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Junayed Ahmed Chowdhury is the founding and managing partner of Vertex Icon Corporate Service Provider (Dubai) and Vertex International Consulting (Sydney). He is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London. 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 & Practice” (first edition published in 2015 and second edition in 2021) which has been catalogued by, among others, the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School, the Library of Congress and the British Library. He has also authored the first bilingual book “Commentaries on the Law of Arbitration in Bangladesh” (published by University Press Limited in 2024), which has been lauded by the celebrated former Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud. He is also the co-author of the Bangladesh Chapter in the pre-eminent book “Secured Transaction Law in Asia” published by Hart Publishing in 2021.

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.

Sajeda Farisa Kabir is the Founding Partner of Vertex Icon. She is a Solicitor (non-practising) 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, 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, Wales, 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 led legal aid program in the world. Mrs. Kabir is currently the Senior Director, Social Integrity and Environment at SAJIDA Foundation, one of the leading NGOs in Bangladesh. Her portfolio in this role includes Safeguarding, Employee Engagement, Legal, Gender, Disability Inclusion, Environment and Risk Management. She is a leading expert on sexual harassment redressal mechanism, employee safety and wellness, access to justice, and Safeguarding.

Maliha Ahmed is a consultant at Vertex Icon. She is an Advocate of the District and Sessions Judge Court, Dhaka. She has completed her LLB (Hons.) from the University of London, UK and is now training to be a Solicitor of the Law Society of New South Wales, Australia. Her practice areas include Tax, Banking and Finance, Construction, Real Estate, Telecommunication, Technology, Bond financing, Corporate, Commercial and Employment. Ms Ahmed co-authored the Bangladesh chapter of the 2019 and 2020 editions of Lexology Getting the Deal Through, Labour and Employment and Investment Treaty Arbitration 2021. She also co-authored the Bangladesh chapter in Legal500: International Arbitration Country Comparative Guide 2025.

Salahdin Imam was educated at Harvard College and as a SPURS Fellow at MIT. He was an international banker based for nearly 10 years in Paris as a senior executive responsible for 6 countries of Francophone Africa in the course of which he frequently had to represent his bank, or the African country concerned, at contentious negotiations centering around loan offerings, loan rescheduling, collateral adjustments and other multilateral/multibank contestations. Currently based in his home country Bangladesh he continues to consult on complex disputes while guiding a legal team on behalf of principals. Over the years he has developed skills as a creative negotiator aiming to bring disputes to a close.