India

Firm Overview

Juris Arena, a specialized corporate law firm in Bengaluru, offers practical legal solutions for intricate business requirements. The firm’s team of seasoned lawyers with collective over 40 years of experience provide legal advice related to Infrastructure & Real Estate, Funds Practice, M&A, TMT, Corporate Governance & Restructuring, Employment, FinTech & Banking; PE & JV and Dispute Resolution. We represent emerging and multinational corporations engaged in the new-age tech, automobile, BFSI, capital goods, energy, FinTech, healthcare & medical technology, IT, media, retail & e-commerce, textile, telecom, real estate sectors, and more.

Soumitra Banerjee, Partner, has over 15 years of experience in M&A, Joint Ventures, Corporate Commercial transactions and Corporate Finance. Anjali Haridas, Associate Partner, holds a decade’s experience in Debt Finance, Securitization, Microfinance, Corporate Governance & Regulatory, and Employment laws. Vidyashree KS, Partner has over 18 years of experience in real estate laws, international laws, transaction structuring and family laws.

Firm Overview

A full-service law firm, Dhir & Dhir Associates was founded in 1993 to serve as a single-window service provider in a dynamic commercial environment. The firm pursues a philosophy of symbiotic relationships with clients and works as an integral part of the client’s team. It partners with lawyers across India and has global strategic alliances to provide legal services amongst diverse practice areas and industry verticals.

The Managing Partner of the firm started the practice of insolvency in the early 80s when distress asset advisory was practically unknown in the Indian context.  The firm has been a leading practitioner for the last four decades in all the legal and regulatory structures relating to resolution of corporate insolvency including BIFR, CDR, S4A, SARFAESI, DRT and M&A in the distressed assets.  This experience and expertise has propelled the Firm to become one of the leading law firms practicing in the corporate advisory and representation before NCLT, NCLAT, High Courts and Supreme Court of India relating to matters under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016.

Firm Overview

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (cam) is India’s leading law firm with a global reputation of being trusted advisers to its clients. The Firm advises a large and diverse set of clients, including domestic and foreign commercial enterprises, financial institutions, private equity and venture capital funds, start-ups, government and regulatory bodies.

The Firm generalists, specialists and senior ex-regulators expertly guide clients across a spectrum of transactions, sectors and regulations. With 1000 lawyers and 160 Partners, the Firm is the largest full-service law firm in India and offices in key business centres at Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chennai, GIFT City and also in Singapore.

The Firm received “Innovation in Advancing Markets” award at the FT Innovative Lawyers Asia Pacific 2022, the “National Law Firm of the Year: India” award at the IFLR Asia Pacific 2022 awards ceremony and “Firm of the Year” at the IFLR1000 India Awards in 2022.

Firm Overview

Firm Overview

Our services

JSA is a leading national law firm in India with more than 600 professionals operating out of seven offices located in: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi.

Our practice is organised along service lines and sector specialisations that provides legal services to top Indian corporates, Fortune 500 companies, multinational banks and financial institutions, governmental and statutory authorities, and multilateral and bilateral institutions.

Why we are unique

With a keen focus on learning and specialised practices, we keep in touch with the changing environment in which our clients operate. We take pride in combining the expertise and diversity of experience of a large firm with the personalised attention and responsiveness of a boutique firm. Our lawyers work seamlessly across practice areas and offices to assist our clients.

Our commitment

Through our commitment to social responsibility, we serve our communities by rendering “pro bono” legal services and supporting social responsibility initiatives. Our work in the pro bono space extends to assisting on the formulation of community sensitive and meaningful policies, laws and legal frameworks to facilitate economic and social development at the national, regional, city and neighbourhood levels.

We walk the talk

JSA’s vision is to be the finest Indian law firm strengthened by our core values: exceed client expectations; integrity in whatever we do; belief that “people matter”; an understanding that we best serve our clients with teamwork and collaboration; and ensuring that we constantly update our domain knowledge and expertise. We honour and pursue diversity. We invest in our attorneys with focused continuing legal education and training in industry related issues and soft skills.

Client focus

Our practice has been organised into three clusters – Corporate, Finance, and Disputes with 30 service lines. We serve our clients through partner-led teams with domain knowledge across 20 sectors: Agriculture & forestry; banking & financial services; capital markets & securities; construction and engineering; defence & internal security; education; energy – power & hydrocarbon; hospitality, tourism & retail; insurance & pension; investment funds and asset management; life sciences, healthcare and pharma; manufacturing, mines & minerals; non-governmental sector; real estate; services; technology; media & sports; telecommunications & broadcasting; transport & logistics; urban infrastructure; smart cities; public procurement.

Firm Overview

Pioneer Legal is a law firm rendering wide range of legal services in the areas of corporate and commercial laws including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, insurance, technology law, media and entertainment, financial services, dispute resolution and employment laws. Our lawyers are amongst the best in their respective practice areas and echo the firm’s philosophy of being solution oriented and client centric. We encourage and provide our lawyers the environment to grow personally and professionally.

We have adopted the moniker “Pioneer Legal” with a single-minded determination to sway away from the stereotypical image of a law firm and establish a culture sensitive towards individual aspirations, happiness and high emotional quotient without compromising on the quality of our services. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” is a mantra we take to heart.