Associate

Nadia obtained her LL.B. (Hons.) degree from Cardiff University, UK, in 2013. Thereafter, she completed her Bar Professional Training Course from the University of Law, Birmingham, with full scholarship from the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple contributing towards the tuition fees of the Bar course. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales from the Middle Temple, London, in 2014. She then worked as a legal assistant at a solicitor’s firm in London, UK. Nadia had also undertaken a mini-pupillage at St. James’s Chambers, Manchester, UK during her final year of LLB.

Prior to joining SIAA, Nadia had gained experience of working on corporate and foreign investment matters at a corporate chambers in Dhaka. Nadia joined SIAA in 2016 and primarily specialises in mergers and acquisitions of private and listed entities, including conducting due diligences and assisting clients during the negotiation process, and regularly advises local and international clients and multinational organisations on matters relating to commercial, labour, foreign investment, payment and settlement regulations, mobile financial services, data security, business set-up, joint ventures, shipping laws, contractual, telecommunication; and provides company secretarial services to many locally incorporated entities.

Nadia has gained extensive experience in working with and advising listed companies in Bangladesh in some of the notable merger and acquisition transactions, advising on all securities and exchange laws, capital markets, corporate governance, disclosure requirements, deal structure, drafting and advising on transactional documents, competition laws, employee severance schemes and all other ancillary matters pertinent to the transaction.

Some of the notable clients that Nadia have dealt with include the IFC, IMF, major social media platforms and fintech companies, Payoneer, PayPal, Mastercard, Telenor, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), British Americal Tobacco (BAT), Singer, National Stock Exchange of India, BRAC Bank, Accenture, Edotco, Svitzer and Maersk.

Email: nadia@siaalaw.com