Best Law Firms for Capital Markets – Debt & Equity Internship in 2024

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What is Capital Markets – Debt and Equity law practice?

Companies routinely raise capital in the form of Debt or Equity from the Indian and international capital markets. Law firms provide advisory and services for issuance and listing of debt, equity and equity linked instruments.

The clients may be issuer companies, underwriters, investment banks, investors, and trustees. Services include advising clients on issues related to making an offering in the domestic and international markets, drafting the requisite documents for:

• Initial public offering (IPO),
• American Depository Receipts (ADR),
• Global Depository Receipts (GDR),
• Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB),
• Euro bonds and notes,
• Warrants, rights issues.

 

Law firms are also required to conduct legal due diligence exercise in the context of the disclosure to be made by the issuer in the Red Herring Prospectus, Information Memorandum, Listing Circular and registration statement, qualified institutions placements (QIPs) and institutional placement programmes (IPPs), infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), rights issues, offers for sale (OFS) through stock exchanges, block deals, bonus issues and buybacks.

In case of high value transactions, the law firms may also require liaising with statutory bodies such as the securities market regulator – SEBI, the RBI, the CCI, the MCA and the Ministry of Finance. The law firms also have to work with market intermediaries such as investment banks, foreign portfolio investors, alternative investment funds, mutual funds, foreign venture capital investors, brokers, portfolio managers, registrar and transfer agents and depositories.

Best Law Firms for Capital Markets – Debt and Equity Practice Internship in 2024 for LLB Students

This list of best law firms is sorted in alphabetical order.

• Agama Law Associates – Mumbai
• ALMT Legal – Bengaluru, Mumbai
• AZB & Partners – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurugram, New Delhi, Pune
• Bharucha & Partners – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi
• Chandhiok & Mahajan – New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai
• Crawford Bayley & Co – Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru
• Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi
• Desai & Diwanji – Mumbai, Gurugram, New Delhi
• Dhir & Dhir Associates – New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad
• DMD Advocates – Mumbai, New Delhi
• DSK Legal – Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune
• Dua Associates – New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune
• Economic Laws Practice – Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai
• Ezy Laws – Mumbai, Lucknow, New Delhi
• Fox Mandal & Associates – Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad
• Gagrats – Mumbai, New Delhi
• HSA Advocates – New Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai
• HSB Partners – Chennai
• IC Universal Legal – Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi
• Ikigai Law – New Delhi, Bengaluru
• India Law Offices – New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Goa, Ahmedabad, Pune, Noida, Gurugram
• IndusLaw – Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai
• Intelia Law Offices – New Delhi
• J Sagar Associates (JSA) – Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi
• Jerome Merchant + Partners – Mumbai, Singapore
• Juris Corp – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi
• Kanga & Company – Mumbai
• Khaitan & Co – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, New Delhi, Noida
• Kochhar & Co – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad
• L&L Partners (formerly Luthra & Luthra Law Offices) – New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad
• Lex Favios – New Delhi, Mumbai
• Link Legal India Law Services – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad
• Little & Co – Mumbai, New Delhi
• Majmudar & Partners – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New York
• Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi
• Nishith Desai Associates – Mumbai
• Phoenix Legal – New Delhi, Mumbai
• PSA Legal Counsellors – New Delhi, Chennai
• Rajani Associates – Mumbai
• S&R Associates – New Delhi, Mumbai
• Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai
• Sim & San – Faridabad
• Singhania & Partners – New Delhi, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad
• SNG & Partners – Mumbai, New Delhi
• Talwar Thakore & Associates – TT&A – Mumbai, New Delhi
• Tatva Legal – Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Vijayawada
• Trilegal – Bengaluru, New Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai
• Wadhwa Law Offices – Gurugram, Bengaluru
• ZBA – Mumbai

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