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Dr. Sharif Bhuiyan

Enrolled:  2024 (Senior Advocate)

Deputy Head of Chambers and Partner

International, and Commercial Practice

M: +8801714117858
E: sbhuiyan@khossain.com

 


Sharif Bhuiyan is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a Partner and Deputy Head of Chambers at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates.

Sharif leads the firm’s international and commercial practice. He practises in a wide range of areas, including, admiralty, arbitration, aviation, banking, competition, corporate and commercial, employment, energy, infrastructure, insurance, intellectual property, securities, taxation, technology and telecommunication.

He acted as lead Bangladesh counsel in many cross-border projects and transactions, including multibillion dollar transactions, in the consumer goods, electronics, energy, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication and various other sectors and as lead counsel and legal expert in international commercial arbitrations involving substantial claims and parties and arbitrators of multiple nationalities. He was lead counsel in reported cases before the Bangladesh Supreme Court in diverse areas, including, arbitration, banking, company law, constitutional law, energy, right to information, shipping and telecommunication. He also acts as a consultant in various matters, including as a consultant for the World Bank. Sharif is consistently ranked as a top tier legal practitioner (band 1) by international practitioners’ directories, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific.

Sharif was Co-Rapporteur of the Committee on International Trade Law, International Law Association (2009-14) and Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (2006). He taught civil servants of the Bangladesh Government a course on international governance at BRAC University, Dhaka (2006-08) and was a Lecturer at the University of Dhaka (2000). He is the author of National Law in WTO Law: Effectiveness and Good Governance in the World Trading System (Cambridge University Press, 2007), co-editor (with Philippe Sands and Nico Schrijver) of International Law and Developing Countries (Brill Nijhoff, 2014) and author of many articles in internationally published books and journals.

A graduate of the University of Dhaka, Sharif also holds an LL.M. degree in Commercial Law and a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Cambridge, UK. He was enrolled as an Advocate by the Bangladesh Bar Council (1997), was permitted to practise before the High Court Division (2000) and the Appellate Division (2015) of the Supreme Court and was appointed as a Senior Advocate (2024)

Sharif is a member of the Dhaka Bar Association and the Supreme Court Bar Association.

Sharif Bhuiyan is a leading corporate lawyer in Bangladesh. He is deeply experienced in advising international and local clients on cross-border M&A, capital markets and projects matters, among others
Chambers Global and Asia-Pacific Guides 2023
Sharif is a very sharp mind in international trade and finance
Chambers Global and Asia-Pacific Guides 2023