The mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and Corporate Restructure practice is one of the fastest-growing in the firm. Undoubtedly the firm is leading the sector in Bangladesh. Doulah & Doulah has significant experience in representing different parties in such transactions such as, the acquiring party, the party going to be acquired, the corporate guarantors, the financiers, the merging parties etc. Also nowadays corporate entities are going to restructure themselves faster due to emerging scopes of asset finance, bankruptcy etc.
In conjunction to M&A Banking and Finance Practice of the firm represents clients in many aspects of financing transactions, from origination and negotiation, to documentation and closing, and when necessary, to enforcement of remedies or procedures and agreements for workout and reorganization.
The firm has very strong due-diligence capabilities and forms an integral part of its M&A practice in Bangladesh. Experts in real estate, tax and employment arena works in tandem with the M&A, finance and corporate experts effectively to produce comprehensive and red flag due diligence reports in a cost and time effecient manner. In addition, to the surgical due diligences capabilities to be conducted over the targets, the firm possesses the unique competence to provide pragmatic and solution oriented mitigation plans to enable both the acquirer and the target to achieve closing successfully.
Besides assiting local clients in mergers and acquisition matters, the firm extensively acts for various international clients in major global mergers and acquisitions. Some major matters undertaken are as follows:
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in JAFPA acquisition of a large agro copany in Bangladesh
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in International Lease Finance Corporation in its sale of assets
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Al Aqeeq in its acquisition of Best Air
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in SpiceJet in its potential acquisition of an Air Operator
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in NDB Bank in its acquisition of Capital Market Services Ltd.
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Commercial Bank of Ceylone acquisition of Credit Agricole Indosuez
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in ANZ sale of Bangladesh operation to Standard Chartered
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Shenzhen- Sanghai Stock Exchange Acquisition of a financial institute
- Acted as Common Counsel in HSBC worldwide de-merger of operation
- Acted as Common Counsel in Holcim and Lafarge merger
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Simen Indonesia acquisition of a large cement plant in Bangladesh
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in China Railway Acquisition of First Dhaka Elevated Expressway
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in China Shangdong and Sinohydro acquisition of First Dhaka Elevated Expressway
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in SKE&C Acquisition of First Dhaka Elevated Expressway
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Acquisition of D-Water CETP Ecosystems
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Yamato Acquisition of large pool of ETP plants in different EPZs
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Fedex in its merger with TNT
- Acted as Common Counsel in CSAV & Hapag-Lloyd worldwide merger
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in STI acquisition of RIF Lines
- Acted as Common Counsel in Linde and Praxair merger
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Aries Fashion acquisition of three garments industries
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Samena Capital acquisition of a stake in RAK Ceramics
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in KPS capital in its acquisition of American & Efird
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in A&E in acquisition of Brandix and Phoenix stake
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Acquisition of KE Technical Textiles
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Mitsubishi acquisition of ETA Melco
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Serial systems acquisition investment in Jel Corporation
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Kansai Nerolac acquisition of RAK Paints
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Khadim Shoes acquisition of a shoe manufacturer in Bangladesh
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Acted for CEAT in divesting a portion of its equities in Bangladesh
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Gulf Pharmaceuticals Ltd. acquisition of RAK Pharmaceuticals
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in GlaxoSmithKiline acquisition of Paras Pharmaceuticals
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Sun Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition by Ranbaxy
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Zhenhua Acquisition of Chevron Assets including three gasfields
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Mitsubishi Acquisition of large pool of LNG Assets
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Muscat Gas acquisition of large pool of LPG Assets
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Ophir Energy acquisition of large pool of Exploration Assets of Santos
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in Ophir and Medco merger
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in Santos Proposal for Sale of Gas fields
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in AES acquisition of Covanta power assets in Bangladesh
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in El Paso sale of United Summit Coastal Oil Ltd.
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in El Paso sale of Coastal Fuji Oil Ltd. stake
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Picnic Corporation acquisition of Summit Surma Petroleum Co.
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in El Paso sale of United Summit Coastal Oil Ltd
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in El Paso sale of Khulna Barge Mounted Power Plant stake
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in El Paso sale of Coastal Petroleum
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in El Paso sale of NEPC Power Ltd. stake to Globeleq
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in CECEP acquisition of 200MW Solar Power Plant
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Acted for Solarton in acquiring a solar power plant in Bangladesh
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in KAWP acquisition of E.co stake
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Unisplendour acquisition of Hyalroute
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Khazanah acquisition of E.co stake
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Towershare acquisition of potential tower assets of a mobile operator
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in M1 acquisition of tower assets
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in Microsoft in sale of its feature phone business to Foxconn
- Acted as Common Counsel in Nokia merger with Alcatel Lucent
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in Singtel in its sale of stake in a mobile operator
- Acted as Common Counsel in De-merger of tower assets from Bharti Airtel
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in Mobiserve in sale of its interest in Orasinvest
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Wipro in its acquisition of Grameenphone IT
- Acted as Seller’s Counsel in Microsoft in its acquisition of Nokia business
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Nokia in its acquisition of Navteq
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Huawei in its acquisition of International Turnkey Systems
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Zingmobile in its acquisition of B2M technologies
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Vimpelcom acquisition of Weather Telecom holding Banglalink GSM
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Underwrite Laboratories acquisition of Consumer Testing Lab
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in UL Inc. acquisition of Specialized Technology Resources Ltd.
- Acted as Buyer’s Counsel in Underwriters Laboratories Inc. acquisition of Magnus Textile Services
