Arvind Datar joins Fountain Court as a door tenant

Arvind Datar joins Fountain Court as a door tenant

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Senior advocate Arvind Datar is the latest Indian lawyer to get called to the Fountain Court Chambers in the United Kingdom (UK).

Prior to him, senior advocates Zal Andhyarujina and Gaurav Pachnanda had also bagged the honor of joining as door tenants.

(A door tenant is a barrister who has been granted permission to join a set of chambers and work with them from premises outside the chambers).

On joining the chambers, Datar said in a press release, "It is indeed an honor to be invited to be a door tenant at Fountain Court Chambers. With the increasing litigation arising out of cross-border transactions, I am looking forward to working with Bankim Thanki QC and his colleagues in London and Singapore."

After graduating from the Madras Law College, Datar had enrolled at the Bar in 1980. An expert in the fields of constitutional and taxation laws and arbitration, he was designated as a senior advocate of the Madras High Court in 2000.

Among the other lawyers to have been called by the chambers in the UK over the past few years are senior advocate Arvind Nayar, who was called to 4 New Square and Sherbir Panag, who joined the White Collar Crime setup Foundry Chambers. Sudhir Mishra, the founder and managing partner of Trust Legal, was called to No. 5 Barristers Chambers in 2020.

In 2019, senior advocate Ritin Rai accepted the offer to join 7 King's Bench Walk Barristers. The same year, former AZB and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partner Percival Billimoria, who was recently designated as a senior advocate by the Delhi High Court, had joined the Outer Temple Chambers.

In 2018, while Swathi Sukumar was called as a door tenant at the Hogarth Chambers, Abhimanyu Bhandari was invited to join 4 Pump Court as an associate member.

In 2016, Pulkit Deora was called to the Enterprise Chambers. In 2014, while Nakul Dewan was invited to join 20 Essex Street, additional solicitor-general and senior advocate Gourab Banerji joined the Essex Court Chambers.

In 2012, Vishavjeet Chaudhary, former assistant professor at the Jindal Global Law School, was invited to join the Lamb Building. In addition, the former solicitor-general Gopal Subramanium is a member of the 3 Verulam Building, while the leading senior counsel Harish Salve is a member of the Blackstone Chambers.