BackThe 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. We take pride in our approach to work that focuses on understanding clients’ business and anticipating their legal needs (present and future) and provide pragmatic and commercial solutions.
Our vision is to be one of the most progressive and innovative global law firms. For us, “progressive” and “innovative” are mindsets and attitudes, an approach to how we do things. We instinctively take a fresh perspective on situations, exploring whether there are newer and better ways of delivering practical, commercial solutions to the challenges our clients face in today’s rapidly changing business landscape.
Our ambition is to be a respectable law firm providing efficient and courteous service, to act with fairness, integrity and diligence, to be socially responsible and to enjoy life.
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Very responsive and available - I get a global team working across many time zones. The lawyers are very commercially oriented, practical & strategic.
Chambers Global 2016: Banking & FinanceOur Foundation
Over a century of experience in providing cutting-edge advisory services across all disciplines giving timely and commercially viable solutions to complex business and legal issues. We provide an integrated and solution oriented approach for every transaction and advice sought. Partner-led transactions to give clients the comfort and confidence they seek.
Best practices by investing in latest technological support and implementing the best knowledge management methods available and Global coverage by sharing current legal, regulatory and procedural updates critical to our clients’ business and organisation
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Practice Area Experts
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Innovation
An Umbrella of Services
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Impeccable Project Management
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Apt Team Allocation
Leadership Team
The Firm is run by an elected Executive Committee which comprises of partners from all offices of the Firm. The Executive Committee is responsible for strategic direction and management oversight and is assisted by the Firm’s Management Team in the day-to-day running of the Firm as well as implementation of key strategic and operational initiatives across the Firm.
History
- 1911-1920
- 1941-1950
- 1951-1960
- 1961-1970
- 1971-1980
- 1981-1990
- 1991-2000
- 2001-2010
- 2011-2020
- 2021-2030
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Founding Day
Debi Prasad Khaitan and J.N. Mazumdar set up the first Khaitan & Co office at 10, Old Post Office Street, Kolkata
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Debi Prasad Khaitan was appointed as one of the members of the drafting committee of The Constitution of India
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Khaitan & Co handled the deal between R.K. Dalmia and the Sahu Jains for Bennett Coleman & Co, owner of “The Times of India”
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Khaitan & Co implemented India’s first ever demerger for sugar companies Balrampur and Tulsipur at a time when the Companies Act only contemplated mergers under schemes of rearrangement
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Opened the Delhi office to continue providing legal support to client branching out from Kolkata
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Khaitan & Co advised the trustees of the Nizam of Hyderabad on wealth tax and valuation of the Nizam’s jewels
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Khaitan & Co advised on the long-winding split of Indian Express post Mr Ramnath Goenka’s demise
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Opened the Bengaluru office at the very nascency of the IT industry
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Opened the Mumbai office on the 90th anniversary of the Firm
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Khaitan & Co advised on the contentious Priyamvada Devi Birla will case
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Khaitan & Co advised on SREI’s LSE listing, the very first Indian NBFC to do so
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Khaitan & Co celebrates a century of excellence
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650+ lawyers including partners
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KCO Family is now 1000 members strong!
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Khaitan & Co opens new offices in Singapore & Chennai.
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Khaitan & Co opens new office in Pune.
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Khaitan & Co opens new office in Ahmedabad.