Impact Law Ventures partner Suhas Baliga peels off to start Innove Law for early-stage VCs alongside lobbying firm

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Impact Law Ventures partner Suhas Baliga left the firm in June to start up Innove Law. Innove Law, as Pankaj Jain’s three-year-old start-up Impact, caters to early stage venture capitalists.

Jain has among his clients consumer feedback portal Akosha, which in June raised Rs 30 crore of funds from Sequoia Capital. Jain declined to comment when contacted by Legally India.

Baliga worked with Luthra & Luthra after graduating from NLSIU Bangalore in 2008, and later moved to Trilegal. He left Trilegal to join Impact as a partner in 2012. At Innove he focuses on investment and corporate advice to growth-stage companies, with a team of two associates.

Innove is working out of the same office building as Impact in Mumbai’s Malad area.

Baliga also started up a policy consulting firm called Policy Crafte in May 2012, according to his Linkedin profile on 22 September. The firm, which has since been removed from his LinkedIn profile, focussed on “Consulting in public affairs, strategy, policy research and advocacy. Advisory services on policy positions, management of relations with government, and representations before public authorities”.

Baliga declined to comment when contacted by Legally India.

Comments

err... 20 Oct 2014, 09:56
+5 -2
The second sentence isn't making sense!
curious cat 20 Oct 2014, 10:24
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Is it fair to call Impact a law firm? Its a one-man firm with no associates. But anyways, kudos to Pankaj for trying something different. Impact has the potential to beat all the other 3-6 yr old startups...
Curious Cat 20 Oct 2014, 10:40
+14 -6
Stop using my name!
Malad? 20 Oct 2014, 11:32
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Lol..office at Malad..good to stay or live or even hangout.. Not have a law firm!! Haha
Concerned 20 Oct 2014, 14:27
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ILV number 11 on deal volume for private equity during first half of 2014. http://www.vccedge.com/league_tables_pe.php If they can do it with so few associates then rest of the bloated law firms should reconsider their business models.
Amused 20 Oct 2014, 18:26
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The rise of ILV speaks volume about what Pankaj is capable of both as a lawyer and an entrepreneur. Amused that out of all the information that was included in the article about ILV(sparse as it may have been) the primary focus of the comments seems to be on rather irrelevant stuff e.g., how the Bombay office of ILV is in Malad.
prlove 21 Oct 2014, 05:35
+7 -19
Bob and PR make a great team. Have worked with Bob in the past and its so good to see this. Superb lawyer, and an even better human being. Amazing stuff.