IndusLaw hires first CEO: Jayanarayanan NR to join from Link Legal to streamline ‘rapid growth aspirations’

Jay NR joins Indus as CEO
Jay NR joins Indus as CEO

Link Legal India Law Services’ former chief executive officer (CEO) Jayanarayanan NR, who had left earlier this month to relocate to Mumbai, has joined IndusLaw as CEO according to authoritative sources.

He had joined Link Legal from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in 2016, where he had worked from 2010.

He had previously worked at Deutsche Bank, Tech Mahindra, Syntel and GE between 2002 and 2010 and holds a Bachelor of Science, a BTech, an MBA and a Master of Business Law from NLSIU Bangalore.

Update 13:55: Indus senior partners Suneeth Katarki and Gaurav Dani commented in a statement:

Jay brings a lot of management experience to the table, especially in the law firm space and we look forward to having him on-board. IndusLaw has been growing at a rapid pace and Jay’s addition will help us strategize our growth plans & streamline management practices and structures to enable the next level of progression of the Firm.”

Jayanarayanan added in the release: “I am very happy to be a part of IndusLaw and I look forward to working with Partners on the Firm’s growth aspiration.”

Comments

Acat 12 Oct 2019, 10:10
+15 -9
What is the role of a CEO exactly in a "eat what you kill" firm like IndusLaw?
bakwasi baba 12 Oct 2019, 12:04
+8 -0
only admin - what decision will the promoters/senior partners let him take
Guest 12 Oct 2019, 12:55
+34 -1
He gets to eat without killing.
Indus Insider 12 Oct 2019, 17:17
+6 -4
@ Acat: Who told you its an "eat what you kill" model? It isnt.
good cop 12 Oct 2019, 12:49
+10 -3
now indus has a bad cop
GL2 12 Oct 2019, 16:33
+2 -0
Please elaborate...
kianganz 12 Oct 2019, 16:36
+3 -0
Surely, to some extent, the job descriptions for CEO and management roles at lots of law firms probably specify a bit of a bad cop requirement?
Query 12 Oct 2019, 17:02
+14 -3
The question is why would anyone stand a non fee earning bad cop in a "eat what you kill" firm...the partners who the bad cop is required to control effectively pays his salary
law maker 13 Oct 2019, 02:50
+18 -10
Well deserve! indus law will get lot's of benefit from his experience...
law maker 13 Oct 2019, 04:10
+19 -17
Jay is Star..
mARK MY wORDs 13 Oct 2019, 11:26
+21 -1
Good Luck Indus! [...] best thing he did in LL was to make saturday a holiday.
vagato 15 Oct 2019, 09:11
+3 -0
How many firms have Saturdays as Holiday ?
Great Hire 14 Oct 2019, 06:12
+15 -1
Firms hiring CEO shows that the Indian legal market is slowly but surely maturing. Glad to see partners recognising the need to hire a professional to help them manage a law firm - This frees up partners time to do where they can generate highest ROE on their time ie get more work!!
Congratulations to everyone!!
GoIndusGO 14 Oct 2019, 07:17
+9 -10
This is one of the best decisions made by Indus. This would surely help the Firm improve not only image but the Firm Culture.
Firmie 14 Oct 2019, 09:41
+11 -0
The culture of a Firm is made by its lawyers and not by someone who heads Admin. A CEO's task is simply to take admin issues away from the partners so that they can focus on the practice of law.
GoIndusGO 16 Oct 2019, 08:26
+4 -3
You are mistaken my friend. CEO is not there only for Admin. Also, Lawyers dont make culture of the Firm.
Biker 14 Oct 2019, 09:56
+8 -1
Would he be taken [b]as[/b] seriously as Partners of the Mumbai office ? Wink wink !!
PM Modi 14 Oct 2019, 13:41
+15 -1
Best Decision By Firm(Indus) and Jay.. Regards, Narendra Modi
good cop 14 Oct 2019, 15:34
+2 -0
this is almost like a merger given the number of new people as against the existing size
of the indus firm
they obviously need an outsider like him who has seen older firms
atleast he doesnt pretend to be a confidant and holds himself out as HR
Alias 15 Oct 2019, 05:09
+3 -2
Only time will tell if a CEO can help Indus or any other law firm for that matter. From what I know, it's not like Indus was a 15 member firm before Manan's team joined. They have added another practice area and the firm was quite a reasonably big number before that anyway. The merger comment may not be that relevant in that context.
Guest 15 Oct 2019, 08:26
+5 -0
But why are we not talking about LL. Isn't it a big loss for them after exit of BD head & CEO. Who is next?
Guy from LL 15 Oct 2019, 08:55
+3 -4
we are quite happy here!
L & Garlic 15 Oct 2019, 09:09
+25 -2
They are a hopeless bunch anyways. Even when the entire office quits, the top 2 will sit around over chai samosa and claim nothing has affected them & there has been no damage. They are happy in their own small world.
They never knew why they needed a CEO but still got him.. and when they got him onboard, they didn't know how to use him or what to do with his ideas and strategies, and now that they have lost him they will still quip that nothing has affected them.
The second in command came back from his vanvaas and claims that the firm has lost its sheen, even though it has done fantastically well without his day to day interference, and now he wishes to implement his new found useless wisdom for the betterment of the firm.. which actually nobody is interested to even bother with. They never really had any vision and will never have one in future also.. it is all about selling potatoes and making money to satisfy their own ambitions at the cost of every other lawyer in the firm. Lawyers in the firm keep looking at a picture of a rosy future that the management keeps selling it to them on the pretext of some pennies as bonus. The partners with merit have quit and moved on.. maybe some more will join the fray in the coming days.
Kaddu 15 Oct 2019, 10:49
+0 -1
Make up your mind dude, are they doing ‘fantastically well’ or are they a ‘hopeless bunch’? You seems to be suggesting both in your comment. I hope you don’t draft like you troll!
Kaddu ka katega 15 Oct 2019, 13:48
+5 -2
Hehhee.. well in Trolls defense.. at least he/ she doesn’t draft with English like “You seem(s)..” Clearly Kaddu ji has exhibited his/her firm’s pedigree here.

I am sure the existing and past LLites will agree that one can surely make sense of “hopeless bunch” & “fantastically well” in the overall context of what has transpired in the firm over the past few years. There’s something known as reference to context as well.

But then.. you dream on.. it’s ok.

I liked the vanvaas bit though.
Guest 15 Oct 2019, 15:36
+0 -0
Where did you get your name from....L & Garlic....you are too good...bhai tu bhagwan hai....
Unlinklegal 4 Nov 2019, 15:23
+1 -0
Did Jay give 3 month notice period as he used to ask others to give ?

Link Legal is preparing for its doomsday