Chadha & Co

The firm: Chadha & Co. was founded in 2002 by Namita Chadha, one of India’s leading women corporate lawyers. The firm started by advising foreign corporations doing business in India on FDI and corporate/commercial matters. Today, the firm has strong and reputed practices across industries and areas of law. The firm is led by Ms Namita Chadha, founder and managing partner, and Mr Rahul Chadha, managing partner.

Both the managing partners of the firm are able to bring to the table their practical experience of having worked in-house and establishing and managing businesses in India. This distinguishes the firm from its competitors and enables it to quickly understand complex issues and provide practical, easy to implement legal solutions to clients. The firm is known for its business-savvy approach to legal problem-solving.

The firm comprises experienced, passionate and business-savvy lawyers and consultants with an international perspective and strong problem-solving abilities. The team comprises five partners and 36 advocates. The partners of the firm are involved in a hands-on manner on every assignment. This ensures that the quality of work does not have peaks and troughs – the know-how, experience and commercial understanding of the partners is crucial to the firm’s ability to provide consistent, world-class service.

The team is supported by management professionals, chartered accountants and company secretaries and, where necessary, technical experts. It works with correspondent lawyers across India and is able to provide the same high quality of service in a cost-effective manner anywhere in the country.

The firm’s clients, from over 32 countries, include leading Fortune 500 corporations as well as small and medium enterprises and family-owned companies. Clients primarily are from the US/Canada, Western Europe and Japan.

The firm’s offices are located in New Delhi, but more than 50% of the work that the firm does is outside the national capital region. It routinely acts for clients in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra (especially Mumbai and Pune), Karnataka (Bangalore), Andhra Pradesh/Telengana (Hyderabad), Tamil Nadu (Chennai), and West Bengal (Kolkata).

Areas of practice: Chadha & Co. is a full-service corporate and commercial law firm. It is reputed for high-quality, practical, proactive and cost-effective legal advice.

The firm has a specialised inbound practice in advising foreign corporations doing business in India on all Indian laws and regulations that are relevant to their business. It advises clients on their India entry strategy, structuring their entry, establishing Indian operations, and on legal and regulatory issues while they conduct their operations in the country.

The firm has expertise in the areas of inbound investments; M&A; joint ventures; technology transfer; corporate and commercial, private equity; banking, restructuring; corporate/project finance; tax; corporate governance; compliance; litigation and arbitration; white-collar crime; labour, employment, industrial relations; real estate; infrastructure; information technology and outsourcing; and competition.

The firm advises clients from the following industries: agriculture; automotive; aviation; chemicals; consulting services; defence; energy – power, mining; food and beverages (including liquor); financial services – banking, private equity, insurance; information technology and semiconductors; infrastructure – roads, railways, ports; life sciences – healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology; manufacturing; railways; real estate and construction; retail (single-brand, multi-brand, luxury) and trade; security and private investigations; sports and entertainment; telecommunications; and travel, tourism and hotels.