We publish our expansion plan, because clients ask and because a plan stated is easier to hold us to than a plan implied.
Most firms announce an office after it opens. We would rather set out the sequence, the conditions and the reasoning, so that a client deciding whether to build a long relationship with us can see where the platform is going and judge whether it is going there for good reasons.
The sequence is deliberate. Every stage funds the next, no stage opens before it has revenue behind it, and no jurisdiction is entered without the licence that jurisdiction requires. We would rather arrive late and correctly.
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Stage one, now. Corridor desks from India
Six regional desks in operation, each led by a partner, each handling inbound and outbound work in its corridor. All execution takes place in India, which is where the licence, the expertise and the cost advantage all sit. This stage requires no foreign registration and it is where the great majority of cross-border Indian work is properly done.
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Stage two. Relationship firms in each corridor
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Stage three. Representative presence, ASEAN first
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Stage four. Licensed practice
A Foreign Law Practice licence from the Singapore Legal Services Regulatory Authority, permitting the practice of Indian law in and from Singapore, with registered foreign lawyers and the professional indemnity cover the regime requires. Thereafter the Gulf, then the United Kingdom and the European corridors, then a Foreign Legal Consultant registration in the United States beginning with New York, each on its own regulator’s terms and each only once the corresponding desk has carried its own cost for four consecutive quarters. Windows to be confirmed.
Africa
The regulatory basis
The Bar Council of India’s amended rules on foreign lawyers and foreign law firms, notified in May 2025, operate on reciprocity and confirm that Indian advocates and Indian law firms may register as foreign lawyers or foreign law firms abroad while retaining the right to practise Indian law in India. That dual registration mechanism is what makes this sequence a regulated pathway rather than an ambition, and it is the reason the plan is published with dates rather than with adjectives.