and their household members in Bangladesh. Furthermore, our Firm, as a whole, participates in one or more community engagement projects every year.
Our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) practice is one of the leading practices in its field. We are consistently involved in the most challenging, complex and high profile transactions in Bangladesh and around the region, and we are one of the most recognised M&A practices in Bangladesh.
We advise on and act in a broad range of local and regional transactions, including joint ventures, share and business acquisitions and disposals, corporate reorganisations, privatisations and mergers, leveraged buyouts, schemes of reconstruction and amalgamation, capital restructuring, and private equity investments. Where necessary, we draw on the expertise of our Firm’s other market-leading practices to provide our clients with specialist advice.
Our clients include investment and commercial banks, private equity firms, private firms, listed companies, multinational corporations, government-linked entities and sovereign wealth funds.
Dr Kazi Abdul Mannan & Associates are considered by many to be leading & specialist legal services provider with regards to specialist advisory, drafting and advocacy services in relation to Criminal Prosecution & Defence. Our lawyers can assist you in any kind of Criminal Prosecution by advising and representing you in criminal courts.
The firm has expertise in employment law and provides a full range of professional legal services, including advisory work, drafting and litigation. It has advised foreign companies intending to establish a presence in Bangladesh on employment issues and on compliance with Bangladesh labour and employment law. It has drafted a diverse range of agreements and other legal documents to represent employment relationships, including contracts of service, consultancy agreements and agreements for hiring independent contractors. The firm has been involved in litigation on employment disputes. It has also been involved in public interest litigation to ensure compliance with national labour and workplace safety standards.
Our firm advises migration who intend to migrate to Malaysia, UAE, USA, EU, aUK, Australia, Canada and so on for permanent settlement.
As the lifestyle in Bangladesh is changing fast; family and marital disputes are in rise. Dr Kazi Abdul Mannan & Associates is an obvious choice for you if you are facing and family disputes or you are considering the options of divorce and you need to know what happens to your children, to your home after divorce. More than 10 million Bangladeshi live abroad who were married in Bangladesh under the laws of Bangladesh and often they are confused about how can they execute a divorce. We are confident that we can advise you about marriage, divorce, child custody, marriage between persons of different religions, marriage between Bangladeshi and foreigner, divorce of Bangladeshi living abroad, Divorce of persons who were Bangladeshi at the time of marriage but now have migrated and changed nationality etc.
Our Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) practice is widely recognised as the pioneer and market leader in the REIT, business trust and private property fund space in Bangladesh. We have an extensive and unparalleled track record of overseeing the successful completion of numerous ground-breaking and innovative transactions involving various sectors of real estate and infrastructure.
Our expertise covers the entire range of capital market and financing arrangements in the REITs and business trust space. To date, we have been involved in almost all of the initial public offerings, introductions, listings, secondary offerings and medium term note/convertible bond issues by Bangladesh REITs and property business trusts. We have also advised on their subsequent acquisition of assets and funding activities. We are involved in highly complex and novel transactions, including hybrid/structured products, perpetual securities as well as Shariah compliant REITs and private funds.
Our clients include large property developers, local and multinational corporations, government-linked entities, banks, financial institutions, global property funds, corporate trustees and accredited/institutional investors. We are also regularly consulted by regulators, industry bodies and leading players with regard to reviewing or enhancing the relevant regulatory or legislative regime.
Free Consultation: 15 mins
Free Consultation: 15 mins
