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Japanese and Indian lawyers collaborate as trade rises
With Japanese business inquiries into India nearly at double their 2013 level, lawyers in the two countries are collaborating in the expectation of working on future deals.
Mount Fuji
Zia Mody, managing partner of AZB, one of the largest Indian firms, said: ‘Japanese and Indian law firms are exchanging lawyers as secondees to one another to help grow the connections between firms and understand each one's environment better.’
Six months
One lawyer from Amarchand & Mangaldas who has been on secondment in Japan said as many as a dozen lawyers from Japan’s top four practices have been in India in the last six months to study the Indian legal system. Source: Economic Times
