Professional Qualifications:
- 2025, Enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh
- 2020, Enrolled as an Advocate of Bangladesh Bar Council
- 2017, Barrister-at-Law, Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, England
Academic Qualifications:
- 2016, PGDL (BPTC), City St George’s, University of London
- 2015, LL.B (Hons), University of London
- 2012, Diploma-in-Law, University of London
Bar Membership:
- Supreme Court Bar Association, Bangladesh
- Dhaka Bar Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Publications:
- LexisNexis Merger & Acquisition Law Guide 2019 – One Belt One Road China Investment.
Workshops and Training:
- ICC Workshop on Documentary Credits in Courts, International Chamber of Commerce.
Profile
Mr Darras Abdullah has cultivated a versatile and multidisciplinary practice spanning corporate and commercial advisory, complex litigation, arbitration, banking and finance, energy and infrastructure, property, employment and family law and advisory, regulatory and quasi-judicial representation.
Mr Abdullah’s contentious practice has embraced some of the most keenly disputed legal proceedings across the various courts of first instance and the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Additionally. he regularly appears before quasi-judicial and regulatory bodies.
He has acted in high-value arbitral proceedings concerning corporate structuring, the energy and power sectors, and property and development matters. Mr Abdullah regularly undertakes extensive property due diligence exercises as well as corporate due diligence assignments.
Mr Abdullah furnishes legal opinions across a multifarious spectrum of practice areas to multinational corporate clients, encompassing labour and employment law, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, data privacy and whistleblowing frameworks, securities and exchange (SEC) regulation, foreign exchange, competition law, transportation and logistics, and power and energy law.
He is also a periodic contributor to international benchmarking and policy publications, including the World Bank’s Doing Business report and the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index.
