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Greenberg Traurig is an international law firm with more than 1,800 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in 32 commercial and government centers across the United States and in Europe and Asia. The firm was selected as the 2007 USA Law Firm of the Year by Chambers and Partners. GT provides integrated, business-focused legal services for clients ranging from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. Our multidisciplinary team includes senior lawyers who have been the chief legal officers at major multinational companies and have spent years solving real-world problems in the business, political and legal arenas.
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 Pillsbury is a full-service law firm with market-leading strengths in the technology, energy, financial services and real estate sectors. With a presence in the world's major technology and financial centers, we counsel clients on all aspects of global business and litigation. We work in multidisciplinary teams that allow us to anticipate trends and bring a 360-degree perspective to complex business and legal issues--helping clients to take greater advantage of new opportunities and better mitigate risk.
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Duane Morris LLP, a full-service law firm of more than 650 attorneys, offers innovative solutions across diverse industries in the U.S and internationally to address the legal and business challenges of today's evolving global markets. Our Information Technologies & Telecom Practice Group lawyers have experience in transactions and litigation regarding the development, operation and licensing of IT systems, software and hardware, and the management of outsourcing projects. Sandra Jeskie, a partner in the Information Technologies & Telecom practice is Treasurer of the International Technology Law Association.
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PSA is a solution-driven, pragmatic business law firm that has carved a special niche in the Indian legal market by the quality of its legal service, responsiveness and client commitment. The range, breadth and depth of the firm are broad-based and full-service. Be it start-ups, or large conglomerates with global footprints, the firm provides high-quality legal services in a timely and a cost-effective manner. We focus on providing practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. Located in India's capital city - New Delhi - we work all over the country.
The firm is headed by Priti Suri, a lawyer with over two decades of experience in three continents. We believe in hiring the most broadly and deeply trained collection of lawyers in India. Our lawyers are also trained rigorously within broad practice areas. Possessing a uniquely diverse experience, they work closely with each other so that the clients get the benefit of exceptional professional judgment and innovative solutions
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Singhania & Partners is one of the largest full service national law firm in India. It has established a successful international corporate and commercial law practice out of its offices at New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai and alliances with local counsels at 65 additional locations across India in 20 States. The firm comprises of a team of over 60 professionals in-house including Chartered Accountants and Company Secretaries with dual qualification of law.
The firm's practice areas include corporate & commercial law, intellectual property as well as arbitration and litigation. The firm has considerable experience in cross border transactions in the areas of joint ventures, foreign collaborations, technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions, as well as in assisting it's clients in establishing wholly owned subsidiaries in India. The infrastructure practice of the firm has been active in projects in roads, power as well as telecom sector. The intellectual property practice comprises of both contentious as well as non-contentious matters in the areas of designs, trademark, copyright and patents. In the recent public private initiative of the Government of India, the firm has had considerable experience in the areas of disinvestments and privatization. Other areas the firm has been involved in include banking and finance, tax, regulatory approvals from governmental authorities such as Foreign Investment Promotion Board and Reserve Bank of India, litigation, domestic and international arbitration, labor and employment, real estate etc.
Singhania & Partners represents number of large as well as small and medium Indian businesses as well as multinational corporations including Fortune 500 companies. The firm also represents number of large Indian Government owned companies.
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With its striking knowledge of the technology sectors and the IT, commercial and outsourcing industry the firm boasts an outstanding reputation for innovation and developing creative solutions. We have focused on providing a comprehensive range of legal services to the IT sector for many years. We provide a full service in connection with all IT and IT related projects. Our clients are organisations in the public and private sectors, including a cross section of blue-chip companies as well as developers, distributors and suppliers of IT systems and services.
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Osborne Clarke is one of Europe's most respected and dynamic law firms. The firm's success is the result of delivering excellent business-focused legal advice in an energetic, straightforward and efficient way. Osborne Clarke has a strong history of bringing technology companies to Europe and advising market leading and high performing organisations on their needs from its UK, European and US offices.
Osborne Clarke represents a number of India's leading companies in respect of their European operations. Our clients include TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Hinduja Group, Satyam, Larsen & Toubro and MindTree. To keep up to date with the dynamic and fast growing Indian market our experts make regular visits to the sub-continent. Our clients benefit from the knowledge gained during these visits and our awareness of the cultural aspects of doing business in India.
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Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin is a national law firm located in San Francisco, California. The firm provides exceptional legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas and industries to clients who are among the most sophisticated consumers of legal services. Our clients include leading local, national and international companies and entities, both public and private, engaged in industries as diverse as technology, life sciences, media and entertainment, consumer, retail, finance, securities, leasing and publishing. While maintaining one of the industry's highest ratios of directors (partners) to associates, we provide depth where it is needed and, at all times, the expertise, creativity and responsiveness that only the direct involvement of senior attorneys can ensure. The firm is widely recognized for its excellence in advising public and private companies on a wide variety of corporate and business law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financing, securities, financial services, tax, employment, antitrust, intellectual property and regulatory enforcement matters and for its leading litigation practice, where we particularly excel at complex cases and special proceedings where the stakes are highest. At Howard Rice, we strive to earn the respect of our clients in every matter every day. We are proud of the quality and value we consistently deliver, and the trust and loyalty our clients show us in return is the best measure of our success.
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 Founded in 2000, Franklin is an independent, top-quality, internationally oriented law firm based in Paris, France. Franklin provides its French and international clients with the expertise of over fifty lawyers whose market-recognized practices cover the key areas of French business law. Franklin's manner of practicing law is designed to meet the demands of a diverse clientele:
- Forefront expertise provided by a seasoned team of mostly French and American attorneys, having received high-level academic and professional training, both in France and abroad, and who are comfortable working in French and English;
- High reactivity of client-dedicated teams, where each partner is actively involved throughout each assignment and reports to the client personally;
- Complete flexibility, inherent in a light structure operating independently from any network, which permits Franklin to be cost-effective and, in cross-border transactions, to freely choose the foreign attorneys best suited to the specific needs of each project;
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the client's business, which comes from a focus on creating stable, multi-practice teams to assist the client in finding pragmatic, business-oriented solutions to its legal challenges.
In 2006 Franklin broke new ground in France by establishing an India Desk led by one of the Firm's founding partners -- Bradley L. Joslove, who is a recognized leader in the areas of technology transactions and international trade. The India Desk is also led by Meghna Prakash, an experience Indian attorney.
For over 3 years, the India Desk has pursued a twofold objective: to support Indian companies that invest in France and French companies that invest in India. The India Desk provides tailored services to numerous Indian industrial groups and state-owned companies on the full gamut of French law issues. Franklin also assists French companies, often in tandem with Indian law firms, in structuring their Indian investments, setting up subsidiaries, drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements and complying with the myriad of rules and regulations that affect their business ventures.
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Narasappa, Doraswamy & Raja (NDR) is one of the best law firms in Bangalore.
NDR advises Indian and international clients, including leading companies, funds and other organizations, on a number of high profile, ground-breaking transactions and business activities in India and otherwise. Its partner-led services are appreciated by its clients.
NDR partners are leaders in their fields of practice. Each of them have a rich mix of domestic and international experience having worked in several legal and financial capitals around the world including London, Boston, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New Delhi.
The latest Asia Pacific Legal500 (2009-2010) ranks the Firm as a Tier I law firm in Bangalore highlighting our flourishing cross-border practice. The Firm is also featured in Chambers Asia 2009's national rankings for Corporate / M & A and Private Equity practices
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Established in 1972, Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services that focus on global technology industries and issues. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients' technologies, industry environments and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers. More than 275 attorneys offer corporate, intellectual property, litigation and tax services from our offices in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Boise.
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J. Sagar Associates ("JSA") is a leading national law firm in India with over 200 lawyers and consultants including 41 partners based in New Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. For almost two decades, they have provided legal advice and services to international and domestic clients.
The Firm's mission is to provide outstanding legal solutions in their chosen practice areas with a strong emphasis on ethics. The clients benefit from their expertise and experience as a large firm while still enjoying the privilege of personal attention and responsiveness of a small firm.
The advice is delivered by well informed, accessible, partner-led teams who strive to provide the highest quality of service to clients, by listening, understanding their needs, responding promptly and living up to the commitments that are made. Plain English is used to communicate verbally and in documentation.
JSA's practice extends across diverse sectors of industry and services such as Consumer & Industrial Products, Consumer Durables, Financial Services & Banking, and Energy & Transportation. The Firm understands and appreciates the different challenges that clients face in the current business environment as a result of technological change, evolving government regulation and competitive pressures in the marketplace. JSA provides a diverse set of legal services to clients and assists them to meet these challenges successfully.
The practice areas are Corporate Commercial; Banking & Finance; Capital Markets & Securities; Regulatory & Policy; Indirect Tax; Dispute Resolution; and Employment.
The sectors include Energy (Power, Oil & Gas); Mining; Hospitality & Leisure; Education; Asset Management & Financial Institutions; Transportation (Aviation, Railways & Metro, Surface Transport and Ports); Real Estate; Knowledge Based Industries (IT / ITES / Life Sciences); Media, Entertainment & Sports; Communications (Telecom & Broadcasting); Municipal & Developmental Infrastructure; Retail & Franchising; Construction & Engineering; Insurance; and Defence & Internal Security.
JSA has been awarded as the "Top Three Indian Law Firms" and as the "Best Employer in Indian Law Firms" by the first annual Rainmaker Law Firm Survey 2008.
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| 2011 INDIA TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP AWARD SPONSORS |
Dr. Widmer & Partners, located in Switzerland, has provided comprehensive legal services for over 25 years in the areas of Information Technology, Internet, E-Business, and Telecommunications law. The lawyers at Dr. Widmer & Partners have extensive expertise in advising governmental authorities, as well as national and international enterprises, both public and private, across a broad range of practice areas and industries. Dr. Widmer & Partners offer business-focused, efficient and innovative solutions of high quality that will minimize the legal risks of their client's business transactions and, by doing so, contributing to the their economic success.
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CMS Hasche Sigle is Germany's largest law firm with more than 500 lawyers in nine German commercial centres. With its full-service approach the firm advises companies and groups from all sectors of industry on every aspect of commercial law.
CMS Hasche Sigle is part of CMS, the organisation of independent European law and tax firms of choice for businesses based in, or looking to move into, Europe. CMS has in-depth knowledge of legal, tax and business issues at regional level and delivers client-focused services through a joint strategy executed locally across 28 jurisdictions from 56 offices in Western and Central Europe and beyond. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, CMS was established in 1999 and today comprises nine CMS firms employing over 2,200 lawyers. CMS Hasche Sigle is also a member of the World Law Group, enabling the firm to deliver fast, high-quality advice worldwide.
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The Information Technology Law Group in Matheson Ormsby Prentice was the first such dedicated unit in a law firm in Ireland. The Group consists of a dedicated team of experienced commercial technology lawyers who assist clients in their day to day operations as they grow their businesses; form strategic partnerships and expand into new markets. The Group acts for some of the largest multi-national ICT companies with operations in Ireland, as well as some of the largest corporate and public sector users of information technology in the country. The Group specialises in advising clients on the continuously changing area of information technology law. Its practice encompasses all aspects of computer, telecommunications and internet law. On a day to day basis the Group is involved in advising both suppliers and users of hardware, software, telecommunications and internet products and services on the contractual aspects of the technology, and has advised on many of the largest and most complex IT, computer and systems integration, outsourcing and managed services contracts in Ireland.
The Group’s experience of acting for both suppliers and users gives it the edge of having a full understanding of the legal and commercial issues that effect and concern both sides. The Group assisted the then Department of Public Enterprise in the drafting of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000, and is consistently rated by independent publications as leaders in the field of IT, telecommunications and electronic commerce law.
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 The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a not-for-profit membership association of more than 5,900 trademark owners and professionals, from more than 190 countries, dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective national and international commerce. For over 130 years, INTA continues its mission to represent the trademark community, shape public policy and advance professional knowledge and development.
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 Society of India Law Firms (SILF) is the apex body of law firms in India. SILF was established in the year 2000 with the aim of protecting, safeguarding and promoting the interests of Law firms in India.
The Bar Associations of the different courts in India represent the individual members of the legal profession in India. Law firms have not been historically represented in an organized and streamlined manner. A dire need was felt to form an association of this kind in view of various aspects of the practice of law that are peculiar to law firms in contradistinction to the role of individual practicing lawyers.
The members of SILF include the top most law firms in India. SILF strives to create an atmosphere that has enabled Indian law firms to match the technology, manpower skill and the infrastructure that most of the foreign law firms possesses. SILF serves as a forum for exchange of ideas and information as also a medium for interaction with the government, the judiciary and the bureaucracy. In a short period of eight years, SILF has achieved many laurels amongst them being recognized by IBA (International Bar Association), the UIA (Union International des Avocats) as well as by LAWASIA. Mr. Lalit Bhasin, Managing Partner, Bhasin & Co., is the President of SILF.
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Manupatra the pioneers in online legal research in India are leading providers of Legal, Taxation, Corporate & Business Policy databases in Print, CDROM and Online format. Manupatra is the preferred provider of decision support information to the legal and business community in India and Internationally with its comprehensive database and one stop research solution.
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 The CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES - CILS/the CENTER - is a non-profit research, training, and law publications institute, established and operating under Austrian law and with its international headquarters based in Salzburg, Austria since 1976. Its essential purpose is to promote the dissemination of information among members of the international legal community, through research and publication projects, post-graduate and professional training programs, and academic seminars, professional symposia and continuing legal education conferences.
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Lex Witness - India's 1st Magazine on Legal & Corporate Affairs
The Indian legal universe has close to 5 million individuals, one of the highest in the world who, directly or indirectly, are a part of it. This excludes the masses that are facing or fighting cases in numerous courts in India. On the other hand, the media universe in India has been exploding with newer formats on unheard kind of subjects. However, there is not even a single magazine that exclusively deals with legal matters, so to say. Witness is to fill this very greatly felt vacuum. WITNESS vows to be a high quality monthly magazine with the powers of fresh and original content that would deal exclusively with subjects pertaining to legality.
Country's top notch practitioners and experts are being invited to contribute in WITNESS with what we feel is relevant to all stakeholders in this profession, aiming at brainstorming between the legal luminaries and hence bettering this practice in all its aspects.
The readers of Witness are mighty, high-profile, influential HNI's. Witness addresses such a vital section of the society which is very large in number – the ones who frame the laws and the ones who practice it.
Witness covers an interesting bandwidth of readers right from the core legal community of the country that includes the Justices, Judges, Lawyers, Advocates, Bureaucrats, Corporate legal professionals, heads of law firms etc. With an initial circulation of 25,000 copies, Witness is available in all the major metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad as well as in the mini metros like Jaipur, Nagpur, Dehradun, Indore, Surat etc.
Not only India, Witness has international circulations in the UK and US that prompt the global legal community to absorb the developments taking place in our legal process.
Publication – SriGro Interactive Pvt Ltd. Print Run – 25,000 copies monthly Subscriptions – Over 10, 000 Readership – Over 2 Lacs all over India
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