Best Law Firms for Project development – Infrastructure Internship in 2024

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What is Project development – Infrastructure law practice?

This is an extraordinarily wide practice area, which covers various focused practice areas such as Energy, Oil and gas, Power, Telecommunications, Roads, Rail, Ports, Airports, Urban infrastructure and Transport.

In addition, there is also an increasing number of industrial corridors, smart-city and sector specific industrial zone projects that are being developed across India, which provides immense opportunities for law firms.

Law Firms with a Project development – Infrastructure law practice tend to be large and multi-locational. They often have large teams of lawyers who are drawn from various practice areas and sectors – who form dedicated project groups as required for specific projects.

The law firms are required to work with the clients across the entire life-cycle of the project, such as:

• conceptualisation,
• risk analysis and allocation strategy
• tenders and bid processes management
• project development,
• Due Diligence for transactional, financial, environmental, tax and compliance related aspects
• Joint Venture, Share Subscription and Shareholders Agreements
• engineering, procurement and construction contracts
• normal operations and maintenance related contracts
• dispute management and resolution
• tax planning, structuring and compliance
• repatriation of profits and exits

 

Considering the large and complex nature of the projects; the firm also need to work on public policy and regulation related areas.

The clients in this practice area include foreign, private and institutional investors, domestic and international banks and financial institutions, project developers, owners and contractors, government bodies and other stakeholders.

The firm’s lawyers need to have an expert-level knowledge of project specific regulations, investment laws, company law, indirect taxes, developmental regulations, environmental regulations, labour, corporate, exchange control and other commercial laws.

Best Law Firms for Project development – Infrastructure Practice Internship in 2024 for LLB Students

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

• Advaita Legal – New Delhi, Mumbai
• AZB & Partners – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurugram, New Delhi, Pune
• Bharucha & Partners – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi
• Brus Chambers, Advocates & Solicitors – Mumbai, New Delhi
• Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi
• Desai & Diwanji – Mumbai, Gurugram, New Delhi
• Dhaval Vussonji & Associates – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi
• Dhir & Dhir Associates – New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad
• DSK Legal – Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune
• Economic Laws Practice – Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai
• Fox Mandal & Associates – Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad
• Gagrats – Mumbai, New Delhi
• Halder & Associates – New Delhi
• HSA Advocates – New Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai
• IndusLaw – Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai
• J Sagar Associates (JSA) – Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi
• Juris Corp – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi
• Kachwaha & Partners – New Delhi, Mumbai
• Khaitan & Co – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, New Delhi, Noida
• Kochhar & Co – Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad
• Krishnamurthy & Co – K Law – New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai
• L&L Partners (formerly Luthra & Luthra Law Offices) – New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad
• Legacy Law Offices – New Delhi, Chandigarh, Solan, Kurukshetra, Mumbai
• Lexygen Legal Consulting – Bengaluru
• Link Legal India Law Services – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad
• Majmudar & Partners – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New York
• Phoenix Legal – New Delhi, Mumbai
• Rajani Associates – Mumbai
• Samvad Partners – Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi
• Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai
• Singh & Associates – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru
• Singhania & Partners – New Delhi, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad
• Talwar Thakore & Associates – TT&A – Mumbai, New Delhi
• Touchstone Partners (Formerly Platinum Partners) – Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi
• Trilegal – Bengaluru, New Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai
• Vaish Associates – New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru

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