Khaitan & Co.

Overview:

Khaitan & Co. is a dedicated law firm in India with offices in Bangalore, Calcutta, Mumbai, and New Delhi.
Founded in 1911, Khaitan & Co is one of the oldest Indian law firms. It combines a rich heritage of over a hundred years with modern, cutting edge and solution-oriented legal practice and offers full service legal solutions to its domestic and international clients. The firm has a strength of 310 fee earners, including 68 partners in four offices.

Main Areas Of Practice:

The firm is one of India’s most recognised full-service law firms offering specialised advisory services to clients across all Indian law practice areas. The firm’s objective has always been to cater to the needs of its clients in the best manner possible, which has in turn led to strategic decisions to open newer offices and introduce new practice areas. The emphasis of the firm now is to ensure that its clients have access to a consistently high quality of service across all its locations and practice areas. The firm has also received several awards and recognitions in recent times, some of which include:
•Best Capital Market Law Firm of the Year, Legal Era Awards 2013
•Law Firm of the Year in India, Corporate International Legal Awards 2013
•Best Overall Law Firm, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Indian Team of the Year-Private Equity, India Business Law Journal – Indian Law Firm Awards 2013
•Indian Team of the Year – Private Equity, International Financial Law Review – Asialaw India Awards 2012
•Firm of the Year 2012 – Mumbai and Calcutta, International Financial Law Review – Asialaw India Awards 2012
•Best Overall Law Firms, India Business Law Journal – Indian Law Firm Awards 2011
•Best Private Equity Law Firm of the Year, Legal Era Awards 2011-12
•Legal Advisor of the Year, Asian Venture Capital Journal Awards 2011 India

Over the years the firm has attracted and retained some of the best legal talent in India to provide the high quality legal counsel expected from it across all spheres of commerce and industry. The strategic hiring of partners has resulted in the addition of new practice areas, strengthening the existing practice areas and also bringing in the best international practices. Its clients include business and financial enterprises, large business houses, banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, government bodies, educational and charitable trusts, cultural institutions, individuals, and estates and trusts from India and overseas. Khaitan & Co is an exclusive member of Meritas in India. Meritas is a worldwide alliance of more than 170 independent commercial law firms located in over 60 countries, membership to which is purely by invitation.
Contacts: Haigreve Khaitan (partner) Rabindra Jhunjhunwala (partner)

Areas of Practice

Banking & Finance
Capital Markets
Competition/Antitrust
Corporate/Commercial & M&A
Dispute Resolution
Environment
Estate Planning, Trusts & Private Clients
Funds
Hospitality
Intellectual Property
Infrastructure, Energy & Natural Resources
Labour & Employment
Private Equity
Real Estate
Taxation (Direct & Indirect)
Technology, Media & Telecom

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