Majmudar & Partners is a medium-sized, high-quality corporate and financial law firm that excels in corporate and M&A, private equity, and labour and employment areas. On the deal side, the firm is not a volume player as its clients engage the team for sophisticated and complex transactions. Peers acknowledge its labour and employment practice, which is led by Neerav Merchant and Raja Sujith Niruthambath. The firm and its managing partner Akil Hirani are well regarded in the Mumbai market. In the past 12 months, the firm has seen good growth in the non-banking financial company sector on regulatory advice, fintech, finance deals and M&A transactions. In addition, the team’s banking litigation and IP practice continues to develop.
Client feedback
“The team is very responsive and provides elaborate answers to questions. They give clear-cut advice in respect of Indian law.” – Banking and finance
“They are extremely responsive and provide detailed, practical advice.” – Labour and employment
“Recommended for their strategic thinking, deep technical knowledge and ability to help me execute the developed plan.” – Labour and employment
“The Majmudar team was diligent and creative in helping us solve the issues that presented themselves throughout the various iterations that the "role" took.” – Labour and employment
Sinjini Majumdar
“Very responsive, always meets a deadline, provides clear-cut advice and has excellent drafting skills.”
“Sinjini provides extremely quick responses that are detailed and accurate.”
Ravi Raghavan
“Consummate professional.”
“Ravi was focused on getting to the best solution.”
Work highlights
Provided employment law advice to LifeWorks in connection with its Indian subsidiary.
Assisted the Cigna Group on employment termination matters at its Indian subsidiary.
Engaged by numerous companies such as Cass Information India, CompuCom Systems, Polygon Labs Services, EisnerAmper, Equisoft India, Five Elms Capital Management, Frontdoor, Iconectiv, Teekay Shipping and InsentApp India for India-related employment law advice.
Work highlights
Assisted Nordea Danmark in a sizable cross-financing of a spices business.
Acted for Elementis Holdings to amend its loan agreement with its foreign holding company to revise the interest benchmark rate from US dollar Libor.
Key clients
Axis Bank, Demant, Dhanlaxmi Bank.
