Tanim Hussain Shawon

Advocate | Supreme Court of Bangladesh

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Tanim Hussain Shawon is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, a Barrister and a Partner at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates, having joined the Firm in 2007.

Tanim’s main practice areas include commercial and corporate, constitutional and administrative, arbitration, admiralty and shipping, banking and foreign exchange, capital markets, labour and employment, energy and petroleum, telecommunication and public interest law.

Tanim has acted as counsel in international commercial arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules, ICC Rules and the Arbitration Act, 2001 of Bangladesh. He has also acted as counsel in large-scale cross-border mergers, acquisition and divestment matters in the telecommunications, pharmaceutical, electronics and general industrial and service sectors. He has assisted in the listing of companies in stock-exchanges in Bangladesh, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has acted as counsel in various reported cases that involved a broad range of issues, from revenue and commercial disputes to constitutional law. He has represented clients pro bono in public interest litigation on workers’ safety and the right to information.