Maneck Mulla, Ameet Naik and Neil Mandevia launch MNM Partners

Maneck Mulla, Founder and Managing Partner of M Mulla Associates, Ameet Naik, Founder and Managing Partner of Naik Naik & Co, and Neil Mandevia, Founder of Law Scribes, have come together to launch MNM Partners.

MNM Partners is an alliance that brings together expertise in the areas of real estate, infrastructure, dispute resolution, family office advisory, trusts, succession planning and white collar crime.

Mulla began his career with his family firm, Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe, before becoming a Partner at Wakharia & Wakharia Advocates & Solicitors (affiliated with Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York). In 2010, he founded M Mulla Associates, a full-service law firm that regularly advises Fortune 500 companies, high-net-worth individuals and family offices.

Naik, a fourth-generation lawyer, founded Naik Naik & Co. in 2004. A commercial litigator at heart, Ameet is a trusted advisor to India's leading corporates, promoters and marquee names in business. He regularly represents clients in domestic and international courts, on a wide range of high-stakes and complex disputes.

Mandevia has established a specialised boutique practice recognised for its real-estate-centric expertise in high-value conveyancing, development transactions and strategic real estate litigation. His practice advises some of the top real estate developers, businesses including pan-India retail giants and investors across the full lifecycle of complex real estate and infrastructure projects.

Through MNM Partners, they now bring their collective strengths together to create a unique strategic alliance, while continuing to lead their existing firms independently.

MNM Partners is structured as an equal partnership, combining the respective domain expertise of founders with a collaborative approach to deliver integrated legal solutions for corporates, developers, investors, family offices, financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals, both in India and internationally.

In a joint statement, the Founders said,

“At the heart of MNM Partners lies a shared belief that focused individual expertise, when combined with genuine peer collaboration, produces outcomes that no single practice can deliver alone. This is a strategic coming together of three established practices with a forward-looking outlook and the potential to evolve into a larger, multidisciplinary institution in the years ahead.”

Speaking about the uniqueness of this venture, they further added,

“Each of us has spent over two decades building a practice we are proud of. This is not about starting over. It is about combining what we have built, because we believe the mandates our clients bring to us deserve more than one perspective, one practice area, or one set of relationships. For the clients we serve, this alliance means access to decades of trusted expertise – now available as one.”

The formation of MNM Partners was advised on and facilitated by Legal League Consulting through its Founder & Managing Director Bithika Anand and CEO Nipun K Bhatiaa.