This firm specializes in International Taxation especially cross border transactions. There are two kinds of risk that the firm's clients are put to. Firstly, the rate of attrition is very high and this impacts continuity. Secondly, the firm has failed to protect the client privilege information. There has been a major data breach and sensitive and incriminating data of the clients have made it to the government agencies. There is a blog https://nishithdesaiassociates.wordpress.com that has more details on the issues faced by the firm.
Overview:
Nishith Desai Associates was founded in 1989. We are a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Basel and New Delhi. We specialize in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice coupled with industry expertise in an integrated manner. We focus on niche areas in which we provide significant value and are invariably involved in select highly complex, innovative transactions.Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) is a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Basel and New Delhi. We specialize in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice coupled with industry expertise in an integrated manner. We focus on niche areas in which we provide significant value and are invariably involved in select highly complex, innovative transactions. Our key clients include marquee repeat Fortune 500 clientele, of which over 60 per cent are US corporations.
We have recently been adjudged the winner of the Indian Law Firm of the Year 2010 for Technology-Media-Telecom (TMT) by IFLR. We have won the prestigious “Asian-Counsel’s Social Responsible Deals of the Year 2009” by Pacific Business Press, in addition to being Asian-Counsel Firm of the Year 2009 for the practice areas of Private Equity and Taxation in India Indian Business Law Journal listed our Tax, PE & VC and Technology-Media-Telecom (TMT) practices in the India Law Firm Awards 2009 as also Legal 500 (Asia-Pacific) that has ranked us #1 in these practices for 2009-2010. We have been ranked the highest for ‘Quality’ in the Financial Times – RSG Consulting ranking of Indian law firms in 2009. The Tax Directors Handbook, 2009 lauded us for our constant and innovative out-of-the-box ideas. Other past recognitions include being named the Indian Law Firm of the Year 2000 and Asian Law Firm of the Year (Pro Bono) 2001 by the International Financial Law Review, a Euromoney publication. In an Asia survey by International Tax Review (September 2003), we were voted as a top-ranking law firm and recognized for our cross-border structuring work.
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