A 70 year old full service law firm hailing from Kolkata, S. Jalan & Company has multi-locational presence with full-service offices in New Delhi, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Ranchi and Bangalore where it enjoys a coveted niche.
Today, the Firm is headed by 7 equity partners. The Firm advises and strategizes commercial transactions as well as contests commercial litigation and arbitrations on behalf of its clients. The Firm’s diverse client portfolios comprises business houses and industries of repute spread out across the globe in the infrastructure sector, real estate sector, manufacturing sector, FMCG sector, banking and financial sector, HNIs etc. The knowledge database, teams dedicated to round the clock service and practice area specific experts enables the Firm to provide services at par with international standards and requirements.
Founder of S. Jalan & Co.
The Founder of S. Jalan & Company, Late Mr. Shyamanand Jalan, was a senior solicitor and a legal luminary, both for his involvement as a solicitor in the Calcutta High Court and for his work as a leading real estate law expert. At the same time, Mr. Jalan was a thespian and a patron of Hindi Theatre in India. He was a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 1972.
The Spirited and Dynamic Partner of S. Jalan & Co.
Mr. Sourav Ghosh has been an Equity Partner of the Firm for more than 14 years and he has been instrumental in expansion of the Firm pan India. His enterprise and vision has steered the Firm to great heights including successfully branching out the operations of the Firm from Kolkata to pan India. He is a reputed Solicitor in the legal fraternity and also the industrial circle in India.
Mr. Ghosh, at a very young age has built a reputation for himself as an entrepreneurial lawyer and advises the business houses not only for legal solutions but also about business oriented legal solutions. His repertoire of clients includes multinational corporations associated with him for advisory, litigation and transactional work. Under his aegis in the past 10 years, a plethora of corporate houses have associated with the Firm as clientele and they continue to retain the services of the Firm. His expertise lies in business and commercial laws, real estate laws and dispute resolution. As a lawyer, he has dealt with a variety of matters like international arbitration in Singapore, Seoul, Jakarta and Hong Kong, mining documentation, international acquisition of companies, coal mine takeover etc. He has travelled extensively across the globe as a lawyer and continues to travel throughout India for his diverse clientele spread across the country.
Mr. Ghosh believes in organic growth of the Firm, that young lawyers joining as freshers should elevate themselves over time to equity partners within the Firm. This philosophy has found success as some Equity Partners and many Associate Partners working with the Firm today have all grown in the Firm over time.
Prompt and Proficient Delivery of Services
The Firm is led by spirited and dynamic partners supported by enthusiastic lawyers whose learning of the law and practical application thereof for professional assignments is par excellence. The Firm follows the shortest possible turnaround time in delivery of legal services, which gives it a unique competitive edge. The Firm’s multi-locational presence ensures a seamless network of lawyers across India, which caters to every legal requirement of clients. With lawyers dedicated to research on the latest developments in the field of law, there is continual knowledge sharing amongst the teams spread across all the offices, which allows for prompt and proficient delivery of services.
Satisfactory Experience with a Client
- Jalan & Co. has acted as a legal counsel for a leading nationalized bank of India in Strategic Debt Restructuring of 3 mining companies. The Firm has been successful in freeing from legal tangles and encumbrances a real estate project having investments of more than INR 400 Crores. The property was mired in a 50 year old litigation between 360 odd parties and the Firm, in a year’s time, secured a favorable order from the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. Such judgment has been reported in various journals throughout the country and today the project is one of the most sought after residential projects in Kolkata.
The Future Aspiration
According to Mr. Ghosh, as the law is evolving every day, traditional practices have to evolve to service oriented practices. More and more tribunals are being set up and the judicial framework is moving away from set norms. The High Courts and the Supreme Court are now acting more as constitutional courts and litigation lawyers now have a wider field to develop specialized practice. The Firm has set up a strong practice to cater to matters in various benches of the National Company Law Tribunals for company law matters as well as matters under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code across all the benches in India and represents financial creditors, operational creditors and corporate debtors.
Keeping in mind such avenues and opportunities, the Firm expanded to multiple locations and is now continuing to carry on city wise expansion of practice. The Firm is also opening up new departments of practice within existing offices to cater to the demands of the day.
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