A record 40 per cent of graduates at a leading Indian law school are now taking up training contracts with international law firms. Around 32 out of 80 students are set to start training contracts with international firms after graduating from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, in June 2009. This compares […]
Norton Rose hunts for Indian trainees” />Norton Rose has opened its trainee programme to newly qualified Indian lawyers and is recruiting directly from India. The firm’s graduate recruitment partner Sam Eastwood (pictured) said Norton Rose had gone directly to several Indian colleges to recruit between three and five trainees for the 2010 intake. “Foreign lawyers […]
Allen & Overy’s Indian referral firm, Trilegal, has lost three of its 10 partners, with the trio leaving to set up an independent firm with a senior banking partner from Indian firm Kochhar & Co. Allen & Overy‘s (A&O) Indian referral firm, Trilegal, has lost three of its 10 partners, with the trio leaving to […]
UK firms are waiting with bated breath for the Indian legal market to liberalise, but by all accounts the country is unlikely to welcome international firms anytime soon. Clifford Chance’s hire of Indian capital markets partner Rahul Guptan from top Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, as reported on TheLawyer.com […]
Clifford Chance has significantly bolstered its Indian group with the hire of a capital markets partner from top Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. Rahul Guptan, who was based in Amarchand’s Mumbai office, will join Clifford Chance’s Singapore office as a partner. Clifford Chance global managing partner David Childs said: […]
Som Mandal, managing partner at Fox Mandal, explains why he supports the liberalisation of the Indian legal market. I completely support the view adopted by the Ministry of Law and Justice in allowing the entry of foreign law firms to the Indian legal services sector to practise foreign law. It is a common phenomenon in […]
In a groundbreaking decision, India’s minister of law has promised that foreign law firms will be allowed to practise in India. Anglo-saxon firms have already been planning their entry to the jurisdiction. India’s minister of law has promised that foreign law firms will be allowed to practise in India. Anglo-saxon law firms have been planning […]
Firms will soon be finding it easier and safer to outsource their legal work to India with the nation’s first Data Protection Bill slated to come into force within the next 12 months. The Indian government has joined forces with members of the county’s IT industry to develop a two-pronged approach to enforcing security and […]
In recent years the thriving industrial markets inAsia have encouraged the legal profession to advance and take advantage of the lucrative opportunities available. India and China have become increasingly important as foreign firms continue to ramp up in China. Meanwhile, over the past 18 months, UK and US firms have been poised at the starting […]
Clifford Chance is appealing an Indian tax tribunal’s decision that it has underpaid on tax It is part of a wide dispute involving other law firms, including Linklaters, and UK tax authorities have been in talks with their Indian counterparts to seek a breakthrough. The Law Society of England and Wales is appealing to the […]