Founded by Shri V. Lakshmikumaran and Shri V. Sridharan, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has been a leading law firm in India since 1985.

With 14 offices and over 400+ professionals specializing in corporate & commercial laws, dispute resolution, taxation, and intellectual property, LKS is well-known for its high ethical standards, quality work, and transparency in all its business dealings.

We hold a very high reputation for successfully arguing many landmark cases from quasi-judicial authorities to the Supreme Court of India. We have 35+ years of experience representing clients’ interests in over 50,000 tax disputes before various forums like appellate bodies, DGFT, Tribunals, High Courts, and over 2000 cases before the Supreme Court of India. 

Few of our practice areas are:

The Tax Division advises companies in all areas of tax, including direct and indirect tax. We offer consulting, advisory, litigation, and compliance services. We handle cases in all areas of taxation – GST, Customs, Income-tax, Special Economic Zones, Foreign Trade Policy, Transfer Pricing, and International Trade.

The General Corporate practice handles a company's entire life cycle, from advice on inception, incorporation and structuring, contracts, and regulatory compliances to corporate governance and mechanisms for transparency and accountability. The multidisciplinary team ensures our clients are compliant legally and commercially.

The Intellectual Property Team serves global businesses to hold and enforce intellectual property rights by assisting in filing, prosecution, registration, licensing, valuation, and defending rights against infringement. We offer opining on patentability, patenting, filing, prosecution, pre and post-grant opposition, freedom-to-operate, due diligence, patent watch, evolving effective patent strategy, trademark registration and protection, anti-trust, plant variety protection (PVP) and licensing of copyright to name a few.



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Manish Gaur

Venkatramanan Balasubramanian

Shivam Bansal

Payal Bharwani

Nithya S

Dhananjay Sethuraj

Devashish Jain

Astha Sinha

Dinesh Balaji

Shreyash Agrawal

Saurabh Bhise

Manan Chhabra

Kunal Aggarwal

Amrit Kaur Mundra

Shreya Karkare

Nagarajan Venkatraman

Arnab Bhattacharya

Lakshmi Narasimhan

Divya Avasthi

The Associates and Partners team at Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan consists of experienced legal professionals, including Principal Associates, Senior Associates, Associate Partners, and Partners. This team is responsible for providing expert legal advice and representation across various practice areas, including taxation, corporate law, dispute resolution, and intellectual property. They work collaboratively to ensure high-quality, ethical legal services, guiding clients through complex legal landscapes and successfully representing them in significant cases before quasi-judicial authorities, tribunals, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India.

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