The Indian End of a UAE Jurisdiction Clause
Watch in 1 minute video here A UAE lender holds a personal guarantee from an Indian promoter. The facility is governed by English law. The dispute resolution clause is asymmetric — the structure standard in cross-border financing for thirty years. Enforcement day arrives, the borrower’s UAE assets are encumbered, and what remains is a promoter […]
Most Market Events Contain No Mandate
Watch in 1 minute video here A story breaks about a governance failure at a large listed company, a regulator’s finding, and litigation commencing somewhere unexpected. A law firm partner reads it over coffee with a half-formed thought about whether there is anything in it for the firm. The usual honest answer is no, and […]
When Domestic Probes Become Foreign Liabilities: The Unassigned Mandate
Watch in 1 minute video here In late May 2026, an Indian newspaper reported an internal regulatory issue at a major domestic financial institution. By late August, a shareholder class action had been filed in the Southern District of New York, accompanied by class-solicitation notices from over a dozen US plaintiff firms. The 90-day transition […]
What Activates a Restructuring Relationship for Law Firms
Watch in 1 minute video Anyone who has spent time around a restructuring practice knows how the mandates actually arrive, and it is not through anything a marketing function would recognise. They arrive because a workout officer at a bank’s stressed assets desk has known a particular partner for six years. Because a financial advisor […]
Being Right Slowly
Watch in 1 minute video here Most commentary published after a sanctions action is written from inside a practice group, looking at the instrument. This piece is written from a market analyst’s lens. We answer questions about where the legal work is. While law firms race to publish alerts on the latest US sanctions tranche, […]
Why a Law Firm’s Materials Fall Behind Its Practice
Watch in 1 minute video here A newsletter I have some responsibility for went out this morning, on time and with nothing wrong in it, and I spent longer than I expected looking at the template. It was designed about two years ago, properly and to a law firm’s brief, and at the time it […]
Before the Pitch: How Shortlists Form and Law Firms Misdiagnose Their Losses
Watch in 1 minute video here Most law firms have a reasonably clear picture of the mandates they pitched for and lost. Very few have any picture at all of the mandates they were never considered for which, for most firms, is by a wide margin the larger number. This is worth more attention than […]
The India Practice That Is Facing the Wrong Direction: Reconfiguring Spain
Watch in 1 minute video here. This blog was first published in the Daily Jus which is a publication by Jus Mundi. THE AUTHOR: Prachi Shrivastava, Founding Advisor at Lawfinity Solutions The EU-India Free Trade Agreement was concluded five months ago at Hyderabad House, New Delhi. For Spain’s leading independent law firms, the announcement came […]
Client AI-Use Ready Reckoner
A Lawfinity Friday resource for cross-border counsel Watch in 1 minute video here A recurring theme in our conversations with law firm clients this year has been frustration – not with AI itself, but with what clients do with it mid-matter. Lawyers describe clients arriving with AI-drafted question lists nobody understands, AI-generated summaries substituting for […]
No Material Impact, Until It Is: What India’s Disclosure Doctrine Means for Cross-Border Creditors
Watch in 1 minute video here When a listed company tells its exchanges that a regulatory action will have no impact on its financial stability or debt-servicing ability, that statement is tested against exactly one thing at the moment it is made: the facts then available to the board. It is tested against something else […]