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Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is a leading Indian law firm with over 170 employees and six offices in India. It is a partnership firm founded in 1985. Beginning with Taxation laws, the firm now practices in International trade laws, Intellectual Property Rights and Corporate laws.

Profile
The firm has been consistently ranked in the first and second tier for practice areas of Taxation and International trade laws respectively. Its founder, Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran is a leading advocate in Intellectual Property Laws, Taxation/Fiscal Laws and WTO related issues and argues mostly before the Supreme Court of India.

Cases
The firm has handled a number of high profiled cases in various practice areas. A number of important matters handled by the firm before the Supreme Court of India can be identified as follows;

In addition to these, the firm has represented over 200 clients from India, US, EU, China, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea in over 95 anti-dumping investigations initiated by India, the EU, US, China, Korea, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey, etc.

Practice Areas
The firm practices in the following legal areas;
 * Tax Laws
 * International trade laws
 * Intellectual Property Rights
 * Arbitration
 * General Litigation

Offices
The firm has its offices at the following places;
 * New Delhi
 * Mumbai
 * Bangalore
 * Ahmadabad
 * Chennai
 * Hyderabad

Membership
The firm is a member of the following international organizations;
 * International Bar Association
 * International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
 * Asian Patent Attorney Association
 * Licensing Executives Society International
 * International Chamber of Commerce delegate to World Customs Organisation

The firm is also a member of the following Indian organizations;
 * Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF)