RSG Grow India Awards and RSG India Rankings 2019
This years awards and nominees:
RSG Grow India Award 2019 for Developing Legal Minds
Many Indian firms have made growing their people a key plank of their growth strategies. They are investing in sophisticated talent programmes and ensuring younger lawyers are empowered to take on the partnership mantle. The following list includes some of the firms who are making headway and who could serve as role models for the rest of the profession.
Winner
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Nominated
Anand & Anand
Khaitan & Co
Nishith Desai Associates
Trilegal
RSG Grow India Award for Enabling Corporate India
Law firms have a critical role to play in facilitating the increasingly large and complex deals that are changing corporate India, both facilitating inbound and outbound transactions and helping Indian corporates access new capital, markets and growth partners. The shortlist includes some of the firms who have made critical contributions to supporting the growth of India Inc.
Winner
Khaitan & Co and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Nominated
AZB & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Talwar Thakore & Associates
RSG Grow India Award for Defending Corporate India
Equally as important as doing the deals is India’s litigation bar who work assiduously to protect the interests of major Indian corporations and to ensure their health and longevity. From working on India’s new insolvency laws to arguing major IP cases to protecting whole industry sectors, the role of India’s litigators continues to grow in importance.
Winner
J. Sagar Associates
Nominated
Anand & Anand
Economic Laws Practice
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
RSG Grow India Award for Best Challenger Law Firm
India’s legal market continues to be a competitive and challenging one, both for firms looking to retain top talent and balance profitability, growth and quality. It is a fine juggling act and hard to maintain independence and focus. The shortlist of firms includes those who have proved to be resilient, dynamic and ones that are building long-term credibility.
Winner
IndusLaw
Nominated
DSK Legal
Economic Laws Practice
Link Legal India Law Services
Samvad Partners
Veritas Legal
RSG Grow India Award for Increased Foreign Law Firm Profile 2019
India is an on-off love affair for many foreign law firms, where maintaining a consistent strategy is challenging. Liberalisation continues to be a topic of speculation, but for many the uncertainty about whether the market opens or not is a deterrent. However, India is an important economy and not one that can be ignored by firms with serious international practices. The following shortlist highlights some of the firms who have been able to build their profiles and show adaptability to the realities of doing business in India.
Winner
Kirkland & Ellis
Nominated
Bird & Bird
DLA Piper
Gunderson Dettmer
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
RSG Grow India Award for In-House Counsel
The role of the in-house counsel has dramatically changed over the past ten years. It has grown in status and importance in the Indian business community, with several seasoned practitioners making the leap to practice in the in-house environment. Many are significant contributors to the health and wealth of corporate India. For the first time, RSG shines a spotlight on some of the most dynamic teams and individuals to surface in our research.
Winner
Himanshu Dodeja, Blackstone
Shortlisted
Nitin Banerjee, Ola
Vidyut Gulati, Bharti Airtel
Gauri Rao, Tata Sons Private Limited
Bijoya Roy, Flipkart
RSG Grow India Award for Law Firm of the Decade
The profession has altered beyond recognition in the past ten years. There have been mergers, splits and a host of new firms established. The market has been volatile and un-certain but there are some firms who have been navigating these shoals of change with focused determination and a clear strategy. To select the winner, we reviewed the top 15 firms in the RSG Top 40 in 2017.
Winner
Trilegal
Shortlisted
Anand and Anand
AZB & Partners
Bharucha & Partners
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Economic Laws Practice
J. Sagar Associates
Khaitan & Co
Kochhar & Co
L&L Partners (Formerly Luthra & Luthra Law Offices)
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Nishith Desai Associates
S&R Associates
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Talwar Thakore & Associates
RSG India Award for the Emerging Leader of the Year 2019
The inaugural list of India’s emerging legal leaders reveals a dynamic and robust profession, well able to partner India’s business and power its economy into the 21st Century. The research, supported by Allen & Overy, looked at a long list of over 100 practitioners to arrive at a shortlist of 20 individuals drawn from all over India. It is more than a list of top technical lawyers but shows people with vision, breadth of experience and the desire to carry the profession forward.
Winner
Nikhil Narayanan, Khaitan & Co
Shortlisted
Janak Bathiya, Bathiya Legal
Ashwin Bishnoi, Khaitan & Co
Mathew Chacko, Spice Route Legal
Kota Chandan, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Pratibha Jain, Nishith Desai Associates
Pritha Jha, Pioneer Legal
Shagoofa Rashid Khan, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Tarun Khurana, Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys
Shinoj Koshy, L&L Partners (formerly Luthra & Luthra Law Offices)
Kartick Maheshwari, Khaitan & Co
Neeraj Menon, Trilegal
Jitendra Motwani, Economic Laws Practice
Mrinal Ojha, Phoenix Legal
Harsh Pais, Trilegal
Karan Singh Chandhiok, Chandhiok & Mahajan, Advocates and Solicitors
Aarthi Sivanandh, J. Sagar Associates
Veena Sivaramakrishnan, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
Mithun V. Thanks, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Trilegal