Gazi Farhad Reza,

Managing Partner

He is the Managing Partner of Gazi Law Associates.  He has completed his LL.B Honours from London Metropolitan University, UK. He completed his LL.M in International Trade Law and Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) from the Northumbria University, UK. He was called to the Bar from Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London. He is a lawyer specialised in commercial law, banking, corporate transactions, Mergers and Acquisition. His practice areas also include, inter Alia, Income Tax Reference, VAT & Customs, Admiralty, International and domestic Arbitration. Gazi has experienced working in company and corporate matters i.e the company formation, rjsc compliance, share transfer, forfeit, company restructure and corporate governance. He advices on start-up ventures, venture capital, joint ventures, partnership structure and share market transactions. He has developed particular practice in international trade transactions, custom matters, Bank companies and financial institution affairs. He has sound commercial knowledge to provide advice to corporate entities.
Gazi has worked under the guidance of internationally renowned lawyer Dr. Kamal Hossain for more than 7 years and assisted him in notable international arbitrations as well as domestic matters. Inter alia, notably Gazi has assisted Dr. Hossain in Sampra v Argentina (ICSID Case No. ARB/02/16), Indian Potash Limited v Agriculture Inputs Company Limited (PCA Case No. 2015-17), Standard Chartered Bank Limited v United Republic of Tanzania (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/41), Niko Resources (Bangladesh) Ltd v Bapex and Petrobangla (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/18), Catherine Masud’s compensation claim, appointment of judges in Bangladesh Higher Judiciary and many others. Under his supervision he has also provided legal assistance to many international organisations i.e World Bank. As a regular practitioner Gazi regularly appears in civil, criminal and writ matters before the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Gazi also worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Dhaka.  Apart from practicing as a lawyer Gazi has strong interest in entrepreneurship, cross professional networking and leadership building activities. Gazi is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Adalot.TV which is a YouTube based channel for broadcasting programmes on law, policy and politics. He is the Founder President of Legal Voice Foundation (LVF) which is a lawyer led organization working to raise public awareness among the general mass and he is also the Founder Convenor of Bangladesh Young Professional Association (BYPA) which is a platform working to unite young professionals from different professional backgrounds and get them involve in social business through cross professional networking. Gazi believes Bangladeshi youths have huge potential to thrive in international market. All is required now the youths to engage more into international market and bring the experience into local market. He also believes that in the age of globalization cross cultural and cross boarder experience sharing is the key to success in the upcoming time.