How a deal moves through Exit.bd · কীভাবে কাজ করে

Five gates between a curious buyer and a closed deal.

An acquisition in Bangladesh is not a checkout flow. Every share transfer answers to the Companies Act 1994 — §117 requires Form 117 lodged with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms within thirty days of execution⁶, and a transferor affidavit must accompany it. Where a foreign person takes control, Bangladesh Bank Foreign Exchange Guidelines §13 layers a separate prior-approval workflow before the share register can be amended⁷.

Exit.bd does not paper over those rules — it surfaces them inside the deal room, on the timeline buyers and sellers see, so the lawyers do not surprise the parties at signing. The five gates below are the path. Nothing is skippable.

The five gates

পাঁচটি ধাপ

01.

যোগ্যতা যাচাই

Eligibility

Both buyer and seller authenticate through Wenme passwordless — national identity card, passport, or business-registration number bound to a verified email and mobile. Beneficial-ownership declarations and proof-of-funds letters from a scheduled bank are captured at this gate, before any teaser is exchanged. Personal data is retained only for the lifetime of an active deal plus a six-year statutory window, in line with §5 of the draft Bangladesh Personal Data Protection Act¹, after which records are destroyed on request.

02.

মিল মেলানো

Match

Investment briefs are compared against listing teasers along six hard filters — asset type, budget band, sector category, jurisdiction, listing state, and a self-not-self exclusion that prevents a seller from matching their own brief. Seven soft axes rank the surviving teasers: industry overlap, deal-size proximity, growth alignment, geographic locus, timeline, requirements fit, and an explicit exclusion list. Nothing is offered to the buyer in ranked order; teasers surface in batches of five².

03.

কথোপকথন

Conversation

Once both sides accept the match, a Q&A thread opens against the teaser and a secure chat opens between principals. Every outgoing message passes a contact-information regex that blocks phone numbers (international and Bangla scripts), email addresses, WhatsApp, Telegram and Facebook handles. Off-platform leakage is the fastest way to lose access to the marketplace³.

We engineered the chat filter against eighteen months of broker scams.

04.

যাচাই-বাছাই

Diligence

After NDA execution, a folder-organised deal room opens — six canonical folders covering Financials, Tax Returns, Operations, Legal, Assets and Miscellaneous. Every PDF and spreadsheet is watermarked at viewer request with the buyer's legal name, IP, and a millisecond timestamp; downloads are logged against the same identity. The room operates inside the BSEC deal-data confidentiality guideline applied to listed-affiliate transactions⁴.

05.

চুক্তি সম্পন্ন

Close

Offers, counter-offers and revisions chain inside the platform with a complete audit trail — no email PDFs, no parallel WhatsApp threads. On acceptance, funds settle into Hold.bd escrow at Prime Bank PLC into a segregated client account, denominated in BDT, and release on milestone: Companies Act 1994 Form 117 lodged with the RJSC, board resolution passed, share certificate endorsed. Hold.bd operates under an escrow licence supervised by Bangladesh Bank⁵.

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Sources

1.Personal Data Protection Act, draft November 2023, ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh — §5 (retention and erasure).

2.Exit.bd matching specification v1.4, internal engineering document, March 2026.

3.Exit.bd Terms of Use §11 — off-platform contact constitutes grounds for suspension.

4.Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, Guideline on Confidentiality of Deal Data in Listed-Affiliate Transactions, 2019.

5.Bangladesh Bank, escrow agent licensing under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947 — Hold.bd licence held under Prime Bank PLC.

6.Companies Act 1994 (Act XVIII of 1994), §117 — register of transfers and Form 117 filing requirement.

7.Bangladesh Bank, Foreign Exchange Guidelines, Volume I, Chapter 9 §13 — transfer of shares involving non-residents.