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Most professionals, and especially those at boutique law firms with limited resources, simply don’t have the time to produce podcasts. If you’ve ever been involved in organizing a webinar for a reputable law firm, you’ll know how many hours of effort and coordination go into it. I can only imagine that creating a podcast requires even more work, given the need for deeper discussion engagement.
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While it's surprising that a practicing lawyer has time to churn out so many podcasts, ykiyk, kudos for the effort. Wish him the best.
Rishab Gupta, Nakul Dewan, Gourab Banerjee. These are all Indian firms and practitioners who actually represent India or foreign parties in international disputes. Also, there is no international law practitioner in India, including this firm. International law mostly refers to public international law. What they’re talking about is international arbitration and investor-state arbitration. Don’t take sides when you don’t know the basics.
PQE- 2 years
( Not Corporate law team!)
What CTC should I ask for?
Then comes 2,3,4 ranks....
There are three CM teams in CB, Viplaw, Khushali and one is a generalist team under Sanjay Buch.
The culture in the former two teams is questionable, the latter one is nicer but no hardcore CM work.
The learning is amazing, Saturdays are not off. The workload is significant. The associates are friendly, of the partner is very difficult to work with (may be subjective).
They are offering 9+variable.
They have a 3 year bond in place.
The team is VERY overworked, they do not have a senior associate. There is the partner and then directly people with 3-4 years PQE, which can sometimes make things tricky. (This is due to the attrition which is self-explanatory).
It breaks your confidence to be treated like that as a first-year lawyer, and I wish I had joined a Tier 2/3 firm at a lesser pay but with better stability and people.
The rest of the JSA should learn dressing sense and presentation from them.
But their Chandigarh practice is Tax only.
And just because other law firms are also partaking in this gross violation, doesn’t make S&R any better.
Also, does KCo do the same?
In terms of :-
1. Pay Scale
2. Work Culture etc.
This includes listed instruments issued via private placement (similar to QIPs on ECM side) and listed instruments issued via public issue (debt IPO / FPO basically). There is also foreign bond issuances where Indian counsels are involved (RegS/144A issuances). There aren't many teams that do all these regularly. For example TTA has a team that specialises in foreign bond issuances, even JSA does I think. Most banking and finance teams also dabble in privately places listed debt issuances. Only a few do public issue of NCDs.
Finding a team that does ECM and DCM together will be good if you intend to be a capital markets lawyer. It's anyday good to diversify.
The DCM team in KCo does all sorts of matters (listed NCDs (private placement and public issue), municipal bonds, foreign bonds, etc.). They have also worked on a few ECM deals sprinkled here and there. There must be other T1s also similarly placed.
However this field is very methodic and process oriented. Not much innovation or scope for doing bespoke transactions (unless you are doing structured finance deals, restructuring etc.).
WLB is non existent in most T1s DCM/B&F teams as banking / dcm lawyers are expected to meet unreasonable deadlines and unless you have a partner who can set the boundaries with the clients, you'll have long weekends and ruined holidays. Some firms manage this better some are worse. Depends on the team and partner like always. Compensation is on the better side because there is always workflow (except foreign bonds, where work can stop suddenly) and DCM teams mostly always also do B&F work as well.
I don’t mean in terms of student elections (since NLUs don’t have such organised political elections) but in terms of general ideology and student activities. At NLUs, I would say Gen X and Gen Y were more Marxist, but Gen Z is heavily Marxist-Leninist-Ambedkarite.
As I understand it, the Marxist faction at JNU is Bengali and Malayali -dominated, plus draws people from urban India and English-speaking backgrounds. It is cosmopolitan and internationalist, and pays more attention to class than caste. They pay a lot of attention to theory. They look up to Gramsci, Althusser, Spivak etc and see the subaltern as dominated by capitalist exploitation. The Marxist-Leninist-Ambedkarite faction is Bihar-UP-Telangana backward caste dominated, plus mostly rural students. It is is radical and regional, since casteism has historically been dominant in these states and in rural India. They look up to people like Periyar, Kanshi Ram, Lalu Yadav etc and believe in confrontation and earthy language, giving more attention to praxis than theory. They see English-language writings on class as capital as elitist. We got a demo of this during the infamous Gayatri Spivak lecture at JNU, when she scolded a Dalit student from Bihar for not pronouncing DuBois correctly. He gave it back to her on X, calling her a “Brahmin bh and b**d” and pointing to her caste privilege. Prof Ajay Gudavarthy explained the issue in The Wire.
https://m.thewire.in/article/caste/the-gayatri-spivak-controversy-exploring-the-implosion-of-subalternity-in-public-discourse/amp