The Firm’s first international office reflects its increasing confidence in inbound and outbound opportunities for its diverse clientele.

Khaitan & Co will be opening its Singapore office next month. The key focus areas of this office will be to advise and assist its clients on matters concerning Indian laws. It will focus on delivering legal services on various cross-border M&A transactions, private and public investments; advising high net worth Indian families where the service areas will include international tax and succession planning, and leading and participating in international arbitrations involving Indian law.

Khaitan & Co will operate as a licensed foreign law practice in Singapore offering Indian law expertise, including international commercial arbitration, as specifically permitted by its license. The Singapore office will operate as an extension of Khaitan & Co’s India offices.

Anuj Shah (Partner, M&A, and Private Client Practice) and Jean Muller (Director, Strategy) will serve as the firm’s resident representatives in Singapore.

Anuj has over 15 years of experience in advising corporations, financial institutions, private equity sponsors and sovereign wealth funds in a broad range of corporate matters and M&A transactions and also acts as a trusted advisor to several Indian promoters on a wide range of personal and corporate matters.

 

Last month, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas announced it was setting up a representative office in Singapore, led by a full-time Singapore-based alumnus of the firm. It said it would be applying to the Singapore Legal Services Regulatory Authority for a foreign legal practice license in due course.