Our vision is to become the pre-eminent law firm in Bangladesh by providing legal services to international standard in a commercial and responsive manner. Day by day our market leading presence and experience, combination of national and international lawyers making us the first choice among the leading national and international corporate and financial instructions looking for Bangladesh legal advice. We are proud to have attained this position and remain determined to maintain it.
To render professional, efficient and personalized legal services to our clients whilst maintaining the highest standard of integrity and excellence.
To serve professionally, efficiently, excellent and high quality legal services to our client’s satisfaction and also to maintain the highest standards of integrity, efficiency and responsiveness in all our work.
We increase our capacity by outsourcing when need arises. We also retain close ties with our accomplished alumni of over ten Advocates who lend strategic support in selected briefs. The Firm renders Professional, legal services in multifaceted civil disciplines, whilst being mindful of client’s commercial and social interests at stake.
The firm by virtue of its legal expertise, has consistently committed itself to creatively and efficiently providing the full range of Commercial law services and solutions for our corporate and business clients (i.e. local and foreign). We have been involved in the preparation of a wide range of custom made commercial and business agreements that meet the client’s needs, advising on structuring of Local and International companies, both for profit and non-profit. We have worked on many joint ventures agreements and advised many foreign international companies on structuring their company formation in Bangladesh.
The firm has broad experience in Banking area especially in Islamic finance including asset finance, preparation of novel and Mudarabe, Murabah, Tawarak agreements, Islamic leasing finance, Islamic letter of credits, Islamic bonds Sukuk.
The Firm provides compensative advice and legal services on all real-estate matters, including the preparation of purchase agreements, marketing agreements, construction agreements, development agreements, construction supervision agreements, consultancy and technical service agreements and other relative agreements as well as carrying out the required government procedures to develop and transfer the ownership of real estate.
The Firm has a solid track record in conveyancing practice. It boasts an aggregate of over 2 years of extensive experience in creating and advising on securities, including mortgages, charges, debentures, loan agreements for Bank, Micro-Finance Institutions and Lending companies, transfer of property and real estate rights transactions, long term leases for developments and sectional property transactions among others.
This area of law is particularly relevant to our commercial clients. Advice on these matters generally focuses on the regulations surrounding the importation and exportation of goods in the different jurisdictions. The regulations involve such issues as labeling, packaging, points of origin, etc. Additionally, the firm offers advice on the various customs duties and tariffs as well as the possibility of operating in existing free trade zones in the region.
Another important aspect of business for corporations choosing to do business in the Bangladesh is intellectual property. Regarding trademarks and patents our job at THE JUDICIOUS is to advise our clients on these regulations. Advice on these intellectual property matters includes searching, filing and renewing trademarks and tradenames, obtaining patents and patent registration and preventing the unauthorized use of client’s trademarks, tradenames and patents. The Firm advises on issues relating to various infringements, such as counterfeit and piracy, and on the means of remedying those infringements. Additionally, we advise companies and organizations on intellectual property rights obligation under the various multilateral agreements and the compliance of the affected countries in the region.
Another important aspect to our work in advising corporate clients seeking to establish business in Bangladesh is tax ramification. We advise our clients on the tax implications of forming various types of companies permitted under each area. Our work also involves assisting our clients in filing their taxes in the various areas where necessary.
This is another area of law where the work of the firm is growing at a rapid pace. In this age of the internet and global communications, telecommunications issues are more and more becoming aspects of everyday business. The Firm has been involved in groundbreaking work in this area in Bangladesh. We have advised clients on setting up Internet Services Providers and other International Record Carriers in different areas of the region, establishing franchise and agency agreements for satellite services throughout the country and locating investors for mobile communications satellite systems. Our work in this area also includes internet-specific issues. Our firm advises and assists clients in settling domain name disputes and other internet-related problems. The firm has also assisted various financial instructions on their on-line services to clients.
The Firm is involved and busy to serve the clients of Industrial Projects, where our lawyers assist and advice developers in mega projects. This work included advising the client on administrative, environmental and constitutional issues, as well as dealing with various public authorities. As a result of the firm’s years of experience in this area of law, our lawyers have become experts on the administrative and legal aspects of these projects in the various jurisdictions.
The firm is experienced in designing and completing all types of capital market transactions, including initial public offerings, public or private bids, exits to stock exchange, block trades and private placements, capital lines, designation of assets and options plans to personnel and executives, among others. We also advise investment service complaints in their incorporation constitution and regulatory aspects as well as entities that are already listed, in the fulfillment of their obligations of public information, corporate governance matter, and in products before the regulatory agencies.
In addition to the general corporate and commercial work that the firm practices in, we also offer our client and more specialized emphasis in commercial agencies and franchising. We assist our clients by locating or providing background information on potential agents and once the appropriate agent is found by negotiating and drafting the agency and/or franchising agreements. More importantly, we provided our clients with advice on the ways and means of diluting the protections afforded to commercial agents by the laws of the various jurisdictions.
The Firm provides clients with insurance coverage counseling and advice on a wide array of issues, ranging from assessments of coverage for particular losses and representation in coverage disputes to providing help with assembling a coverage portfolio and formulating favorable policy language when insurance is being purchased or renewed. Firm also advise clients regarding the insurance assets being transferred in corporate transactions, with tax planning in connection with insurance payments or recoveries, and with alternative underwriting programs, such as captive insurance entities.
The Firm represents clients in bankruptcy and insolvency situations; as a result it requires specialized knowledge of bankruptcy law and also requires expertise in litigation and corporate law. The Firm routinely addresses questions involving debt finance, securities, transactional and tax law to assist clients in understanding their respective rights in a restructuring.
The Firm provides clients in practical legal advice to participants in the construction industry. The clients are contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, architects, engineers, owners, developers, banks, sureties and insurance companies, The Firm assists owners and developers in deciding which project delivery approach best suits their project, such as design-bid-build, design build, or multi-prime construction and it help draft requests for bids to allow the owners or developer to identify a contractor.
The Firm is involved to recover and realization the security money by taking appropriate action as required by the parties for the best interest of our clients.
The Firm’s most successful litigation has been in the area of Civil Law (especially Law of Property), Criminal Law, Company Law, Construction law by filling Writ, Criminal Case, Appeal and Revision before the appropriate Court, Litigation has become one of our areas of success mainly due to the experience garnered over the years.
The Firm continues to maintain a strong presence in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and other tribunals. We endeavor to continue adopting a determined, creative and strategic approach towards our clients’ litigation matters.
The Firm has been involved in Local and International adoptions and continues to be on the cutting edge of Child and Family Law matters. We offer consultation and litigation representation for Adoptions, Guardianships, Custody, Maintenance and other Family Law Applications.
The Firm prosecutes and defends Tort and Insurance claims, Debt Collection and Suits for premiums. We provide legal opinion on various insurance aspects and have among our achievements, the expeditious settlement of claims in favour of our clients.
The Firm has successfully taken on matters ranging from highly complex and contentious Estate management matters to general Probate and Administration, including the preparation of Wills, Testimonials and In-House training on Succession matter.
The Firm has over the years developed significant experience in advising clients on Employment, Labor and Human Resource Management issues, representing them in negotiations and litigation where necessary.
The Firm’s practice in this area continues to expand as a result, we have gathered considerable experience in advising clients on Private International Law issues where there exists a conflict of Law or a possibility of the same. As a result, we have as one of our achievements, earned the trust of various strategic Foreign Missions. Advise on immigration law and assisting clients to procure all classes of work permits, special passes etc.; and advice on matters of citizenship, the process of naturalization, right of entry and international rights.
The Firm’s most successful litigation has been in the area of Criminal for our local clients. The clients have been become released from their case by our experience consultant and associates. Currently, we are dealing with criminal case of a particular importance and we are focused on offering serious legal protection by always undertaking legal actions in function of protection constitutional and other rights of the client represented by us.
The Firm provides the clients for making contractual agreement between the parties, including the nature of contractual obligation, limitation of actions, freedom of contract, privity of contract, termination of contract and covers also agency relationship, commercial paper and contract of employment.
The Firm is involved to fight in favour of our client or any pubic of our country regarding the issue of their constitutional right and we also are determined to take necessary steps against the wrong act of the concerned authority by filing Writ before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. We are keen to return the right of our client by the court’s order.
In line with the global trend, the Firm is committed to ADR, with specific focus on mediation. We strive to facilitate expeditious resolution of disputes while maintaining and mending the relationship involved. Key among our recognizable achievements in this area includes resolution of disputes involving families, registered societies, community group and business persons.
The Firm is fully computerized and equipped with technology personnel, this has greatly contributed to increasing our efficiency and responsiveness to our clients’ needs.
The Firm has had the benefit if handling legal matters in other major towns in Bangladesh on a need to need basis. In doing this, we have partnered and networked with credible Law Firms in major towns, to assist on case to case basis, with the selective “inter-town” briefs that we take up.
The Firm’s Legal Aid Section is our service to society. We give legal advice and take legal action on a selective basis, at no fee. Preeminent amongst our clients in this section are widows, battered women for whom we handle probate matters and children in conflict with the Law.
The Judicious Barristers, Advocates, Legal Consultants 15/A Century Arcade, Moghbazaar, 2nd Floor, Dhaka 1217, Bangladesh
mail@thejudicious.com
