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“JSA has been a great partner in most of our negotiations,” says Vinayak Parameswaran, head of corporate finance and innovation at WeWork India. “They made navigating transactions during the pandemic much easier than we expected it to be.”
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Sunil Chari, the managing director and co-founder of Rossari Biotech, engaged JSA for its IPO. “Our issue was the first in corona times,” says Chari. “The JSA team worked under tight timelines, day and night, to ensure the IPO was a superb success, and all this when its offices were closed and the city was in lockdown.” Chari describes capital markets specialist Arka Mookerjee as “a phenomenal leader”.
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“The domain knowledge of?JSA?… stands out among their peers,” says Raj Arora, vice president, legal, at BSES Rajdhani Power, who has used the firm since 2002. He recommends partners Anupam Varma, Nikhil Sharma and Rahul Kinra, and gives the firm the thumbs up “for all policy-related and regulatory work” for advisory and litigation.
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Sidharrth Shankar and his team, a client who used the firm’s PE expertise, and wishes to remain anonymous, says: “[Senior associate] Hema Patnaik is an outstanding professional – without Hema the deal would not have been possible.”
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Amit Ray, regional director at LOT Polish Airlines, which recently commenced flights to India, used JSA for “aviation regulatory preparation work” and says: “The quality of the responses, the timelines which have been met and the professionalism have been outstanding.” He is all praise for partner Poonam Verma for her “collaborative approach, commitment, strategic thinking, and overall professionalism”.
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“JSA provided thoughtful, practical advice on Indian laws and regulations in multiple areas in connection with a recent acquisition,” says Leigh P Ryan, chief legal officer and chief compliance officer of Teleperformance Group. “The entire team was very strong across all disciplines.” Ryan commends partners Vaibhav Choukse and Amitabh Kumar, in the competition law practice, whom he says are supported by a strong team of associates, and partner Tony Verghese, in the corporate department, who “was extremely helpful – responsive, experienced, knowledgeable, versatile, practical”.
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A lender who has long used the services of JSA’s banking and finance practice, and recently used it for a restructuring transaction, says the firm has “a very robust risk identification culture”, which he says is a key attribute for a legal adviser in this area.
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Rajesh Bagga, group general counsel at Reliance ADA Group, is impressed that three lawyers from JSA constantly stayed with the in-house team as it worked non-stop for two weeks on a transaction. “That is commitment,” says Bagga. Having used JSA in an M&A transaction, Bagga commends joint managing partner Dina Wadia for being “very accessible and responsive” and partner Manav Raheja for understanding business needs and for his swift delivery. “They are quite focused on the value we want to secure from the transaction and do act in complete sync with us,” says Bagga.
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Hemant Kumar, group general counsel at Larsen & Toubro, describes the firm as “excellent, diligent and result driven”. JSA assisted the company in a couple of arbitrations and Kumar praises the lawyers involved – partners Dhirendra Negi and Ananya Kumar and senior associate Pragya Chauhan. “Their research, the manner of dealing with the arbitration forums, was extraordinary,” says Kumar.
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Praveen P Thomas, director and senior legal counsel at SSG Advisors, says the firm is “cost efficient” and that its banking and finance practice is led by “solution-oriented partners”. He commends Aashit Shah, partner and chair of JSA’s banking and finance practice, for developing “a strong team … in a market where banking and finance specialists are difficult to find at junior levels”.
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Having benefited from JSA’s aviation expertise, M Shivkumar, a vice president at Jet Airways, says of partner Poonam Verma that “it’s very rare to find someone more dedicated,” and that her “techno-commercial knowledge, considering that she is a lawyer, is extremely good, [which] makes the life of the client easy”.
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