Law & Legal

One jurisdiction, practised properly, for clients in a great many others.

We practise Indian law. That is the whole of our licence and the whole of our expertise, and it is precisely why international clients and international counsel instruct us. A firm that claims to practise everywhere practises nothing in particular, and the general counsel who has been through that once does not repeat it.

What we have built instead is a set of corridors. Each is led by a partner who owns it, who knows the regulators, the deal patterns and the counsel worth calling in that region, and who is awake while the client is. The corridors run to Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland, ASEAN and Singapore, the Middle East, the Americas and Africa, and they carry work in both directions.

Six desks, one licence

A desk is a team in India dedicated to a corridor, not a foreign office. All six may run at launch.

Layer: Desks — live today

Europe Desk

Europe Desk European companies typically arrive in India with a structure designed in Frankfurt, Paris or Amsterdam and a set of assumptions that do not survive contact with Indian sectoral conditions.

United Kingdom and Ireland Desk

More India-facing legal work originates in London than in any other city outside India, and a great deal of it sits with firms that have no India capability.

ASEAN and Singapore Desk

A very large share of capital entering India is structured through Singapore, and a very large share of India-related arbitration is seated there.

Middle East Desk

The Gulf to India corridor carries more capital, more construction and more family-owned business than almost any other.

Americas Desk

United States counsel usually need three things on an Indian question: a clear answer, a realistic timetable and somebody reachable at nine in the evening Eastern time.

Africa Desk

India and Africa trade more with each other every year and are advised on it by fewer specialist firms than almost any comparable corridor.

A regulated pathway, not an aspiration

The Bar Council of India amended the Rules for Registration and Regulation of Foreign Lawyers and Foreign Law Firms in India, 2022 in May 2025. The framework operates on reciprocity, and Indian advocates and Indian law firms are correspondingly eligible to register as foreign lawyers or foreign law firms abroad while retaining the right to practise Indian law at home. Our international build follows that pathway, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, and we publish where we have reached.

Our relationships

Independent firms in other jurisdictions that instruct us on India and whom we instruct on theirs. Each firm is engaged separately by the client and bills for its own work. We are not a network, we do not describe ourselves as one, and we do not share fees. Where we have not yet established a relationship in a jurisdiction, we say so and find one for the matter rather than pretending otherwise.

Where we are going

We publish our expansion plan rather than implying it. It is set out in full, with the conditions attached to each stage.

Sectors

International Overview

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