Our dedicated India Desk helps provide streamlined and dedicated support to Indian entities seeking advice on Singapore law and legal services in Singapore as well as Singapore-based and other ASEAN clients doing business with or investing in Indian entities.
The India Desk is managed by the firm’s Managing Partner, Peter Doraisamy, a Singapore-qualified lawyer who has significant experience working with Indian clients and Indian-related matters.
The firm’s India Desk team consists of:
- Lakshman Shankar, an Indian-qualified lawyer with over twenty-five years’ practice experience in India.
- Mato Kotwani, a Singapore-qualified lawyer who focuses on dispute resolution, white collar crimes, data protection, employment law, and regulatory matters.
- Pranav V. Kamnani, an Indian-qualified disputes lawyer who focuses on international arbitration. Pranav is also certified for admission to the New York State Bar.
Clients benefit from our understanding of Indian business culture. Over the years, the firm has built strong working relationships with reputable Indian law firms across various practice areas and industry sectors, including but not limited to, commercial litigation, international arbitration, M&A and corporate advisory work, shipping, international trade, and intellectual property.
We are instructed by Indian law firms acting for their clients in India or Singapore, on transactions and disputes.
We also act for Indian clients based in Singapore and in India seeking to do business in Singapore or have their disputes resolved here, and often also for Singaporean entities involved in disputes with Indian parties.
Our dedicated India desk helps provide streamlined and dedicated support to:
The India Desk is managed by Lakshman Shankar, who is an Indian-educated and Indian-qualified lawyer with over twenty years’ practice experience in India, and by the firm’s managing partner, Peter Doraisamy, a Singapore-qualified lawyer who has significant experience working with Indian clients and Indian related matters. Clients benefit from our understanding of Indian business culture.
Over the years, the firm has built strong working relationships with reputable Indian law firms across various practice areas and industry sectors. This includes, but is not limited to, commercial litigation, international arbitration, M&A and corporate advisory work, shipping and international trade, and intellectual property.
Our India Desk is well supported by seasoned professionals practising across a wide range of legal fields in Singapore, providing the Desk a strong foundation and back-end support in complex disputes and cross-border transactions where both Indian and Singaporean jurisdictions apply. It enables us to offer our clients complete and comprehensive services, dovetailing across different practice areas.
Our original core competence, commercial litigation and arbitration, now has the benefit of expertise in other practice areas. Our lawyers routinely handle both domestic and international arbitration, having been engaged on significant and complex disputes ever since the firm was established. Please refer to our page on our arbitration practice for details: link
We have worked on cross-border investments, mergers and acquisitions, business contracts and can be of immense help to clients wishing to establish business entities in Singapore. We are also well placed to offer regulatory advice and assistance.
Our abilities arise from intensive work in different industry sectors: IT, telecom, healthcare, BPOs, solar power, renewable energy, shipping, banking, to name a few. We are well placed to render services in most practice areas, including:
Indian business entities and private individuals searching for international business opportunities look at Singapore as an obvious choice. This gives Singaporean entities, whether investors, service providers or others, attractive business prospects. The SIAC has become the most preferred arbitral institution in Asia, giving rise to an increased need for Singapore-India legal services. We believe PDLegal can play an important role.
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PDLegal Asia (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
6th Floor, 6 O-NES Tower, Sukhumvit Soi 6, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10110
Tel : +66 2 254 6415 Email : [email protected]
9am – 6pm Monday – Friday
© PD Legal LLC is a limited liability company registered in Thailand. The Firm is regulated by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority of Thailand. All rights reserved 2021.
© PD Legal LLC is a limited liability company registered in Thailand. The Firm is regulated by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority of Thailand. All rights reserved 2021.