India

Firm Overview

With a heritage rooted in a legacy of legal excellence spanning over 125 years, Fox Mandal & Associates proudly continues the tradition established in 1896. Originally stemming from a distinguished law practice in Kolkata, our firm is a generational offshoot that draws upon the rich history and values of its forefathers. Today, we proudly continue their legacy as an independent entity, upholding the same commitment to integrity, client-centricity, and exceptional legal services.

With a team of over 200 dedicated professionals, including highly experienced attorneys, company secretaries, tax consultants and support staff, spread across 8 offices, we possess the knowledge and resources to handle complex legal matters. From multinational corporations to startups, government entities to private clients, and individuals to family businesses, we serve a broad range of clients across various industry sectors.

Placing our clients at the forefront, we strive to deeply understand their goals, deliver strategic advice, and build enduring partnerships that contribute to their long-term success.

Firm Overview

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., founded on a century of legal achievements, is one of India’s leading full-service law firms. The Firm’s mission is to enable business by providing solutions as trusted advisers through excellence, responsiveness, innovation and collaboration. SAM & Co. is known globally for its exceptional practices in mergers & acquisitions, private equity, competition law, insolvency & bankruptcy, dispute resolution, international commercial arbitration, capital markets, banking & finance, tax, intellectual property, data protection and data privacy, technology law and projects & infrastructure.

The Firm has a pan-India presence and has been at the helm of major headline transactions and litigations in all sectors, besides advising major multinational corporates on their entry into the Indian market and their business strategy. Currently, the Firm has over 812 lawyers including 163 Partners, offering legal services through its offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Chennai

Firm Overview

AP & Partners was founded with a simple and compelling vision: A team of highly experienced lawyers focused on the most significant opportunities and challenges facing our clients. We are chosen by clients because of our experience, depth of knowledge and ability to manage difficult situations. We aim to deliver exceptional value to our clients by providing clear and actionable advice.

We are defined by our approach. We like to work on matters that require the personal attention of our partners. To that end, our associates-to-partner ratio is low. Every mandate that we accept involves at least two of our partners so that our clients benefit from debate and discussion within the team.

We are often engaged to advise on special situations and complex disputes. We also frequently act on corporate transactions such as M&A, joint ventures, equity and debt financing, and business transfers. Our clients include founders, domestic and international businesses ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to multinational corporations as well as financial institutions, PE & VC funds.

Firm Overview

1. About DSK Legal

DSK Legal was set up in 2001 and has since established an excellent reputation for its integrity and value-based proactive, pragmatic and innovative legal advice and its ability to help clients effectively traverse the complicated legal and regulatory regime in India. With offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Pune, DSK Legal has grown rapidly on the strength of its expertise to a multi-disciplinary team with 58 partners and associate partners, and about 300 fee earners. We are modern, agile, and inclusive in our outlook with a solution-oriented approach. We strongly promote diversity of thought, because we believe it helps us build strong teams with varied approaches and ideas to offer solutions that clients value.

At DSK Legal, we believe in establishing strong and enduring relationships with our clients by ensuring that we are always available to attend to our clients’ needs. It is always our endeavour to understand our clients’ commercial goals. We are transparent in our working and commit ourselves to time-bound and cost-effective advice that protects our client’s interests.

The reputation that we have so strenuously built for ourselves has led to us being appointed by market leading international and domestic businesses on several path breaking deals and critical disputes work. Our advice is sought repeatedly by Governments, and this valuable interaction has in turn helped us establish a significant knowledge base within our firm – a base that we tap into for the benefit of our clients.

Our commitment to our clients and work, attention to detail, transparent approach and formidable expertise in various areas of corporate and commercial law has not only won us recognition and awards from our peers and professional bodies, but has also attracted some of the best talent from leading law schools in India and abroad to work with us. We have strong relations with several international and domestic law firms in most jurisdictions across the world, which helps us provide clients with assistance in cross-border matters, or sometimes just introductions that our clients value.

2. Our Core Values

Commitment | to excellence in the quality of our work and exceeding client expectations | to fairness and integrity in all our dealings | to inspiring our people to achieve their professional aspirations.

Constant emphasis on the clients’ individual needs is one of our core values, which makes us a client-focused rather than a product or service-focused law firm. The lawyers at our Firm have been trained with a multi-specialist approach, and exhibit collegiate attributes and commercial awareness. This helps them go beyond a silo blinkered approach and cater to a broad range of client issues which are often spread across industries and legal topics. At times when markets are dynamic and practices are novel, the versatility of our lawyers enables us to offer our clients calibrated commercial solutions with a degree of creativity and innovation, while keeping the bigger picture in perspective. The resulting astute understanding of the client and its business help us in suggesting a workable solution in alignment with its commercial aspirations and in developing a more profound long-term relationship with them.

Firm Overview

Firm Overview

LexOrbis is a premier full-service IP law firm with over 260 personnel, including 150+ attorneys at its Indian offices in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad. The firm provides client-oriented and cost-effective solutions for the protection, enforcement, transaction, and commercialisation of all forms of intellectual property in India and globally.

The firm has been consistently ranked amongst the Top 5 IP firms in India over the past decade and is well-known for managing global patent, designs and trademark portfolios of many technology companies and brand owners. The firm has dedicated teams to cater to the IP lifecycle, including attorneys, engineers, scientists, and specialists to deal with patent, trademark and copyright filing, research, portfolio building and management, enforcement, protection, spotting, transacting, procurement, and consultation.

Our operations are also driven by the years of expertise our team brings into the fold. In the past year, LexOrbis has successfully integrated a remarkable team of attorneys holding vast industry experience and IP acumen. Our subject matter experts include seasoned attorneys, engineers, agents, scientists, and technical specialists.

The firm has over 120 patent attorneys across engineering and science practice groups. The attorneys hold industry expertise and proficiency in the fields of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, information and communication technologies (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, big data, mechanical, electrical & electronics, chemical and pharmaceutical, biotechnology, microbiology, and energy management. The firm also has efficaciously advised and represented a wide spectrum of clients in industries such as automotive, aerospace, biosimilars, consumer products, defence equipment, media and entertainment, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, seeds and agro-chemical products, food and beverages, fashion, sports, aviation, and Fin-Tech.

With a pool of more than 30 trademark attorneys, the firm has recurrently partnered with leading global brand owners to advise them on their entire IP lifecycle management – from ideation to enforcement. The team also includes IP litigators and investigators to ensure prompt measures for online/offline searches, trademark oppositions, cancellation, infringement and passing off, and other litigation actions. Our professionals have notable experience handling trademark matters in areas such as legal metrology, drugs & cosmetics, food safety, media & entertainment, fashion, sports, e-commerce, data protection, privacy and persona rights, advertisement, and consumer protection.