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Practice Areas & Industries: Akhtar Imam & Associates

 





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Services Available

•    Significant telecommunications regulatory expertise
•    Mergers and acquisitions
•    Asset acquisition and disposition
•    Contractual and licensing matters
•    Making representations to Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory
     Commission on behalf of clients
•    Negotiating long term site leases and other real estate related matters
•    Litigation challenging decisions/orders of the regulator and licensing
     matters
•    Corporate affairs of telecom operators

 

Representative work and reported decisions:

•    Currently representing a multinational in its acquisition of the entire
     passive telecom infrastructure of one of the largest telecom operators
     in Bangladesh: this deal is set to become the first of its kind in
     Bangladesh (Deal Value: USD 250 million)


•    Acquisition of Sheba Telecom by Egyptian telecom giant Orascom Telecom
     Holding to form Banglalink, one of the largest telecom operators in
     Bangladesh (Deal value: USD 50 million)


•    Represented Bangla Phone Limited in multiple Writ Petitions against
     BTRC (the regulator) on issues of possible breaches of the conditions
     of the Zonal Public Switched Telephone Network Licence (PSTN) and
     Domestic Data Communication Service provider, and the conversion of
     the zonal licence into a national one, etc.