International firm Ashurst’s local best friend Indian Law Partners (ILP) has hired sports and media lawyer Kiran Desai in Mumbai to head up its intellectual property, media, entertainment and sports law practice.
Desai had founded his own firm, KAD Legal, in 2007 after working for a year at the Chambers of Shyam Divan and having been a DSK Legal associate between 2003 and 2005.
He is a 2004 GLC Mumbai graduate and holds an LLM from Georgetown University Washington.
ILP’s head office is in Delhi, while in Mumbai Desai is the second partner alongside partner Kanika Premnarayen.
Delhi-based ILP managing partner Gopika Pant commented: “We are really happy to welcome Kiran to ILP and join us as a colleague. While we have added intellectual property, media, entertainment & sports law verticals to ILP, we continue to maintain our boutique status, maintaining focus on high quality work, client satisfaction and striking the difficult work-life balance required for sustained growth and professional development of our lawyers.
“We are looking to develop a sound litigation practice, Kiran brings experience in this too, so now we can add a few more practice areas to train our lawyers during their first couple of years of working, very similar to training contracts offered by international law firms.”
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It's as though you were to say: Britain's ally, the US, has elected Donald Trump as its president.
Out of interest, which part of the headline is making people think that Ashurst has done anything in this, other than be a firm's 'bestie'? (which may imply they were probably informed of the hire beforehand, but probably not much else)
But in the spirit of trolling, would love your opinion on some of these of our previous very similar headlines? Also confusing? Do any of those look like it is the first-named entity that's doing the action?
ALMT breakaway Clasis captures second partner from UK best friend Clyde & Co
Ashurst & India best friend ILP advise Toshiba’s $20m clean water entry opposite DSK
KPMG friend Advaita poaches ex-LKS Madhav Rao from consultant best-friend BMR Legal
(Trolls: try this: INDIA TO IMPORT LEGGY CHICKS FROM US....the story would be about India considering allowing import of poultry, esp the leg pieces, which are prized here, but discarded in the US for the fillet portion. I'm sure trolls frequenting LI would be salivating at that headline...maybe, just maybe, the odds against their chances of scoring would reduce from a billion to 999 million!!
BTW this headline had appeared in the TOI many years ago, and poultry imports from US again is in the news.So are your chances of getting off, you jerks.
Look again.."ASHURST (foreign firm), HIRES, LAWYER) contains all the keywords which interest the average joe reader. The rest (...) are non-entities, (...) or just too boring to attract eyeballs.
I mean, seriously?
I see that whenever Kiann gets called out for shady tactocs he resorts by calling others "Troll'
Tsk tsk tsk. :) Bad boy Kian
He is a 2004 GLC Mumbai graduate and holds an LLM from Georgetown University Washington."
Please correct. Per your report, Mr. Desai graduated in 2004, so,how can he be an associate with DSK Legal between 2003-05?
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