The brothers behind dissolved Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co have launched two separate firms less than a week after confirming the dissolution of the family business. Older brother Shardul Shroff and his wife Pallavi have taken the Delhi arm of the old firm to launch Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & […]
When Indian firm Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A Shroff & Co splits in two on 1 April this year it will bring an end to the history of one of India’s oldest and best-known law firms. Set up in 1917 by Amarchand Shroff, the firm has been controlled by the Shroff family ever since, with management […]
Indian firm J Sagar Associates (JSA) has expanded its domestic footprint with the addition of an office in Gujarati city Ahmedabad. The office is the firm’s seventh and adds to its presences in Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. The new base will be led by partner Bijal Chhatrapati, a disputes and corporate […]
Indian technology boutique TMT Law Practice has expanded its offering in the Chennai market by taking over local firm APR Associates. The New Delhi-headquartered firm already has a five-lawyer office in the South India city, the capital of Tamil Nadu, but this has been increased to 13 following the deal. TMT partner Rajesh Ramanathan, who […]
Osborne Clarke has signed a relationship deal with new Indian firm BTG Legal, led by its former India group head Prashant Mara. The structure of the deal meets the stringent Indian regulatory rules, which allow foreign firms to ‘fly in and fly out’ to provide legal advice but not have their own offices on the […]
Newly elected Narendra Modi’s commitment to domestic change, along with world economic trends, promise to make India attractive to investors again In association with History will look back on 2014 as the year the India story changed tack. For some years now, stories out of India have focused on inflation, poor economic policy, flagging growth, […]
DLA Piper’s co-head for its India group Biswajit Chatterjee is to join Squire Patton Boggs in a similar Singapore-based role alongside London partner Dharmendra Nair. Chatterjee joined Squires’ Singapore office earlier this week. He specialises in corporate finance, capital markets, private equity and M&A transactions in Asia with a particular focus on India, Indonesia, Thailand […]
Essex Court Chambers is taking on Gourab Banerji as an overseas associate in a sign of the bar’s increasing focus on the Indian market. Banerji was called to the bar in 1990 and was designated a senior advocate, the Indian equivalent of Queen’s Counsel in 2003. Until May he was an additional solicitor general of […]
It’s been a difficult few years in India, with political turmoil and the spectre of corruption crippling the country’s business sector. Against that backdrop even the country’s leading firms have had a tough time. With the election of a new prime minister earlier this year, however, the political paralysis has begun to ease and one […]
Elite Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas has expanded its office network with the launch of a base in Gurgaon. The city, which is in the National Capital Region in the state of Haryana, is located 20 miles from the capital New Delhi and is where over half the companies listed on the Fortune 500 have […]
Political chaos has deterred foreign investors, but lawyers hope new prime minister Narendra Modi can create a more business-friendly environment With political turmoil bringing business activity in India to a virtual standstill this year, even the country’s leading firms have felt the pinch. Scandals such as the allocation of 2G spectrum licences effectively brought policy-making […]
South East firm Dutton Gregory has launched an India practice, hoping to gain leverage from the region’s sizeable Asian community. The venture follows the July 2009 launch of the Southampton India Business Network, which promotes business within the region’s Indian community as well as between Southampton and India. India practice group head Amarjit Singh said the focus […]