Exclusive: Fox Mandal Delhi’s London founding partner Ajit Mishra has resigned from the firm, as the firm has left its old office and moved into a new one in the UK’s financial capital.
Mishra, who headed up Fox’s London office when it was started in 2008 and is a dual-qualified Indian and English lawyer, left the firm on 26 September. Fox Mandal Delhi managing partner Som Mandal confirmed the departure.
According to a source close to Mishra, he may set up a new law firm with offices in London and India.
Mishra declined to comment.
He had started his career in 2001 at New Delhi Law Offices after graduating from Campus Law Centre (CLC) Delhi, then took an LLM at Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London in 2005, and joined Singhania & Co as a partner in London in 2006 before joining Fox in 2008.
Mandal said in an email: “The firm in London is headed by Tony Khindria, who as you may remember merged his firm LexIndia’s practice in London, Paris and India with us last year. After joining of Tony, we had two partners based in London and now we have one.”
Khindria added that he would continue to divide his time between London and Paris, continuing the arrangement under his and Fox’s original tie-up. He commented: “We have an understanding of Indian and European cultures and our aim is to provide easy access to Indian legal services in Europe in real time.”
It is understood that apart from Khindria no other lawyers are currently based in London for the firm.
The firm has now also moved out of its King Street office in the city’s financial district to Temple Chambers in Temple Avenue, near Fleet Street, confirmed Mandal.
Moving back to the firm’s original London office in Windsor House was not possible because that office had been demolished and reconstructed in July of this year.
In July, Delhi partner Sumes Dewan had joined Desai & Diwanji, having left Fox’s Delhi office with only four non-family partners.
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"The firm relocated, and did not tell me where."
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FM was an old firm (AMSS time) and look where AMSS is and where FM is now. Too family oriented? Wrong moves? Complacency?
Another firm that brings to my mind is Dua Associates. Where is it now?
What happended to all these firms - Dua, Fox, Mulla, Crawford, Kanga, Little? They were amongst the top a decade and a half back. Seems like only Wadia, AMSS and Khaitan have been able to survive, innovate and grow amongst the traditional/old firms.
Newer firms like Luthra, AZB, Trilegal have taken over their space. I wonder what was the USP amongst the newer firm (or for that matter, AMSS/Khaitan amongst older firms) to come to the forefront.
Trilegal is a Tier II/III firm
Spoke with a few of the remaining persons still at the firm. Its almost like Fox has become a shell of an office, with few occupants in the cubicles and offices and hardly any work or clients to provide services to… Moreover no sign of any changes to turn things around, I remember the time when this was an office of competent lawyers and provided sound trust worthy legal advice. This is indeed very sad.
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