Partners

Junayed Ahmed Chowdhury is the Managing Partner of Vertex Chambers. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, United Kingdom. He also holds the license to practice foreign law as a Registered Foreign Legal Consultant under the Law Society of New South Wales, Australia. Mr. Chowdhury completed his LL.B from University of London and holds an LL.M from the University of Chicago Law School. He specializes in Corporate and International Taxation, Legislative Drafting, Corporate law, Construction and Infrastructure laws, Media and Entertainment, International Finance law, Aviation, Telecommunication Energy, Environment, Private Equity, Commercial, Litigation and ADR. Mr. Chowdhury is the author of the leading Bangladeshi practitioners’ textbook “Corporate Tax Law and Practice” (published by Mullick Brothers in 2015), which has been catalogued by the British Library and the University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library.The second edition of the book has been published by University Press Limited in 2021 and also catalogued by the British Library.

Mr. Chowdhury is the draftsman of the draft Secured Transaction (Moveable Property) Act (currently under review) for the Government of Bangladesh and the draft Bangladesh Local Authority Bond Act, 2017 (for the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). He is also the co-author of the Bangladesh Chapter in the pre-eminent book “Secured Transaction Law in Asia”, which is due to be published by Hart Publishing in 2021. The Legal 500, a leading international law firm directory quoted about him as possessing “vast knowledge and is very professional”. Mr. Chowdhury has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Connecticut Law School, USA and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, and has lectured as a guest faculty at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Dhaka University and Chittagong Independent University.

Sajeda Farisa Kabir is a Founding Partner of Vertex Chambers. She is a Solicitor of New South Wales, Australia, an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, United Kingdom. Mrs. Kabir is the first Bangladeshi Female Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh to hold tri-jurisdictional qualification from Bangladesh, UK and Australia. Mrs. Kabir holds LL.B from Cardiff University, the United Kingdom.

Between 2015 and 2018, she served as an Associate Director of the Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (HRLS) Program of BRAC, the largest NGO in the world. She also chaired BRAC’s Sexual Harassment Redressal Committee during this period. Mrs. Kabir is a leading expert on sexual harassment redressal mechanism, access to justice, and safeguarding, and in addition to her role at Vertex Chambers, she acts as a Consultant and Chairperson of the sexual harassment redressal committee of Sajida Foundation, one of the leading NGOs in Bangladesh.

Tanvir Quader is a Partner of Vertex Chambers. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, United Kingdom. Mr. Quader completed his LL.B from University of London. He further completed a Negotiation Workshop under the Harvard Negotiation Institute, Harvard University. His practice areas include Banking and Finance, Mobile Financial Services, IT and Telecommunication, Commercial,

Employment, Aviation, Construction, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Corporate, NGO, Taxation, Media and Entertainment, Litigation and ADR. Mr Quader co-authored the Bangladesh chapter of the 2019 and 2020 editions of Lexology Getting the Deal Through, Labour and Employment. The Legal 500, a leading international law firm directory quoted him as “Tanvir Quader is responsive, fast, thoughtful and easy to communicate with”.

Asif Bin Anwar is a Partner of Vertex Chambers. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, United Kingdom. He completed his LL.B from University of London. Mr. Anwar specializes in Civil and Criminal matters, Constitutional law, Corporate, Construction, Real Estate, Banking, Intellectual Property,

Employment, Family, Litigation and ADR. Mr. Anwar published numerous articles in the national dailies such as “Viability of Children’s Court” in The Daily Star. Mr. Anwar, who was a teacher of law, now delivers lectures occasionally as a guest faculty at London School of Legal Studies South, in the distance learning programmes of University of London and BPP University.