MV Kini & Co
It is well known that nearly every Supreme Court case is in want of an advocate-on-record (AOR), and several lawyers and law firms have made this a core part of their Supreme Court practice. After analysing more than 120,000 of the Supreme Court’s daily orders from 2018, we have now compiled a list of the busiest advocate-on-record (AOR) firms in the apex court, according to the number of orders mentioning their names.
For B4U Television’s director and head legal Natasha Fernandes, sustaining a small TV and movie distribution company’s business in the face of a regulatory threat to its main revenue model – advertisements – is the biggest challenge.
Asian Legal Business (ALB) magazine last month released a listing of Asia’s biggest law firms, including a round-up of the 25 largest Indian firms by total headcounts.
The markets are picking up it looks like – here’s the round-up of what firms have been getting up to.
Litigation, corporate, M&A, capital markets and private equity deals in brief from a cross-section of India’s top law firms.
MV Kini partner Shrikant Kamath, who joined in 2012 to start its tax practice, left last week but is replaced by principal associate Prateush Sharma.
Stop striking, bench tells bar: Karnataka HC asks state bar associations to implement the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) 29 September 2002 resolution which limits an advocate’s absence from court proceedings to one day. Court gives three months to the associations to establish a “grievance redressal committee”, and asks them to frame advocates’ “practice conditions” for the high court [The Hindu]
No remake till make up: The Supreme Court stayed the release of Zanjeer remake until arbitration proceedings over rights finished [TOI]
Anand & Anand promos: The intellectual property (IP) firm promoted managing associates Dhruv Anand, Madhu Rewari, Revanta Mathur, Sandhya Singh, Shrawan Chopra and Swati Sharma to partnership effective 1 April 2013. The firm also made 13 fresh hires [Legal Era]
MV Kini promos: MV Kini & Co promoted principal associate Tavinder Sidhu to partnership in its Delhi office effective 1 April 2013. Sidhu is an advocate on record [Bar & Bench]
Engineering rank: Father writs Madras HC to force Eng colleges in Tamil Nadu to be ranked properly, rather than as advertised [The New Indian Express]
Senior associate and partner promotions at 5 firms, including three new partners HSA Advocates, one partner promotion at Bhasin & Co, two new Vaish senior associates, one MV Kini partner and two FoxMandal laterals and 10 senior-level associates.
Legally India’s round-up of the latest 15 cases and deals and their legal advisers, including Luthra’s defence of Yahoo! India in two high-profile cases, and a massive boom in debt capital markets – but only one equity cap markets deal for AZB.
In today’s edition of Mint: Legally India reveals the conundrum of how legal liability insurance has managed to catch on among India’s bigger law firms, despite no one being able to remember any lawyer ever getting sued for negligent advice.
MV Kini & Co has started a tax practice with the hire of start-up lawyer Shrikant Kamath as partner in Mumbai, while former in-house lawyer Ram Verma has joined the Hyderabad office.
MV Kini & Co took advantage of the government go-ahead to four major PSUs to issue tax-free bonds, advising National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on its Rs 10,000 crore ($1.93bn) issue of 28 December 2011.
MV Kini managing partner Ravi Kini has started up a legal process outsourcing (LPO) firm in Mumbai in a joint venture with seasoned LPO NewGalexy to focus exclusively on foreign infrastructure projects work, while the law firm will transfer a number of its lawyers to staff the new entity.