Khodadad K Moradian, Ex-Managing Director Of Alstom

I am writing this in my capacity as a semi-retired professional who was Managing Director of Alstom in India (7400 employees, US $ 1.5 billion operation in India; US $ 27 billion worldwide), Managing Director & Chairman of Roquette in India (US $ 300 m in India; US $ 3.5 billion worldwide) and senior executive of Parsons (US $ 2 billion) in the USA. Currently I am an interim Managing Director of Hoya (US $ 4 billion worldwide) in India. Obviously I have been privy to work with several law and accounting firms for the services in litigation, M&A, JV, etc. I have also used the services of Anant Merathia and associates.

What I found is that Anant Merathia and Associates are very different than most of the other law firms I have used. They listened carefully to the case I was presenting, explained to me the different options I had, and recommended the optimum solution with logical and honest explanation. While winning a case is always what everyone wants, AMA took pains to explain carefully the time lines and the costs involved in coming to a conclusion. The research they did and the factual data they gathered in a short span, I found that they did not leave anything on assumption. What surprised me is that invariably the solution they would recommend, involved less fees for them, but it did not matter. For them the clients welfare came first. They have thus developed tremendous good will and respect from my associates in general and me in particular. We need more law firms like Anant Merathia. I wish them best of Good Luck in future.