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Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan

ADVOCATE AFRIN JAHAN KHAN

Overview

Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan is a Senior Associate of Legal Counsel. Taking keen interest on litigation, she majorly manages the Chambers’ litigations pending before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, advising, drafting documents and instruments for, conducting hearings and representing, the Chambers’ clients.

Apart from litigation, she specializes in Constitutional Law and Public Interest Litigation, Tax Law, Land Law, Power, Energy and Natural Resources Law etc.

Education and Professional Qualifications

  • Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh
  • Member, Bangladesh Bar Council, Dhaka Bar Association & Supreme Court Bar Association
  • LLM, Eastern University, Bangladesh
  • LLB (Hons.), University of London, UK
  • Currently Pursuing Post Graduate Diploma in Tax Management (PGDTM), United International University ( UIU)

Work Experience

In October 2009, Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan started her legal career with a litigation-based law firm namely Khandker Mahbub Hossain and Associates. Focusing chiefly on litigation practice, she gained expertise in handling case paperwork, drafting and filing different legal instruments and documents before the courts, following in-depth legal research. She learned about managing cases in relation to Judicial Reviews, Criminal and Civil Law matters and Writs.

After pursuing her LLM degree, Advocate Afrin joined Chowdhury & Ullah in 2013, where she gained experience in Banking Law, Company Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Family Law and Constitutional Law.

Switching to Lex Counsel in 2015, Advocate Afrin focused her practice in a variety of legal areas such as Power, Energy and Natural Resources Law, Contract Law and Land Law etc. She largely engaged in dealing with several high profile Government projects including PPP (Public-Private Partnership) projects, large infrastructural projects etc. She has represented different institutions, ministries, statutory bodies etc. under the Government of Bangladesh in numerous litigations within writ jurisdictions of the Supreme Court.

In November 2018, Advocate Afrin joined Legal Counsel as a Senior Associate and had been looking after the litigations at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. She drafts various legal instruments and other ancillary legal documents for filing before the courts of the country. She researches through huge volume of information and delivers complex legal opinions on vast spectrum of laws, including Laws of Corporate and Individual Taxation, Labour & Employment Laws and Land Law. Here she represents Legal Counsel’s clients including reputed MNCs, large corporates, international organizations etc.

Areas of Practice

  • Contract Law
  • Constitutional Law and Public Interest Litigation
  • Corporate & Company Law
  • Telecom and Information, Communication and  Technology (ICT) Law
  • Labour & Employment Law
  • Land Law
  • Power, Energy and Natural Resources Law
  • Tax Law (Corporate and Individual)

Pro-Bono works

  • Contributor to The Daily Observer
  • Managing Pro-Bono Portfolio of Legal Counsel

Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan

Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan

Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan

Advocate Afrin Jahan Khan

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.