Top 10 Law Firms in India
India’s legal landscape is a tapestry woven with the expertise, dedication, and sheer brilliance of its law firms. With a history that spans generations, these institutions have played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s legal framework and advocating for justice. In this blog post, we embark on a journey to explore the crème de la crème of India‘s legal world as we unveil the “Top 10 Law Firms in India.”
From towering skyscrapers in bustling metropolises to quiet chambers where groundbreaking legal strategies are forged, these law firms represent not just pillars of the legal community but also the custodians of justice. In this article, we delve into their stories, accolades, and the distinctive qualities that set them apart on the legal stage.
10. Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Website: http://www.lakshmisri.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lakshmikumaran-and-sridharan/
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is a full-service law firm based in India. The firm has offices in 14 cities.
Practice Areas
The firm has 14 offices and has over 400 professionals specializing in areas such as corporate & commercial laws, dispute resolution, taxation, and intellectual property. Over the last three decades, they have worked with a variety of clients – start-ups, small & medium enterprises, large Indian corporates, and multinational companies. Their professionals have experience of working in both traditional sectors such as commodities, automobile, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and modern sectors such as e-commerce, big data, renewables. They combine our knowledge of the law with industry experience to design legal solutions that their clients can implement.
Contact Information
New Delhi
5 Link Road, Jangpura Extension opp. Jangpura Metro Station New Delhi -110 014, India
Tel: +91 (11) 4129 9800
Mumbai
2nd floor, B&C Wing, Cnergy IT Park, Appa Saheb Marathe Marg, (Near Century Bazar) Prabhadevi, Mumbai – 400025
Tel: +91 (22) 24392500/ (22) 24914384/ 86/87
Fax: +91 (22) 24914388
Email: [email protected]
9. Luthra and Luthra
Website: http://www.luthra.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luthraandluthra/
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices was an established Corporate Law Firm of the early 90s, which coincided with India’s economic liberalization, and soon after its inception, it emerged as a full-service law Firm, with the acquisition of Chandhoke, Sharma & Sondhi.
Practice Areas
This law firm was found by Rajiv K. Luthra in 1991. It has been considered as a top-level firm in India due to its successful legal exercises.
The main categories in which this firm deals with are corporate and M/A, Private Equity, Capital Market, Commercial, Banking and Finance, competition and antitrust, fund formation, insurance, tax dispute resolution, etc.
They have offices located in major cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Bangalore. With more than four hundred employees and sixty-one partners all across the globe, they look out for the recruitment of talented personnel and offer them handsome salary packages.
Contact Information
New Delhi
1st and 9th floor, Ashoka Estate, 24
Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi-110 001
Contact: [email protected]
T: +91 11 4121 5100
F: +91 11 2372 3909
Mumbai
20th Floor, Tower 2, Unit A2, One International Centre (formerly Indiabulls Finance Centre), Elphinstone Road, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel,
Mumbai – 400 013
Contact: [email protected]
T: +91 22 4354 7000, +91 22 6630 3600
F: +91 22 6630 3700
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8. Phoenix Legal
Website: http://www.phoenixlegal.in/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phoenixlegal/
Phoenix Legal is a leading full service/multi-disciplinary Indian law firm offering transactional, regulatory, advisory, dispute resolution, and tax services. With its principal offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, the firm advises a diverse clientele including domestic and international companies, banks and financial institutions, funds, promoter groups, and public sector undertakings.
Practice Areas
This law associates’ firm was found in 2008. The main areas of expertise include banking and finance, corporate commercial, infrastructure, dispute resolution, foreign investment, and exchange control, energy, oil, gas, and mining.
Relatively being a small firm, it has fifty lawyers in its offices at Mumbai and Delhi. They have eight partners and to provide a unique solution to several cases.
Though being small, the responsiveness and support offered by the staffs working in the firm, to a client are quite reliable. Since its opening, the firm has succeeded in capturing the attention with its work.
Contact Information
Delhi Office
Phoenix House,
254, Okhla Industrial Estate
Phase III, New Delhi – 110 020
+91 11 4983 0000
+91 11 4983 0099
[email protected]
Mumbai Office
Vaswani Mansion, Office No. 17 & 18 3rd
Floor, 120 Dinshaw Vachha Road
Churchgate, Mumbai – 400 020
+91 22 4340 8500
+91 22 4340 8501
[email protected]
7. Anand & Anand
Website: http://www.anandandanand.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anand-and-anand/
Anand and Anand is a full-service Intellectual Property law firm which advises the world’s leading companies and institutions.
Practice Areas
Born of a pioneering parent firm that had branches spanning the cities of Lahore, Calcutta, Delhi, and Amritsar in 1923, Anand and Anand were conceived to meet the challenges of an imminent new order in India. The transition from a closed economy to a liberalized one came about in the early 1990s. With a futuristic vision the firm tapped into the change on the horizon in a country awakening to a heightened intellectual property environment and took the lead in making available from a single window multi-faceted legal service of a high quality.
They regularly deal with protection of IP and contentious matters before different forums including the Courts at all levels, the Patent Offices, the Trademark Offices, the Copyright Office, the Design Office, WIPO, and the National Internet Exchange of India.
Contact Information
MUMBAI
57 – 58, Rajgir Chambers, SBS Road Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400023, India
+91-22-22631488-89
NOIDA
First Channel Building Plot No. 17A, Sector 16A, Film City, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India
+91-120-4059300
CHENNAI
Flat No. GA & GB, AR Villa, New No. 31, 3rd Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Chennai Tamil Nadu 600020, India +91-44-43504228
6. Azb & Partners
Website: http://www.azbpartners.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/azb-partners/
AZB & Partners was officially founded in 2004. In recalling the years prior to its formation, what emerges is a passion for excellence married to an unshakeable trust in each other and the partnership. What drove its founders then, still holds true today.
Practice Areas
AZB & Partners is among the top law firms in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bangalore, and Pune. They are specialists in areas of general corporate issues, Banking and finance practices, dispute resolution, real estate, competition law, capital markets, funds, and competition law.
Contact Information
Mumbai
AZB House
Peninsula Corporate Park
Ganpatrao Kadam Marg
Lower Parel
Mumbai 400013
India
T: + 91 22 4072 9999
F: +91 22 6639 6888
T: + 91 22 4901 0600
F: +91 22 4901 0699
Delhi
[email protected]
AZB House
Plot No A-7 and A-8
Sector 4
Noida 201 301
National Capital Region
India
T: +91 120 417 9999
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5. DSK Legal
Website: https://dsklegal.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dsk-legal/
DSK Legal was set up in 2001 and has since, established an excellent reputation for its integrity and value-based proactive, pragmatic, and innovative legal advice and its ability to help clients effectively traverse the complicated legal and regulatory regime in India.
Practice Areas
With offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad. DSK Legal has grown rapidly on the strength of its expertise to a multi-disciplinary team with over 250 lawyers, including 56 partners. They are modern and inclusive in their outlook and have a solution-oriented approach. They strongly promote diversity of thought, because they believe it helps them build strong teams with varied approaches and ideas to offer solutions that clients find value in.
At DSK Legal, they believe in establishing strong and enduring relationships with their clients by ensuring that they are always available to attend to our clients’ needs. It is always their endeavour to understand their client’s commercial goals. They are transparent in their work and commit themselves to time-bound and cost-effective advice that protects their client’s interests every time.
The reputation that they have so strenuously built for themselves has led them to be appointed by market leading international and domestic businesses on several path breaking deals. Their advice has been sought repeatedly by Governments, and this valuable interaction has in turn helped them establish a significant knowledge base within their firm – a base that they tap into for the benefit of their clients.
Contact Information
New Delhi
Level 5 – Max House,
Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase III
New Delhi – 110020, India
: +91-11-4661-6666
: [email protected]
Mumbai
1701, One World Centre
Floor 17, Tower 2B
841, Senapati Bapat Marg
Mumbai – 400013, India
: +91-22-6658-8000: [email protected]
4. Sagar Associates
Website: http://www.jsalaw.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jsa/
JSA is a leading national law firm in India with over 450 professionals operating out of 7 offices located in: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi.
Practice Areas
The firm’s practice is organised along service lines and sector specialisation that provides legal services to top Indian corporates, Fortune 500 companies, multinational banks and financial institutions, governmental and statutory authorities, and multilateral and bilateral institutions.
The firm excels in providing legal advice and services to international and domestic clients. They do provide legal solutions in chosen areas of practice with a solid emphasis on ethics.
Contact Information
New Delhi
B 303, 3rd Floor, Ansal Plaza, Hudco Place, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi – 110049, India
+91 11 4311 0600
+91 11 4311 0617
[email protected]
Mumbai
Vakils House, 18 Sprott Road, Ballard Estate, Mumbai – 400001, India
+91 22 4341 8600
+91 22 4341 8617
[email protected]
3. Khaitan & Co.
Website: http://www.khaitanco.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/khaitan-&-co-/
The leading full-service law firm in India with over 850+ professionals with diverse skills and experience of intricate, high-profile and path breaking engagements. Team of highly motivated partners, lawyers and professionals delivering exceptional client service and expert legal advice across a wide gamut of sectors and industries. The Firm’s endeavour has been to be proactive and exceed client expectations.
Practice Areas
Khaitan & Co. is one of the top law firms in Mumbai which has 115 partners. The company was found by Late Debi Prasad Khaitan in the year 1911.
The practice areas of the company include Banking & Finance, Capital markets, Competition law, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Energy, Hospitality, Infrastructure and Resources, Environment, Intellectual property, Funds, labour and employment along with other fields such as taxation, technology, media & telecom.
Contact Information
New Delhi
Ashoka Estate
11th Floor, 1105 & 1106,
24 Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi 110 001, India
T: +91 11 4151 5454
F: +91 11 4151 5318
E: [email protected]
Mumbai
One Forbes
3rd & 4th Floors, No. 1
Dr. V B Gandhi Marg,
Fort, Mumbai 400001, India
T: +91 22 6636 5000
F: +91 22 6636 5050 E: [email protected]
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2. Trilegal India
Website: http://www.trilegal.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trilegal/
Trilegal is a full-service law firm with offices in Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram and Mumbai. We have been consistently recognised as the best Indian law firm for the quality of our services and client satisfaction. The firm’s all-equity lockstep model, based on transparency, democracy, and meritocracy, is unique in India. We are proud that the firm has been recognised for its commitment to diversity, equality, and sustainability.
Practice Areas
This law firm has more than three hundred lawyer employees across four offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Gurgaon.
The firm is very well known for its services in problems related to real estate, infrastructure, energy, technology, and information technology-enabled services.
The firm exercises legal actions to be taken while entering into a joint venture business in India. They offer career opportunities to talented lawyers in one of the many practice areas available.
They also offer a suitable environment for analytical thinking and research on a particular matter.
Contact Information
Bengaluru Address
Prestige Poseidon, 139, Residency Road, Bengaluru – 560025
Contact No.: 080-43434646
Fort Office
One Forbes, 2D, 2nd floor, VB Gandhi Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai – 400001
Contact No.: 022-40791700
1. Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
Website: http://www.amsshardul.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shardul-amarchand-mangaldas/
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, is one of India’s leading law firms which helps their clients grow, innovate, and thrive. For over a century, they have built a reputation for their expertise, specialised solutions, and the ability to think ahead. They find the most relevant and highly tailored solutions to their clients’ composite legal challenges.
Practice Areas
With a constantly evolving legal, regulatory, and business environment, they are determined to help their clients embrace change and stay ahead. Their multidisciplinary teams with global exposure and in-depth knowledge are frequently sought after by leading national and international organisations for qualitative, legal, and business-critical advice.
Committed to investing in the brightest legal talent, the Firm has more than 815 lawyers who, with 164 partners, offer solutions across diverse practice areas for industries, the central government and states, regulatory bodies, industry chambers and non-profit organisations. Our offices are spread across New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata.
They deliver original and exceptional solutions in the fields of mergers & acquisitions, tax, competition law, dispute resolution & arbitration, regulatory litigation, capital markets and private equity practices. They are an exclusive member firm of Lex Mundi in India, which helps clients access our partner network across more than 125 countries.
Contact Information
Delhi Office
Amarchand Towers, 216 Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase III, New Delhi 110 020
T: +91 11 4159 0700, 4060 6060
Contact: Pallavi Shroff
Mumbai Office
Express Towers, 23rd Floor, Nariman Point, Mumbai, Maharashtra – 400 021,
T: +91 22 4933 5555
Contact: Akshay Chudasama
