Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has been representing clients doing business in India for more than a decade. Akin Gump’s India practice group has been identified as one of the most prominent among international firms, as well as a leading legal adviser on outbound investment from the Americas to India as ranked by India Business Law Journal (2007). The practice serves a broad client base of both US-based clients in India and India-based clients abroad, including Fortune 500 companies, investment banks and other financial institutions, and has capabilities in a broad range of areas including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, international trade matters and infrastructure projects. The group places special emphasis on representing investment funds investing in India, both on their fund structuring and transactional work.
Through its active India practice, Akin Gump maintains cutting-edge knowledge of developments in the Indian legal and business environment. Akin Gump lawyers frequently travel to India from London and the United States to conduct business and to meet with government and commercial leaders. The firm maintains close relationships with most of the major Indian law firms, including Amarchand Mangaldas, Jyoti Sagar & Associates, Nishith Desai Associates, Dua & Associates, and Zia Mody/AZB Chambers. In addition, Akin Gump has more than 10 lawyers of Indian/South Asian origin at the partner, counsel and associate levels, with language capabilities in several of the major Indian languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil.