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The 2019 print and digital edition of Legally India is a joint publication by Global Legal Media and Legally India. The issue introduces the InLegal 50, an annual fully-transparent tracking of India’s corporate law firms. Other topics include updates on vital practice areas and jurisdictions, plus:
A major part of Legally India’s core mission has always been transparency. When we first set up in 2009, the domestic legal market was largely shrouded in secrecy and could be understood only by tapping into an arcane flow of information and rumours spread via professional networks.
“M&A is the mainstay of any small or large corporate firm’s practice,” states Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi corporate partner Amit Khansaheb, one of the InLegal 50’s top dealmakers of the financial year 2018-19.
A law firm is only ever as good as the collection of its partners. The analysis that follows recognises not just individual rainmaking and execution, but leadership and teamwork from everyone involved.
At least 17 insolvency deals under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code brought significant work to Indian law firms in our tables in the 2018-19 financial year, with deal values of $20.5bn.
The proof of most things lies in the pudding, and for a good corporate lawyer, your pudding begins and ends with the kind of work that clients entrust you with.
Equity capital markets can be a tough practice area for a law firm to manage. When the going is good, there aren’t enough lawyers; when the markets sleep, utilisation and profits plummet.
Foreign law firms too have had a bumper year in India, with the vast majority of public instructions linked to relationships with marquee private equity clients, which were very hot on India this year.
For years, the Indian legal profession – particularly litigation – has been dominated by men, and most of the new law firms that rose in the nineties and noughties were headed by men.
