Ashurst bestie ILP hires 2nd Mumbai partner with sports lawyer Kiran Desai

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Wednesday, 20 July 2016 By Legally India Law firms

Desai to bring celeb clients and TMT work to ILP

International firm Ashurst’s local best friend Indian Law Partners (ILP) has hired sports and media lawyer Kiran Desai in Mumbai to head up its intellectual property, media, entertainment and sports law practice.

Desai had founded his own firm, KAD Legal, in 2007 after working for a year at the Chambers of Shyam Divan and having been a DSK Legal associate between 2003 and 2005.

He is a 2004 GLC Mumbai graduate and holds an LLM from Georgetown University Washington.

ILP’s head office is in Delhi, while in Mumbai Desai is the second partner alongside partner Kanika Premnarayen.

Delhi-based ILP managing partner Gopika Pant commented: “We are really happy to welcome Kiran to ILP and join us as a colleague. While we have added intellectual property, media, entertainment & sports law verticals to ILP, we continue to maintain our boutique status, maintaining focus on high quality work, client satisfaction and striking the difficult work-life balance required for sustained growth and professional development of our lawyers.

“We are looking to develop a sound litigation practice, Kiran brings experience in this too, so now we can add a few more practice areas to train our lawyers during their first couple of years of working, very similar to training contracts offered by international law firms.”

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Comments

Chintoo 20 Jul 2016, 14:11

+4 -3

This headline makes it read as if Ashurst did the hiring as opposed to a third tier law firm. Really, Kian, time to clean up your act.

personal grudge 21 Jul 2016, 01:54

+3 -1

'third tier law firm'? - seems someone has personal grudge again ILP/ its Partners.

xx 21 Jul 2016, 05:08

+1 -0

what did he do for LI publishing? Kiran didn't prepare the write up. He is a bright lawyer in whatever interactions i have had with him. Stop acting like a 75 year old waiting to criticize on everything.

kianganz 21 Jul 2016, 06:32

+2 -0

Dear troll, please explain. What is it you have a problem with in 'Ashurst bestie ILP hires XYZ'? Seems very obvious who is doing the hiring to me, and very obvious who is whose best friend...

explain 21 Jul 2016, 07:14

+0 -2

Kian - what do you mean by 'Seems very obvious who is doing the hiring to me'? SO you mean to say that Ashurst instucted ILP to hire Kiran? I can not buy that! Can you please throw some light on this?

kianganz 21 Jul 2016, 07:18

+5 -1

The headline's literal reading is: Ashurst's Indian best friend law firm Indian Law Partners (ILP) has hired XYZ.

It's as though you were to say: Britain's ally, the US, has elected Donald Trump as its president.

Out of interest, which part of the headline is making people think that Ashurst has done anything in this, other than be a firm's 'bestie'? (which may imply they were probably informed of the hire beforehand, but probably not much else)

VCD 21 Jul 2016, 09:12

+1 -3

Its something like Apple's Indian Attorney hired a senior Associate. This has more weightage than ABC hires a Senior Associate. You cant expect much from LI. Had they not used name "Ashrut" no one would have bothered to even look at this piece.

kianganz 21 Jul 2016, 09:55

This is clearly quite a bizarre discussion.

But in the spirit of trolling, would love your opinion on some of these of our previous very similar headlines? Also confusing? Do any of those look like it is the first-named entity that's doing the action?

ALMT breakaway Clasis captures second partner from UK best friend Clyde & Co

Ashurst & India best friend ILP advise Toshiba’s $20m clean water entry opposite DSK

KPMG friend Advaita poaches ex-LKS Madhav Rao from consultant best-friend BMR Legal

Trolling the Trolls 21 Jul 2016, 10:16

Kian, you dont worry about these trolls. They seem to be jealous of ILP Growth considering they have enough time to actually write bizarre comments!!!

VCD 21 Jul 2016, 11:20

+0 -3

Come on, Except it. LI is doing nothing but to get more hits by using big names. Others have done it so there is nothing wrong in it! Good Luck !

CVD 22 Jul 2016, 08:36

+0 -0

Accept* it.

Headline grabber 22 Jul 2016, 19:58

Kian, some really daft people visit and comment on your website. Seems they have never seen a headline -- any headline -- before.

(Trolls: try this: INDIA TO IMPORT LEGGY CHICKS FROM US....the story would be about India considering allowing import of poultry, esp the leg pieces, which are prized here, but discarded in the US for the fillet portion. I'm sure trolls frequenting LI would be salivating at that headline...maybe, just maybe, the odds against their chances of scoring would reduce from a billion to 999 million!!

BTW this headline had appeared in the TOI many years ago, and poultry imports from US again is in the news.So are your chances of getting off, you jerks.

kianganz 22 Jul 2016, 20:08

hah! :)

PO1 23 Jul 2016, 05:32

I think it's quite obvious LI uses these catchy headlines to draw readers to articles which would otherwise just get 1-2 comments or views.
Look again.."ASHURST (foreign firm), HIRES, LAWYER) contains all the keywords which interest the average joe reader. The rest (...) are non-entities, (...) or just too boring to attract eyeballs.

I mean, seriously?

I see that whenever Kiann gets called out for shady tactocs he resorts by calling others "Troll'

Tsk tsk tsk. :) Bad boy Kian

kianganz 23 Jul 2016, 05:45

+0 -1

Well done, that is literally exactly what a headline to a news story is supposed to do, as well as impart information and context. I'll just congratulate myself for a job well done then, yes?

Guest 20 Jul 2016, 14:30

+1 -1

ILP is expanding. Good to know. First time partner level hiring without clients or has Kiran come with his own books?

Goodgoing 20 Jul 2016, 19:33

After Piyoosh and Gaurav's departures, finally someone came in. Hmm. Hope it goes well.

Neminath 21 Jul 2016, 03:23

"Desai had founded his own firm, KAD Legal, in 2007 after working for a year at the Chambers of Shyam Divan and having been a DSK Legal associate between 2003 and 2005.

He is a 2004 GLC Mumbai graduate and holds an LLM from Georgetown University Washington."

Please correct. Per your report, Mr. Desai graduated in 2004, so,how can he be an associate with DSK Legal between 2003-05?

kianganz 21 Jul 2016, 06:34

Pre-solicitorship articles I assume? (unless I took the wrong numbers from Linked-in)

Exclusive? 21 Jul 2016, 03:55

Kian, is the referral exclusive? Can Ashurst go to other firms as well?

Non exclusive, but I assume Ashurst instructs them for a lot of their India matters (though probably not literally all of them).

Guest 21 Jul 2016, 06:13

Kiran is quite the celebrity himself.. Good for ILP

Anti-Presstitute 27 Jul 2016, 07:43

This is how these Presstitute kills a story. Look at the headline starting with "Ashurst bestie"... is int seems something fishy. ILP needs Ashurst? to get recognition?

kianganz 27 Jul 2016, 08:40

Lol. Been watching too much Arnab lately?

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