Bankim Mehta,Founder, Bankim Mehta & Associates

The ever-evolving landscape of the finance services sector necessitates businesses and financial institutions to seek legal consulting solutions to navigate the labyrinth of regulatory complexities. The demand is being fueled by increasing compliance intricacies aimed at enhancing transparency, stability, and consumer protection, rapid globalization, and a myriad of varying regulatory frameworks dictating business transactions. Moreover, the boom of fintech and digital banking solutions, complex legal and regulatory risks, along with restructuring activities arising from M&A’s, IPO Processes, and Corporate Governance drive the demand for legal consulting solutions.

Legal professionals help businesses traverse through these complexities to encourage business profitability. As businesses prioritize risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and legal protection, the demand for these professionals is expected to continue rising. Within this realm, Bankim Mehta & Associates, a Mumbai-based legal solutions firm, stands out as a beacon of hope for businesses, adopting a client-centric approach to delivering specialized services. The firm adopts a tailored format in service delivery to suit particular client needs, especially with IP strategy development, among other domains.

“Our mission is to provide exceptional legal representation with a focus on integrity, innovation, and client satisfaction. As such, we have built a team of highly skilled attorneys who specialize in various areas of law, ensuring that our clients receive top-notch legal advice and representation. Our USP lies in our focus on client-centricity, established record of excellence, proactive client engagement practices, integrity, and ethics, ensuring transparency and honesty in every interaction. Furthermore, our innovative approach focused on leveraging cutting-edge technology and creative strategies to deliver optimal outcomes set us apart from competitors”, shares Bankim Mehta, Founder, Bankim Mehta & Associates.

Expert Legal Solutions

Established to deliver expert legal solutions targeted towards the financial sector, Bankim Mehta & Associates has a dynamic team that specializes in corporate and securities law, financial law, succession law, IPR, and real estate, to name a few. Across these domains, the company offers a diverse range of services. These include business setup solutions within India and overseas, drafting solutions for commercial contracts, and mergers and acquisitions documentation and negotiation. Additionally, services for IPOs, corporate advisory, statutory and regulatory compliance, foreign exchange law advisory, international and domestic arbitration, dispute management, and contract management are also offered by the firm.

Throughout its solutions, the firm focuses on the quality of the services it delivers along with efficiency and cost-effectiveness. With a rich experience of over two decades, the firm has garnered expertise in both legal and business aspects of its solutions, ensuring clients gain complete value for their time and resources. Furthermore, to ensure that clients receive optimal solutions, the firm strongly focuses on finding the right talent and investing in training and development programs. Through these programs, the team members are upskilled. While at the same time, cross-training initiatives are carried out in ensuring the lawyers get ample opportunities to develop their skills across multiple areas of practice, gaining flexibility and experience.

Journey & Future

The firm was established by Bankim Mehta in 2010 with a vision to chart an entrepreneurial journey for himself leveraging his legal education and industry experience working for financial organizations in senior management positions. These experiences, donning multiple hats in these roles, handling the secretarial and compliance and legal tasks equipped him with the necessary knowledge and expertise. Laying the foundation of his firm, he set out to fulfill his vision of providing top-grade comprehensive legal services across diverse areas of law.

Since then, the company has evolved significantly, with a growing and vibrant team of expert and seasoned legal professionals leveraging all kinds of advancements including technological developments to meet and exceed client expectations. With its growing clientele, the firm has ensured to diversify its practice areas and develop specialized expertise in particular niche domains to serve each client as best possible.

Delving into technology law, securities law, financial law, and international trade law has proved fruitful endeavors for the firm in this regard. Advancing with the times, the company has maintained an agile approach to harnessing the advantages of advancing tools for efficient and accurate legal research, case management, and client communications to ensure its solutions are at par with evolving client demands. With a strong and thriving ecosystem established to fuel its future growth, the company is developing a driven future roadmap to fulfill its overarching goals.

“We are an aspiring firm and one of the fastest growing firms – sustained growth based on strong client relationships and punch significantly above its weight in terms of our professional capability. We focus on providing commercially sound and pragmatic legal advice while cutting out legal 'noise' as well as ensuring regulatory and statutory compliance. Our goal is to be the firm of choice for clients with regards to all their legal needs irrespective of the nature, complexities or dimensions of the matter”, further shares Bankim.

With this goal in mind, Bankim Mehta & Associates is eager to further expand its team and range of offerings in the coming years, and potentially extend its services in international jurisdictions as well. With immense client trust and a proven record of excellence, the firm is poised to achieve its goals and more.