What people actually want to know.

No. Exit.bd is closed by design — listings are never indexed, never appear on a public directory, and never reach the open web. We surface anonymised teasers only to buyers whose investment brief overlaps your business profile, and only after both sides have cleared KYC.

Even those teasers redact the company name, founder identity, precise address and any trademarked branding. Your full identity unlocks only after a buyer signs an NDA bound to your listing — generated from your template, on your terms. See KaritKarma’s closed-marketplace operating note, March 2026.

Three layers of containment. (a) Anonymised teasers with no identifying detail — sector, district, revenue band, asking range only. (b) NDA-gated deal rooms with watermarks tied to the requesting buyer’s identity, every download timestamped. (c) Regex-based contact-info scrubbing in Secure Chat to block off-platform leakage; circumvention is the fastest way to lose access.

Bangladesh Bank’s Guidelines for Foreign Exchange Transactions also bind cross-border counterparties to the same disclosure regime — that protects sellers as much as regulators.

For private limited companies you must be incorporated under the Companies Act 1994 with a current RJSC Form XII (list of directors) and a valid Trade Licence. Sole proprietors and partnerships can list a goodwill-and-asset sale, but a share transfer is not available because there are no shares to transfer — your deal team will surface this distinction at listing review. Either way, NBR TIN and a recent audited or management account is required.

From listing to escrow release, most deals on Exit.bd close in 90 to 180 days. SMEs with clean books and a single decision-maker move faster; cross-border acquisitions requiring Bangladesh Bank FE Circular 26/2014 approval, or share transfers via RJSC Form 117 with stamp duty under the Stamp Act 1899, can take 6 to 9 months. We do not pressure either side to compress the timetable.

Yes, with conditions. Acquisitions resulting in foreign control of a Bangladeshi entity require prior approval from Bangladesh Bank under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947, with inward remittance routed through an authorised dealer bank — see FE Circular 26/2014 and the BIDA registration regime for foreign direct investment.

Exit.bd surfaces this requirement at the start of any cross-border deal and our partner network handles the Bangladesh Bank application. Sectors with foreign-investment caps under BIDA’s Reserved List (banking, insurance, telecoms) carry additional scrutiny — we route those earlier.

All buyers complete KYC verification — National ID for Bangladeshi residents, passport plus source-of-funds declaration for foreign buyers — before they can express interest in any listing. To unlock a deal room, a buyer signs a digital NDA bound to that specific listing, and for transactions above BDT 5 crore must additionally lodge proof of funds or a financing letter from a scheduled bank under Bangladesh Bank’s licensing regime. Tyre-kickers do not make it past stage one.

Yes. Every PDF rendered inside an Exit.bd deal room carries a visible diagonal watermark with the requesting buyer’s verified name, the deal reference, and a UTC timestamp. Downloads are equally watermarked and access-logged through Darwan, the KaritKarma authorisation service. If a watermarked document surfaces off-platform, we can identify the leak source to the buyer and the second.

Sellers commit to a published response window when they list — typically five business days for a first reply on a qualified buyer. If a seller goes dark beyond that window, our deal team intervenes; persistent non-engagement results in the listing being suspended. Exit.bd is a marketplace, not a vanity board — sellers who waste verified buyers’ time lose access.

Hold.bd is a regulated escrow service operated by KaritKarma Limited in partnership with Prime Bank PLC, a scheduled bank licensed by Bangladesh Bank. After buyer and seller sign the Sale and Purchase Agreement on Exit.bd, the buyer transfers funds in BDT into a Hold.bd escrow account at Prime Bank.

Funds release against pre-defined milestones — typically the regulatory transfer (RJSC Form 117 stamping under the Companies Act 1994, §38), handover of operational control, and post-close warranty period expiry. Each release requires both parties’ sign-off, or independent verification by a designated milestone witness.

Off-platform circumvention is treated as a material breach of the buyer’s Exit.bd terms. Detection signals include scrubbed contact-info attempts in Secure Chat, watermarked documents leaking, and seller-reported direct outreach. The platform retains a circumvention fee equal to the success fee that would have been due, recoverable as a contractual debt under Bangladeshi law in the courts of Dhaka. The buyer is also banned from future listings.

Hold.bd’s settlement infrastructure runs on Prime Bank PLC’s scheduled-bank rails, which operate to Bangladesh Bank’s availability standards. If a primary instruction window is missed for any reason, the SPA includes a contractual extension to the next banking day with funds remaining held in escrow — neither party is exposed. For outages exceeding two banking days, the SPA permits buyer or seller to invoke a dispute pause and our internal mediation desk intervenes before any release.

Exit.bd charges a tiered success fee on closed deals — 3% to 5% of transaction value, decreasing with deal size, with a minimum of BDT 50,000 per transaction. The fee is shared between buyer and seller by default; parties can negotiate a different split inside the SPA. The fee is invoiced against the closing milestone in Hold.bd escrow — meaning we are paid only when funds release, never up front. The full schedule sits on the pricing page.

Yes — registered brokers and advisors with deal flow into Exit.bd qualify for a tiered referral programme published on our partners page. Brokers must complete KYC, accept the anti-circumvention clauses, and publish a fee disclosure to their introducing party under the same terms KaritKarma applies to itself. Bangladesh Bank’s authorised dealer agents and licensed corporate-finance practices receive preferential terms.

No platform-side hidden fees. Hold.bd charges a separate sliding-scale escrow fee (1% to 2.5% depending on deal size) disclosed on the deal sheet before SPA. RJSC stamp duty under the Stamp Act 1899, BSEC filings where applicable, and any legal fees you incur with your own advisor are pass-through and not billed by us. NBR will issue any tax assessments directly. Exit.bd will quote an estimated all-in cost before you sign anything.

All Exit.bd consideration settles in BDT through Hold.bd escrow at Prime Bank PLC — there is no cross-border wire leg to bridge by hand. For foreign acquirers, the inward remittance route follows Bangladesh Bank’s authorised-dealer regime under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947 and FE Circular 26/2014; the dealer bank issues an encashment certificate that anchors the subsequent share-transfer filing.

Outward repatriation of sale proceeds for non-resident sellers follows the same regime in reverse — we surface the dealer-bank documentation requirement at SPA stage so there is no surprise at exit.

For a private limited company, a share transfer requires (a) a board resolution approving the transfer, (b) execution of Form 117 by transferor and transferee, (c) a transferor affidavit if transferring more than 10% of paid-up capital, (d) RJSC filing within prescribed time limits under §38, and (e) NBR stamp duty under the Stamp Act 1899 schedule. Exit.bd’s deal-room templates handle the document set; final filings are lodged by your appointed RJSC agent.

Most SME transactions on Exit.bd involve private limited companies, exempt from active BSEC oversight provided paid-up capital remains under BDT 10 crore and the company is not listed. Deals involving public-listed issuers, asset management firms or financial institutions trigger BSEC disclosure under the Public Issue Rules 2015 and the Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover Rules — we flag these at the start of the process and require the deal team to engage securities counsel before SPA.