HYDERABAD: Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao wrote a letter to the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman raising serious objections against the budget proposal of establishing the Data Embassies in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT city), Gujarat. Making a logical case, the minister detailed the huge risks involved in
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Desai & Diwanji Mumbai partner Ketaki Gor Mehta as a partner in its new office in the Gandhinagar-based office in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), which it had announced in early May 2021 (alongside IC Universal Legal also opening in the city).
Law firms are getting interested in the gifts of the GIFT (photo via GIFT)
IC Universal Legal last week opened an office in the
Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), with
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, hot-on-its-heels, announcing today that it had also done so.
The two law firms’ moves follow a new February 2021 regulatory regime in the GIFT special economic zone (SEZ) announced last month. J Sagar Associates (JSA) after having been first to open in the GIFT in 2017, had not renewed its licence during the pandemic.
IC Universal wrote in a statement last week: “The firm has opened its branch office in GIFT IFSC and has become the first law firm to receive the regulatory authorisation from International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) to provide legal, regulatory and compliance services from IFSCs.”