Less than three years away from his firm’s 100-year anniversary, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co’s Shardul Shroff is ambitious as ever. The corporate partner, who co-heads India’s largest law firm alongside his brother Cyril, talks of possibly opening a ninth domestic office in one of the country’s second-tier cities, and remains committed to breaking the 100-partner barrier by the end of the year. The firm currently has 86 partners.
Perhaps most importantly, his sights remain set on launching Amarchand’s first international office – a move that could spark a major turning point in a legal market that has been purely domestic up to this point. Shroff identifies Singapore as potentially the destination of choice. “Singapore [is the strongest contender] because its links with India are quite strong,” he explains. “Singapore enables clients to service the whole of the ASEAN market.
