As two well-known intellectual property law firms merge, Rebecca Abraham asks what clients should expect
In 2013, six lawyers who appear before Delhi High Court were designated as senior advocates, five of them in February and one, Prathiba Singh, in December. Ever since then there have been questions about what lay ahead for Singh & Singh, the reputed intellectual property law firm that Singh, one of India’s leading patent litigators, headed. The Bar Council of India Rules prohibit senior advocates from accepting briefs or instructions directly from clients.
So when it was recently announced that Singh & Singh was to merge with Lall & Sethi, a 15-lawyer IP firm headed by Chander Lall, it was not altogether a surprise.
“I’m keeping my fingers crossed and wish them luck,” Gunjan Paharia, managing partner at ZeusIP a 17-lawyer New Delhi firm, told India Business Law Journal soon after news of the merger broke.
Yet as Sanjit Kaur Batra, senior counsel and legal manager at DuPont, says, it was “definitely big news”.
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