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Project & Infrastructure
Finance
Internationally focused counsel for Project & Infrastructure Finance matters—framing the governing law, commercial decision and jurisdiction-specific inputs before selecting a route.
The starting point
Questions to frame before a finance
process advances
These prompts provide general Bangladesh-related context for a fact-specific discussion. They do not determine whether a structure, approval, instrument or security arrangement applies to a project.
Is the project sufficiently defined for a finance discussion?
Consider whether the project company, asset scope, revenue basis, core contracts and principal funding parties have been identified.This is not a feasibility opinion, investment recommendation or construction-contract review.
Does the proposed funding raise a foreign-exchange or external-borrowing question?
Map residence, currency, facility or guarantee form, repayment path and the role of any authorised dealer before treating a cross-border funding term as settled.This does not state whether an approval, permission, reporting requirement or exemption applies.
Is a PPP or capital-markets interface material to the timetable?
Identify early whether the project is within a PPP process or whether a debt-security, Sukuk or asset-backed-security route is under consideration.This is not a procurement strategy, offer document, approval or eligibility statement.
Source-attributed matters
Selected TRW deal
records
The Legal 500 profile for Tahmidur Rahman at Tahmidur Remura Wahid TRW Law Firm records the matters below. Each is presented as a labelled independent-directory or independent-profile record and does not state a current client relationship, result or forecast.
Investec
The Legal 500 profile for Tahmidur Rahman at Tahmidur Remura Wahid TRW Law Firm attributes this matter to Tahmidur Rahman: “Investec – Advised on a 38 million USD financing for the development of a portfolio of utility-scale photovoltaic power plants, including due diligence on land rights, EPC contracts, and risk allocation frameworks.”Independent directory or independent profile record.Independent directory or independent profile recordBNP Paribas
The Legal 500 profile for Tahmidur Rahman at Tahmidur Remura Wahid TRW Law Firm attributes this matter to Tahmidur Rahman: “BNP Paribas – Acted as counsel in a 27 million USD facility for the construction and commissioning of two wind farms, providing full legal support from term sheet to drawdown.”Independent directory or independent profile record.Independent directory or independent profile recordMega-bridge receivables securitisation
The Legal 500 profile for Tahmidur Rahman at Tahmidur Remura Wahid TRW Law Firm attributes this matter to Tahmidur Rahman: “Acted for a syndicate of development banks and a regional infrastructure fund in the structuring and issuance of a US$1.4 billion zero-coupon, milestone-based receivables securitization for the financing of a mega-bridge infrastructure project in a canal-crossing corridor.”Independent directory or independent profile record.Independent directory or independent profile recordInvestec: Source attribution and client-consent status should be confirmed before relying on this published record.
BNP Paribas: Source attribution and client-consent status should be confirmed before relying on this published record.
Mega-bridge receivables securitisation: Source attribution and client-consent status should be confirmed before relying on this published record.
A focused conversation
Bounded finance
workstreams
The following navigation workstreams identify questions that may need to be framed around a defined asset and proposed funding path. Their relevance depends on the facts, documents and applicable legal framework.
01 · Practice scope
Project-finance structure mapping
Identify the project entity, funding parties, revenue assumptions and core project documents that may need to be understood before finance terms are assessed.02 · Practice scope
Financing-term and document interface
Consider how a proposed term sheet, facility agreement or funding condition may need to be aligned with identified project arrangements.03 · Practice scope
Security, cash-flow and creditor architecture
Identify collateral, project-account, priority and creditor questions that may require fact-specific review.04 · Practice scope
Foreign-exchange and external-borrowing issue spotting
Map whether the proposed parties, currency, loan, guarantee or repayment route may raise Bangladesh Bank questions.05 · Practice scope
PPP-finance interface
Consider whether the status of a PPP project, including its procurement phase, may need to be taken into account in a financing timetable.06 · Practice scope
Debt, Sukuk and asset-backed-security pathway mapping
Identify whether a transaction team should consider BSEC debt-security, Islamic-security or asset-backed-security rule questions.07 · Practice scope
Cross-border conditions and document coordination
Identify governing-law, local-law, signing, deliverable and timing issues that may need to be allocated among counsel and transaction parties.08 · Practice scope
Finance-readiness diligence plan
Organise high-level non-confidential facts, documents and decision dates for an initial legal review.Bangladesh context
Bangladesh-related context
signals
These public materials are issue-spotting anchors only. They do not determine the regulatory treatment, availability or suitability of a financing route for a particular matter.
PPP framework materials
The PPP Authority’s downloads page lists the PPP Act, 2015, the 2023 amendment, Procurement Guidelines for PPP Projects, 2018, Viability Gap Financing rules and other framework materials. Public-sector infrastructure projects may therefore involve multiple formal instruments and process documents.Read sourceProject entity and public-authority context
The Bangladesh Public-Private Partnership Act, 2015 addresses infrastructure in the public sector and a PPP contract between a contracting authority and project company. This is context for identifying relevant project, authority and contract relationships.Read sourceDated institutional infrastructure-finance context
Bangladesh Bank’s IPFF II page describes a long-term-infrastructure-financing component and lists energy, ports, transport, water, ICT and social infrastructure among eligible-sector categories. The page states a project tenure from July 2017 to April 2024, so this is dated institutional context rather than a current financing opportunity.Read sourceQuestions, not prescriptions
What may
matter.
These answers are general information. The applicable route depends on the facts, documents and current legal position.
What Bangladesh PPP framework may be relevant to a project-finance enquiry?
As of the research date, the Bangladesh Public-Private Partnership Act, 2015 provides a legal framework for PPPs and establishes the PPP Authority. Where relevant, the 2018 Procurement Guidelines set out identification, development, bidding, and approval-and-award phases for selecting a private partner under the Act. Not every infrastructure project is a PPP, and this page is not procurement advice.
Why should foreign currency, guarantees or external borrowing be identified early?
As of 2 September 2026, Bangladesh Bank’s consolidated circular concerns foreign-exchange regulations for loans, overdrafts, guarantees and external borrowings, and includes borrowing abroad by residents. The application of those materials depends on current directions and transaction-specific facts; this page does not state an approval result, reporting requirement or permission.
Can an infrastructure financing use debt securities, Sukuk or asset-backed securities?
BSEC states that the Debt Securities Rules, 2021 apply to debt securities, Islamic Shari’ah-based securities including Sukuk, and asset-backed securities within the listed private-offer or public-issue and offer routes. This does not state that an instrument qualifies, is permitted, is appropriate or will obtain consent.
Begin with context
Discuss a project or infrastructure
finance question
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Legal information only. This page provides general information about Bangladesh-related project and infrastructure finance questions. It is not legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, technical, procurement or regulatory advice. It does not state that a financing structure, instrument, approval, security package, foreign-exchange treatment, PPP route, debt-security route or transaction document is available, lawful, appropriate or sufficient for any person or project. Laws, regulations, regulatory practice and official guidance can change, and their application depends on the project, asset, parties, location, governing law, currency, financing documents, procurement status and other facts. This page does not create a lawyer-client relationship and should not be relied on as a substitute for advice on a specific matter. Do not send confidential, privileged, commercially sensitive, bid, financing, identity or personal information through a public form or ordinary email unless TRW first confirms an appropriate secure channel and conflict position. Contacting TRW does not by itself create a lawyer-client relationship, confirm that TRW can act, or prevent TRW from acting for another party where permitted. Selected TRW deal records are reproduced only from the stated source and are subject to the source label shown. Source attribution and client-consent status should be confirmed before relying on a published record. Their inclusion is not a promise of a result, a statement about current client relationships, a testimonial, comparative claim or recommendation.
Source links are provided for reader verification. Legal and regulatory materials can change, and the relevance of any source-attributed transaction record depends on the source, facts and current context.
Selected source material
- Legal 500 — Tahmidur Rahman, Tahmidur Remura Wahid TRW Law Firm
- Bangladesh Public-Private Partnership Act, 2015
- Procurement Guidelines for PPP Projects, 2018
- Bangladesh Bank FEPD-1 Circular No. 32
- Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission — Debt Securities
- Bangladesh Bank — Investment Promotion & Financing Facility II Project Cell
- Public Private Partnership Authority Bangladesh — Downloads
- TRW Law Firm — Contact
- How to book an appointment with TRW law firm
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