ESTABLISHED IN 1991
Total number of professionals: 390+ (125 partners)
Principal office: Gurugram
Other offices: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram, Hyderabad and New Delhi
Our services
JSA is a leading national law firm in India with more than 390 professionals operating out of seven offices located in: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi.
Our practice is organised along service lines and sector specialisations that provides legal services to top Indian corporates, Fortune 500 companies, multinational banks and financial institutions, governmental and statutory authorities, and multilateral and bilateral institutions.
Why we are unique
With a keen focus on learning and specialised practices, we keep in touch with the changing environment in which our clients operate. We take pride in combining the expertise and diversity of experience of a large firm with the personalised attention and responsiveness of a boutique firm. Our lawyers work seamlessly across practice areas and offices to assist our clients.
Our commitment
Through our commitment to social responsibility, we serve our communities by rendering “pro bono” legal services and supporting social responsibility initiatives. The firm has committed to achieve an average of 60 pro bono hours per attorney per year. Our work in the pro bono space extends to assisting on the formulation of community sensitive and meaningful policies, laws and legal frameworks to facilitate economic and social development at the national, regional, city and neighbourhood levels.
We walk the talk
JSA’s vision is to be the finest Indian law firm strengthened by our core values: exceed client expectations; integrity in whatever we do; belief that “people matter”; an understanding that we best serve our clients with teamwork and collaboration; and that the beauty of our profession is constant learning. We honour and pursue diversity. We invest in our attorneys with focused continuing legal education and training in industry related issues and soft skills.
Client focus
Our practice has been organised into three clusters – Corporate, Finance, and Disputes with 30 service lines. We serve our clients through partner-led teams with domain knowledge across 20 sectors: Agriculture & forestry; banking & financial services; capital markets & securities; construction and engineering; defence & internal security; education; energy – power & hydrocarbon; hospitality, tourism & retail; insurance & pension; investment funds and asset management; life sciences, healthcare and pharma; manufacturing, mines & minerals; non-governmental sector; real estate; services; technology; media & sports; telecommunications & broadcasting; transport & logistics; urban infrastructure; smart cities; public procurement.
Independent intelligence on this law firm
The following information is sourced directly from India Business Law Journal and/or Law.asia and is not part of the directory listing provided by the law firm.
Testimonials
“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.”
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”.
“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.
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.”
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”.
“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”.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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”.
Notable Deals
Recognised by India Business Law Journal as Deals of the Year
| Reliance’s jumbo bond issue | 2022 | US$4 billion | Details |
| Global Health’s IPO booster for hospital sector | 2022 | US$275 million | Details |
| CredAvenue fintech canters into unicorn club | 2022 | US$70 million | Details |
| National Insurance sets insurer-reinsurer precedent | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| Crackdown on kraft paper makers | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| Mindtree merger creates massive IT server | 2022 | US$3.5 billion | Details |
| Investment mounts in ShareChat social media | 2022 | US$520 million | Details |
| NIIF backs electric scooter maker Ather | 2022 | US$128 million | Details |
| UK’s Cinesite pockets animation studio Assemblage | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| Google stake in Bharti Airtel | 2022 | US$700 million | Details |
| SBI extends Sri Lanka credit | 2022 | US$1 billion | Details |
| ReNew’s groundbreaking de-SPAC merger | 2021 | US$8 billion | Details |
| PayTM’s rollercoaster IPO | 2021 | US$2.4 billion | Details |
| Zomato IPO blazes digital trail | 2021 | US$1.25 billion | Details |
| PFC’s maiden euro green bond | 2021 | US$343.5 million | Details |
| Shareholder dispute at IndiGo | 2021 | N/A | Details |
| SBI’s maiden SOFR loan facility | 2021 | US$100 million | Details |
| Piramal acquires insolvent Dewan | 2021 | US$4.6 billion | Details |
| Restructuring of Shapoorji Pallonji’s debt | 2021 | US$2.69 billion | Details |
| Blackstone’s big buyout of Mphasis stake | 2021 | US$2.8 billion | Details |
| Blackstone buy signals market maturity | 2021 | US$1 billion | Details |
| KKR takes control of Vini Cosmetics | 2021 | US$625 million | Details |
| Pharmeasy’s unicorn round | 2021 | US$350 million | Details |
| CoinDCX becomes unicorn | 2021 | US$90 million | Details |
| Reliance’s jumbo bond issue | 2022 | US$4 billion | Details |
| Global Health’s IPO booster for hospital sector | 2022 | US$275 million | Details |
| CredAvenue fintech canters into unicorn club | 2022 | US$70 million | Details |
| National Insurance sets insurer-reinsurer precedent | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| Crackdown on kraft paper makers | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| Mindtree merger creates massive IT server | 2022 | US$3.5 billion | Details |
| Investment mounts in ShareChat social media | 2022 | US$520 million | Details |
| NIIF backs electric scooter maker Ather | 2022 | US$128 million | Details |
| UK’s Cinesite pockets animation studio Assemblage | 2022 | N/A | Details |
| Google stake in Bharti Airtel | 2022 | US$700 million | Details |
| SBI extends Sri Lanka credit | 2022 | US$1 billion | Details |
| ReNew’s groundbreaking de-SPAC merger | 2021 | US$8 billion | Details |
| PayTM’s rollercoaster IPO | 2021 | US$2.4 billion | Details |
| Zomato IPO blazes digital trail | 2021 | US$1.25 billion | Details |
| PFC’s maiden euro green bond | 2021 | US$343.5 million | Details |
| Shareholder dispute at IndiGo | 2021 | N/A | Details |
| SBI’s maiden SOFR loan facility | 2021 | US$100 million | Details |
| Piramal acquires insolvent Dewan | 2021 | US$4.6 billion | Details |
| Restructuring of Shapoorji Pallonji’s debt | 2021 | US$2.69 billion | Details |
| Blackstone’s big buyout of Mphasis stake | 2021 | US$2.8 billion | Details |
| Blackstone buy signals market maturity | 2021 | US$1 billion | Details |
| KKR takes control of Vini Cosmetics | 2021 | US$625 million | Details |
| Pharmeasy’s unicorn round | 2021 | US$350 million | Details |
| CoinDCX becomes unicorn | 2021 | US$90 million | Details |
Contact us
Gurugram
Sandstone Crest, Sushant Lok – 1
Gurgaon – 122 009, India
T: +91 124 4390 600
E: gurugram@jsalaw.com
Mumbai
Vakils House, 18 Sprott Road
Ballard Estate
Mumbai – 400 001, India
T: +91 22 4341 8600
E: mumbai@jsalaw.com
New Delhi
B-303, 3rd Floor, Ansal Plaza
Hudco Place
August Kranti Marg
New Delhi – 110 049, India
T: +91 11 4311 0600
E: newdelhi@jsalaw.com
Bengaluru
Level 3, Prestige Obelisk
3 Kasturba Road
Bengaluru 560 001, India
T: +91 80 4350 3600
E: bengaluru@jsalaw.com
Chennai
29, Bannari Amman Towers
2nd Floor, Block – A
29, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai
Mylapore, Chennai – 600 004
T: +91 44 4930 6600
E: chennai@jsalaw.com
Hyderabad
Plot No. 391B, Road No.81
Film Nagar, Jubilee Hills
Hyderabad – 500 096, India
T: +91 40 2363 5600
E: hyderabad@jsalaw.com
Ahmedabad
A-502 & 503, Shapath Hexa,
Opposite Gujarat High Court,
Near Sola Bridge,
Janta Nagar Kakoldiya Road, S G
Highway
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380060, India
T: +91 79 6611 1061
E: ahmedabad@jsalaw.com
Website
www.jsalaw.com
