Nishith Desai

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Nishith Desai Associates

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Nishith Desai is the founder of the research-based strategy driven international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com) with offices in Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Singapore, Mumbai – BKC, New Delhi and Munich.

Nishith himself is a renowned international tax, corporate, IP lawyer researcher, published author and lecturer in leading academic institutions around the world. Soon after India opened up its economy to the outside world in 1991, he established the first five India Focused funds and pioneered the roots of asset management industry and the firm has now worked for over 900 funds across all classes of asset.

The Firm recently won an award for being the 'Most Innovative Indian Law Firm' and the '2nd Most Innovative Law firm in Asia and Australia'. Financial Times quoted "Nishith Desai...a constructively contrarian, created his law firm in 1990 using a model and approach radically different from that of the most international premium law firms".

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