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Overview

Barrister Miti Sanjana is a founding partner of Legal Counsel. She is also a columnist and an eminent media personality. She is a soft-spoken admirable Person. She has come from a highly cultural oriented family and developed her personal values accordingly. She has been highly applauded by her clients for her timely legal services with excellence. While her principal focus is on Corporate & Commercial Laws, Banking Law and Property Laws, she has also been working very closely for furtherance and development of the social causes, e.g. gender equality, women empowerment etc. She also practices on Family Law based on Muslim Law and Hindu Law and deals with marriage, divorce, custody, cross-religious marriages etc.

Education and Professional Qualifications

  • Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
  • Member, Bangladesh Bar Council, Dhaka Bar Association & Supreme Court Bar Association.
  • Called to the Bar (Barrister-at-Law) from the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, UK.
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Law (PGDL) awarded by the Inns of Courts School of Law (ICSL), London, UK.
  • LL.B (Hons.), University of London, UK.
  • Member – Bangladesh Bar Council Dhaka Bar Association. Supreme Court Bar Association.

Work Experience

Barrister Miti Sanjana has started her legal career as an intern in one of the most renowned law firms in Bangladesh, Dr. Kamal Hossain & Associates immediately after completing her graduation.

Upon completion of her Bar from the Hon’ble Society of Lincoln’s Inn, UK, in 2006 she joined as a Junior Associate at Hasan & Associates, the largest corporate law firm of that time. She has gained experience in Banking Law, Company Law, Contract Law, Negotiation etc. with the exposure to a number of local and international clients of the chambers.

In early 2008, Barrister Sanjana joined Orascom Telecom Ltd. (Banglalink) as an in-house counsel. She developed her experience in Telecommunication and ICT Laws, regulatory and other compliance issues. She developed her skills in drafting and negotiating various commercial agreements. She was also involved with legal matters including data privacy, real estate, employment and various forms of corporate litigations and Writs. 

Later that year, Barrister Sanjana  joined BRAC Bank Limited, one of the leading private banks of Bangladesh as the Head of Legal and Risk Management Department for a brief period.

In early 2009, she left BRAC Bank Limited and established Legal Counsel as a sole proprietor. Thereafter, the head of chambers, Barrister Omar Khan joined and created a partnership in relation to the Chambers. Legal Counsel now represents more than 500 clients from 30 countries from different parts of the globe.

Barrister Sanjana is currently also a board member of Bangladesh-India Business Council of WICCI.

Miti Sanjana is also an Associate Director of Institute of Conflict, Law and Development Studies. This organization acts as a platform to discuss peace and security issues in Bangladesh. In particular, it aims to improve the connections between policymakers and community members in order to ensure that laws work to protect the population’s rights.

 

Areas of Practice

  • Company and Banking Law
  • Family Law
  • Labour & Employment Law
  • Property Law
  • Rights and gender-based Law
  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Law

Pro-Bono works, Publications and Conference Presentations

Barrister Miti Sanjana

Barrister Miti Sanjana

Barrister Miti Sanjana

Barrister Miti Sanjana

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Members of Team Legal Counsel are recognized experts, with unrivalled experience in the corporate sector. From the inception of our chambers, we have accrued the vision of providing services in full swing to a vast number of national and international organizations. The firm is involved in many other philanthropic causes, in 2017 we devoted 1200 hours to pro bono work. We have a reputation for client service, creativity and excellence and have dealt with some of the most high profile and challenging cases of recent years. Our primary objective has been to flourish and inspire the brilliance and quality of service to the clients.

We grasp the commercial consideration, which underlie transactions and the issues our clients bring to us. We consider it as very important to fully understand the nature of each client’s business, the markets in which the clients operate and the real business issues involved in the matters we work on. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal services and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

This gives rise to close, long-term and effective working relationship between our clients and us. Legal Counsel as a publishing house made its first publication ‘Legal Stories of Life’. This publication goes hand-in-hand with the core values and policies of our chambers in disseminating legal knowledge amongst the people in ensuring better implementation of laws in our society. We grasp the commercial consideration, which underlie transactions and the issues our clients bring to us. 

We consider it as very important to fully understand the nature of each client’s business, the markets in which the clients operate and the real business issues involved in the matters we work on. The associates of the firm aim to be positive and constructive. We use a flexible and commercial approach tailored to meet each client’s particular business needs. We operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal services and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact. This gives rise to close, long-term and effective working relationship between client and lawyer.