Two EampY employees start boutique law firm Reina Legal to focus on tax commercial litigation and arbitration

Former Ernst & Young Associate Director Gajendra Maheshwari and Manager Rajat Bose have set up a boutique law firm, Reina Legal. The firm has been operational since December 1, 2012 with a team of 7 lawyers including the two partners. The head office is in Gurgaon with associate offices in Mumbai and Kolkata. 

Former Ernst & Young Associate Director Gajendra Maheshwari and Manager Rajat Bose have set up a boutique law firm, Reina Legal. The firm has been operational since December 1, 2012 with a team of 7 lawyers including the two partners. The head office is in Gurgaon with associate offices in Mumbai and Kolkata.

The main areas of practice will be indirect and direct tax, corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration.

Gajendra has over 15 years of experience in corporate and commercial litigation, tax and arbitration matters. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant and also holds a LLM.  He started his career  in 1997 before moving to Ernst and Young in 2004.

Rajat has over 7 years experience in tax and regulatory matters. He started his career with Zeus Law Associates in 2006 after graduating from ILS Law College, Pune. He worked with Zeus for a year before moving to KPMG where he worked with their indirect tax practice for two years and then joined Ernst & Young in 2009.

Speaking to Bar & Bench on the decision to move away from Big four and set up a law firm, Rajat said, “The main reason for the shift was to bring the service levels of Big four into the legal practice. Working with the Big Four was a great learning experience and you get lot of exposure to multinational clients and you get to understand the business and commercial aspect much better. We wanted to get all that experience and apply that in the law firm where we think we will have an edge over other law firms because we will understand the business aspect and give them legal advice as per their business requirements”.

“We will provide the same quality and service as Big four. Also, we will be providing legal services in addition to consulting”, added Rajat.

The spectrum of clients being handled by the firm currently range from Telecom, FMCG and durables businesses, real estate and infrastructure sector, IT services, aviation, automobiles and other similar sectors.