Trilegal founder Akshay Jaitly has written a book on the firm that he started along with five others.
Interestingly, the book, called Trilegal - The Making of a Modern Indian Law Firm, discloses how the firm's annual revenue has increased over the years.
Set up in 2000, Trilegal's revenue almost quadrupled between 2020 and 2025. In that same time frame, the size of the partnership tripled.
Here are the revenue numbers:
2001 - Just under ₹2 crore
2020 - ₹400 crore
2025 - Approaching ₹1,600 crore
At some point in 2024, the firm crossed the ₹1,000 crore mark for the first time.
In terms of people, the firm started with six founders and two associates. And now, in 2025, the firm has about 145 equity partners and over 1,000 lawyers.
It is claimed in the book that it is the first time ever an Indian law firm has released performance data.
In the book, Jaitly narrates the journey of Trilegal - from its founding to the initial days and challenges faced to its groundbreaking ownership structure and why it lies at the heart of their success.
It chronicles how a new generation of lawyers came together to establish a modern law firm.
On the firm's growth trajectory, he writes,
"...our past had laid the foundation for a transformation that took place in 2020-2025 that took everyone by surprise, even us. Revenue almost quadrupled, the size of the partnership almost trebled, and the firm may have just become India's largest, by both revenue and number of lawyers...
...Our recent growth has been so dramatic that I struggle to wrap my head around the scale. With it our standing has shifted - we are in every conversation about India's top law firms."
In the book, Jaitly says a sharing model can deliver great success.
"A model based on well designed, merit-based sharing can build an institution. Moreover, people like how it feels to be in a collaborative environment...We've made mistakes and course-corrected repeatedly, but stayed true to a basic conviction: the firm must be bigger than any one of us."
Apart from several internal factors, Jaitly identifies the external factors behind the firm's success. He says,
"...our story is rooted in India's growth and the economic expansion of the post-liberalisation years. But at the same time, we appear to have outpaced our closest competitors more recently - an independent survey suggests that the largest six law firms grew headcount by 83 per cent on average over the past five years - we have trebled in the same period."