Mumbai-based Trilegal co-founder Karan Singh will relocate to Bangalore within the next four months.
“I am very excited about moving to Bangalore,” he commented when we contacted him earlier today.
He said that he would move around the middle of 2019 but that nothing substantial would change in his practice, and he would continue servicing existing work and clients.
The 1995 NLSIU Bangalore graduate is a member of the firm’s managing committee.
He also specialises in corporate, domestic and cross-border M&A and finance, project finance and regulatory work.
Trilegal’s Bangalore office currently houses two other Trilegal co-founders: Rahul Matthan (a 1994 product of NLSIU) and Prem Ayyappa.
Mumbai will retain one other co-founder: Sridhar Gorthi.
By reading the comments you agree that they are the (often anonymous) personal views and opinions of readers, which may be biased and unreliable, and for which Legally India therefore has no liability. If you believe a comment is inappropriate, please click 'Report to LI' below the comment and we will review it as soon as practicable.
threads most popular
thread most upvoted
comment newest
first oldest
first
1. This kind of 'trash' has been 'news' on LI many times in the past and for good reason. Arguably, Sandip Bhagat's move from Delhi to Mumbai in 2010, and Rajat Sethi's move in 2014, made S&R the firm it is today.
www.legallyindia.com/law-firms/sandip-bhagat-will-move-to-mumbai-to-set-up-new-sar-office-20100702-1053
www.legallyindia.com/the-bench-and-the-bar/s-r-rajat-sethi-follows-bhagat-moves-from-delhi-to-mumbai-in-corp-drive-20141107-5279
While much more political at Amarchand in the old days, moves between offices were fairly significant within the legal ecosystem back then, such as VP Singh's and others: www.legallyindia.com/law-firms/vp-singh-moves-from-amarchand-delhi-to-mumbai-20130410-3583
You could also argue, that Manan Lahoty's sort-of move to Mumbai around 2009, made Luthra's cap markets practice as successful as it is today.
And there are many more examples, but I don't want to bore you.
2. As far as I'm aware, Karan Singh has basically spent his entire Trilegal career in Mumbai, playing a huge hand in building up that office to what it is today. The move may be for personal or lifestyle reasons, but law firms are made of people, and if a founder or senior partner moves, it will change the DNA and culture of an office, at least a little bit.
3. For the trade press, such as LI, or The Lawyer, or Law.com, etc, it is 'news' in foreign legal markets too.
4. I believe, for those that didn't know yet in the Bangalore market, this would be 'news' too. Having one more senior yet young-ish corporate lawyer in Bangalore could mix things up a fair bit there. Bangalore's become quite a settled market, carved up between the big firms, I feel. So it's quite possible, there's also a strategic dimension to the move, to boost the corporate presence there amongst the Flipkarts of the city.
5. It has to be news, because otherwise it'd make me wonder, why did you click on the story and comment on it?
6. It's news, because it's information that wasn't public before and that you (presumably) didn't know about. It may not be news you personally care about, but that doesn't stop it from being news for someone else.
Hope that clarifies. Yours, with massala,
Kian
Really appreciate your effort to respond to such "trash." Great reply.
CAM- Reeba, Vandana
SAM - Pallavi
AZB- Zia
Trilegal- no one since inception
P.S. Trilegal is going to suffer some big blows soon. Keep watching this space. Vandana and Zia are sending their regards. Hildul is slowly moving to make some moves.
@Also, Trilegal is no longer in a stage where a move or two would make them fall apart.
threads most popular
thread most upvoted
comment newest
first oldest
first