Tanjib Alam and Associates

In today’s legal environment, arbitration and mediation often supplement traditional litigation in courts as preferred mechanisms for the resolution of disputes confronting our business clients. While arbitration and mediation are sometimes encompassed within the concept of Alternative Dispute Resolution, there are many instances where contractual or other legal requirements make these processes the only means by which claims can be formally asserted and resolved. In other instances, however, clients have the option of choosing how to most effectively press and economically resolve disputes that have arisen.

Managing and resolving disputes outside of, or as a supplement to, traditional court litigation is an important part of our practice at TAA. We have successfully handled numerous individual cases, participate in key organizations which structure and administer the dispute resolution processes, serve as neutrals and party-appointed arbitrators and create dispute resolution programs for the more efficient management of routine conflicts that are inevitable in any large organization.

Arbitration and mediation typically bring disputes to resolution without appeals or other prolonged judicial proceedings. There are occasions, however, where judicial challenges are imposed to address issues relating to the scope and enforceability of the dispute resolution process. In addition, there are other cases where collateral or appellate litigation inevitably occurs, whether justified or not. We are also well equipped to handle these related judicial proceedings, and have been lead counsel in some of the most well-known Supreme Court and Appellate cases in this area.

Regardless of how or where disputes initially arise, our commitment is to resolve them efficiently and economically, in partnership with our clients. TAA lawyers recognize that effective advocacy comes in many forms, and that clients are best served when they can select the most appropriate means of resolving their dispute from an array of available options.

Reflecting the diversity of the firm’s client base, we have handled significant commercial arbitration cases in a wide spectrum of industries and business situations.

A branch of civil law, commercial law often deals with branches of private and public law. It often regulates international trade, hiring practices and the manufacture and sales of consumer goods, governing business and commercial transactions. Tanjib Alam and Associates carefully guides its clients through legal issues spanning through multiple industries, achieving success in every aspect.

The firm aids its clients on all facets of inbound and outbound immigration, such as work permits and visas, workforce mobility and other regulatory changes. The firm also provides its clients with variegated services featuring personal immigration, such as student, refugee and publicly funded immigration issues.

Our experience in the insurance service industry includes the handling of traditional corporate and financing transactions for the insurance industry, such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, formation and capitalization of new insurance companies, public and private debt and equity financings and complex insurance company investment transactions.

Our clients include various life, health, property & casualty, mortgage and financial guarantee insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance brokers, commercial banks, investment banking firms, investment advisors, private equity firms, hedge funds and regulatory agencies.

TAA lawyers frequently assist clients making a variety of types of business decisions concerning patents. Our lawyers have performed patent assessments in a wide variety of contexts, including both offensive or defensive litigation preparation, freedom to operate and other types of patent risk assessment, in- and out-licensing of patents, IP due diligence in merger or acquisition efforts, and patent assessments incidental to decisions to invest in product development. We have conducted patent assessments in virtually all fields of technology, including electronics, integrated circuits, computer hardware, software, networking, telecommunications, business methods, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, materials science and chemical manufacturing and process technologies.

Our lawyers draw upon their extensive litigation experience, their knowledge of the technology at issue, and their experience in patent law and practice when they assess patents for their clients. This enables our lawyers to provide insightful “real world” assessments of individual patents or entire patent estates. We believe this provides significant value to clients when they make business decisions based on those patents.

Trademark Litigation
We have vast experience representing diverse clients defending and prosecuting trademark infringement claims in many venues across the nation. Such cases often begin with an expedited demand for temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions. Our lawyers are adept at handling such fast-paced litigation and bring a special level of focused experience to these complex matters.

Our trademark litigation experience has also covered a wide variety of consumer products, from computer software to book titles to tractors. Our group is active in Internet-related trademark claims, including both prosecuting and defending claims of infringement arising out of Internet-based activities.

TAA has one of the largest Labor and Employment practices of any full-service firm in Bangladesh. We recognize that it takes more than legal acumen to help solve our clients’ legal problems. We address our clients’ legal issues in the broader context of their business operations and help them achieve solutions that appropriately manage their legal risks.

As a result of our approach and our wide range of legal services, our Labor & Employment lawyers represent a broad client base, including local and foreign manufacturers; banks and other financial institutions; private equity firms and other investment entities; utilities; railroads; airlines; services firms; healthcare providers; internet and other technology companies; colleges and universities; and charitable institutions; and governmental agencies.

We appreciate that our clients’ interests often are best served by avoiding litigation in the first place. Accordingly, our lawyers provide sophisticated counseling on a wide range of issues to help them meet that objective, including:

• Advising on compliance with the ever-expanding body of laws applicable to employers, including laws concerning discrimination and harassment, employee disabilities and leaves, proper overtime classification of exempt and non-exempt employees under overtime laws, background checks and privacy issues;
• Advising on reductions in force and other employee separations and discipline, including “adverse impact” reviews;
• Conducting and advising on sexual harassment investigations and other internal investigations;
• Drafting and negotiation of employment-related agreements and plans, including executive employment contracts, retention agreements, noncompetition and other restrictive covenants, separation agreements, arbitration agreements and bonus and severance plans;
• Preparation of employment policies, such as employee handbooks, codes of conduct and electronic communications policies;
• Counseling on all aspects of labor-management relations, ranging from negotiation of labor agreements to advising on representation elections to handling of strikes and other disputes;
• Advising on the effective use of and representation of clients in, arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

We leverage the advantages that only a full-service firm can offer and work with our colleagues in the firm’s Securities, Tax, Employee Benefits, Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy, M& A, Executive Compensation and other practice areas to handle the full range of legal issues that arise in the corporate and other business transactions and restructurings. We also have substantial experience in the employment and labor aspects of corporate bankruptcies and other restructurings. We assist in preparing incentive plans and agreements to help key individuals stay motivated; assist with impact and disparate treatment analyses; advise on legal restrictions on the use of retention and severance provisions in bankruptcies; represent debtors and creditors in contested hearings to approve or reject employment, compensation, union and benefits agreements and plans, and in plan confirmation proceedings; and counsel and represent clients in related union negotiations.

TAA’s Real Estate practice represents lenders, investors, owners and developers in a wide range of real estate transactions and litigation all over Bangladesh.

In both litigation and transactional engagements, our team utilizes a cross-disciplinary approach. TAA lawyers from many practice teams work together to structure transactions and shape litigation to achieve our clients’ goals.

The preeminent position of many of our clients, the number and variety of transactions and TAA’s strong presence in the capital markets give our Real Estate practice team extensive experience in some of the most creative and sophisticated transactions in the business. Our breadth and depth of experience give us a special perspective on the risks and opportunities our clients face today. This perspective and our ability to draw on our worldwide resources, including our real estate lawyers, enable our team to bring both the creativity and the practical skills necessary to accomplish our clients’ objectives. We seek to bring value to our clients in every transaction.

TAA includes real estate litigators, trial lawyers and bankruptcy lawyers well-versed in the complexities of real estate transaction structures and experienced in the successful defense, prosecution and resolution of disputes in the courts and through alternative dispute resolution.

Recent events have led to a great demand for workouts and restructuring assistance, an area that leverages our deep transactional as well as litigation and bankruptcy experience. We have supported our long-term and new clients in understanding their options regarding distressed assets and troubled portfolios, and have helped them resolve construction loan issues, extension option disputes, underperforming loans and many other situations.

Our clients include investment banks, international and national banks, opportunity and private equity funds, pension trusts and their advisors, publicly and privately-traded homebuilders, hotel companies, institutional, corporate and individual real estate investors, developers, owners and operators.