Exclusive: Jaipur-based corporate law firm Chir Amrit Law Chambers has relocated to a bigger office to gear-up for market opportunities in Rajasthan’s fast paced industrial growth and national law firms’ that have shown interest in opening offices in the region.

Chir Amrit has acquired a 6,000 square feet of office space on the fifth floor of the Unique Destination building situated at Tonk Road in Rajasthan’s capital of Jaipur.

Managing partner Sanjay Jhanwar (pictured) said: “There have hardly been any corporate law firms in Rajasthan up till now and only individual practices have flourished for so many years. But a lot has changed, law firms and corporate practice started receiving importance ever since the growth of the real estate sector which started four to five years back.”

He said that a paradigm shift was taking place in the approach people took to advice when expanding or starting businesses in Rajasthan. Clients who might earlier only have been interested in annual retainership contracts with corporate law practitioners, he said, had now started taking full-time legal consultancy services for their projects.

Conceding that Paras Kuhad & Associates was the number one firm of the state, Jhanwar added: “I’m hearing the news of some of the national law firms coming in [to establish offices in Jaipur] by 2011/2012.”

The firm was founded in 2005, with Chir and Amrit being the names of Jhanwar’s family members. Jhanwar is the sole equity partner of the firm. Chir Amrit Law Chambers also includes salaried partner Prakul Khurana and 13 other advocates, of whom three are senior associates. One chartered accountant and two company secretaries also work at the firm.

Jhanwar explained that the biggest factor in recent years was the discovery of Oil & Natural Gas reserves in the western parts of Rajasthan, following which many companies have set up their offices in that region. The growth in real estate, hospitality and education sectors has also been huge in the state, he added.

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