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14 September 2012
Law firms

Gurgaon intellectual property (IP) law firm Lall, Lahiri & Salhotra’s (LLS) senior partner Amar Raj Lall passed away on 6 September, close to the age of 90.

Spicy IP’s Prashant Reddy pays a tribute to the man who played a key role in the evolution of the doctrine of trans-border brand reputation for trademark owners in Indian IP law in the landmark Whirlpool judgement of the SC, scoured the countryside to catch Coca-Cola trademark infringers and bring an action against them, and maintained a ‘Blanco White’ law library open for free public access.

In the world of workaholism and gargantuan egos, it is the rare event to find a senior partner who thinks it necessary to actually strike a conversation with an intern but it is the little things like this which add up to wonderful person that was Mr. Lall.

A few years ago Mr. Sagar had stated “Mr. Amar Raj Lall (now a Senior Partner at the IP firm Lall Lahiri & Salhotra) was a great influence. I had the privilege of working very closely with Mr. Lall for over a decade. He was a person who taught me to get in to detail and depth of a matter. He would say, “Assume nothing, see it for yourself”. [Spicy IP]

13 September 2012
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)

Joginder Yadav SVP Former Nokia Siemens Networks legal head Joginder Yadav joined legal process outsourcing company (LPO) UnitedLex as senior vice-president in its contract solutions business on Monday. Yadav shifted gears into the LPO industry after more than sixteen years of an in-house legal career, including a brief law firm stint at Kochhar & Co.

12 September 2012
Law firms

Economic Times looks at law firm equities and reports: Khaitan & Co, the firm of 58 partners, 300 lawyers and 101 years, retains 15 to 25 per cent of equity with the family, while at Amarchand Mangaldas (20 equity partners, 50 salaried partners, 555 lawyers, 95 years old) around 75 per cent equity is with the Shroff family, with mother Bharti Shroff holding lifetime equity, and the veto vote resting with the family.

Jyoti Sagar at JSA and Rajiv Luthra at Luthra & Luthra are the only Sagar and Luthra, respectively, at their firms. Sagar with Mumbai senior partner Berjis Desai holds under 13 per cent of equity in the 20-strong equity partnership of the 21-year-old firm. And while family is barred from joining JSA, strict observance of the rule resulting in retainers quitting if wanting to marry each other, at Luthra the bar to family is only in terms of automatic entry.

Speculation for AZB apparently goes that founding partner Zia Mody, amongst the 17 equity partners at the firm, holds 90 per cent of the firm’s equity, but she denies the rumours [ET]

12 September 2012
Deals in brief

imageWhen miners, car importers, cricket team owning media houses and tobacco producers marched to the referees, the advisors won. Here’s presenting firsts in CCI orders, the post-Bhatia International field, errant Deccan Chargers’ owners and more…

06 September 2012
Law firms

tempus-anindita-phukanExclusive: Khaitan & Co Bangalore partner Anindita Phukan has set up a new office for Hyderabad-headquartered, four-year-old firm Tempus Law Associates, which opened a Pune office earlier this year.

04 September 2012
Law firms

Suri: Infusing talented people Exclusive: Zia Mody and Goodwin Procter alumnus Anuradha Lall has joined PSA yesterday after seven years of independent practice, becoming its first partner other than founding partner Priti Suri.

03 September 2012
Deals in brief

imageJSA, HSA, Khaitan, Dua and Amarchand eat, pray, love Sushi, drugs, classifieds and the markets...

31 August 2012
Corporate M&A

Pills n pills Khaitan & Co and Baker & McKenzie again advised leading global injectable generic drugs maker Hospira and its Indian subsidiary Hospira Healthcare India (HHI) in its Rs 1100 crore ($200m) acquisition of Chennai-based global pharma major Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals’ penicillin and penem making facility and research & development business. Orchid was advised by Amarchand Mangaldas and Latham & Watkins.

29 August 2012
Law firms

Singh Advocates / Associates Singh & Associates (S&A) has responded to Delhi-based advocate Pratibha Singh’s Delhi high court claim of passing off her firm’s name Singh & Singh Advocates, asserting that she misrepresented facts, had no exclusive rights to the name “Singh”, and that her firm stood to gain from S&A’s reputation, and not the other way around, in the event of firm name confusion.

S&A also filed an application for rejection of her plaint, for lack of cause of action.

28 August 2012
Law firms

Luthra-rajiv-luthra-w Luthra & Luthra has promoted six associates to its partnership, of whom three are in its Delhi litigation practice.

27 August 2012
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)

LPO: India-generated turnover backs fast-growing US company The turnover of legal process outsourcing (LPO) company UnitedLex was $42.8m in 2011, up from $28.2m (Rs 238 crore) the previous year, reported US-based Inc Magazine in its listing of the 500 fastest-growing privately held US companies.

24 August 2012
Law firms

Delhi-based IP law sole proprietorship Singh & Singh takes law firm Singh & Associates (S&A) to Delhi high court in a suit for trademark infringement. Advocate Pratibha Singh alleges that S&A is trying to mooch off her firm Singh & Singh’s “immense popularity and goodwill" through its deceptively similar name.

She alleges coming across various instances where S&A founding partner Manoj K Singh indulged in misrepresentation and made unsolicited approaches to her firm’s foreign associates and clients, starting in October 2010 when two S&A lawyers wrote an analysis of a patent infringement case argued by her. The article was published in an international magazine.

She bases her claim on the fact that her firm’s name was a registered trademark in 1997, whereas S&A became a registered trademark only in 2002, but Manoj Singh alleges that Pratibha Singh’s trademark application was only made in 2005.

Singh & Associates did not respond to Legally India's request for comment [Bar&Bench]

23 August 2012
Private equity / VC

Big-ticket $18m showExclusive: Desai & Diwanji advised India’s largest entertainment ticketing website BookMyShow in the Rs 100 crore ($18m) capital and equity infusion to be made in it by global internet-business venture capitalist (VC) Accel Partners, advised by IndusLaw.

23 August 2012
Private equity / VC

Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai and Delhi advised Bain Capital with US firm Ropes & Gray in the $1bn purchase of 30 per cent of shares in global outsourcer Genpact, which was advised by Cravath Swaine & Moore. Two selling private equity funds were assisted by Nishith Desai Associates and Paul Weiss.

22 August 2012
Law firms

English law firm regulator SRA allows London-based insurance law firm Parabis to convert into an Alternate Business Structure (ABS) after injection of equity from private equity firm Duke Street. Parabis is set to convert from a professional services firm to a business process outsourcer, and will acquire up to five service-providers to the claims management industry, including law firms, by the end of 2012. The acquired firms will value between £10m and £30m [The Lawyer]