A.M. Mahbub Uddin Khokon is a prominent Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, widely recognized for his leadership within the legal community and his active role in national politics. He has built a reputation as a formidable advocate, particularly in high-profile constitutional and
Early Life and Background
A.M. Mahbub Uddin Khokon was born on 12 January 1956 in Sonapur, Sonaimuri Upazila, Noakhali District, in what was then East Pakistan. He was raised in a family of ten siblings, being the eldest among them. His father was Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed and his mother was Begum Raushan Ara.
Education
Khokon completed his Secondary School Certificate (SSC) from Gopalpur High School in Noakhali, his Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) from Dhaka Government College, and his LL.B from the University of Dhaka. He later pursued higher legal education in the United Kingdom, earning an LL.B (Hons) degree in Wales in 1992. In 1993, he was called to the Bar as a Barrister-at-Law from the prestigious Lincoln’s Inn.
Legal Career
Since 1994, he has been actively working in the legal field. Over the decades, he built a towering reputation as one of Bangladesh’s foremost litigators.
As an elite litigator with more than 25 years of experience practising in the High Court and the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, he has been counsel in over 40 landmark Supreme Court cases reported in various law reports. He is regarded as one of the top advocates advising and representing clients in commercial, banking, insolvency, and white-collar crime disputes, with a clientele that includes several multinationals, local conglomerates, and high-net-worth business personalities.
Mahbub Uddin Khokon has been elected Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association a record seven times and has served as one of fourteen elite members of the Bangladesh Bar Council across two terms.
In March 2024, he was elected President of the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association.
Mahbub & Company
He is the founder and leader of the law firm Mahbub & Company, based in Dhaka. The firm has traditionally been most well-known for its judicial review and white-collar crime litigation, and has been a leading name in dispute resolution in Bangladesh for more than two decades. The firm handles constitutional matters, writs against administrative action, and defends high-profile politicians, businessmen, and executives in corruption, money laundering, and financial fraud cases, with a strong presence in both the Supreme Court and the District Courts of Dhaka and Chittagong.
Political Career
Khokon is a prominent member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He was elected to parliament from the Noakhali-1 (Chatkhil-Sonaimuri) constituency as a BNP candidate in the ninth general election in 2008, serving as a Member of Parliament from 29 December 2008 to 9 January 2014. He also served as the Joint Secretary General of the BNP and as Secretary of the Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad, the BNP-affiliated lawyers’ body.
He has served as the personal lawyer of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, one of the most high-profile legal representations in Bangladeshi politics.
Adversity and Courage
On 15 December 2018, during his election campaign for the upcoming general election, Khokon was shot and wounded by six bullets while campaigning in Sonaimuri Upazila. The incident drew widespread national and international attention and became symbolic of the political tensions surrounding the 2018 general elections.
Personal Life
Khokon and his wife have one daughter and one son. Their son has also followed in his father’s footsteps and qualified as a barrister.
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