Taurus Legal merges with Dhruve Liladhar

Taurus Legal merges with Dhruve Liladhar

The firm now has eight partners

Mumbai-based law firms Taurus Legal and Dhruve Liladhar & Co have merged recently.

The partners of Taurus Legal Naresh Chheda, Umang Mehta and Vikrant Shetty have been inducted as partners of Dhruve Liladhar, bringing the total strength of partners at the firm to eight.

Commenting on the merger, the managing partner of Dhruv Liladhar, Chandubhai Mehta said, "Naresh, Umang and Vikrant have all worked in Dhruve Liladhar & Co in the past, and I was glad to see how they set up a firm like Taurus Legal in such a short time. With them and their respective associates joining our firm, we will be expanding our existing litigation, arbitration and insolvency and bankruptcy code practices."

The other partners at the firm are Darshan Mehta, Bhavik Mehta, Trupti Shetty and Rashida Savliwala.

Taurus Legal was established in 2019 and primarily handled litigation and conveyancing matters from their office based in Churchgate, Mumbai.

Chheda is a graduate of Government Law College and a solicitor of the Bombay Incorporated Law Society. He has over 12 years of experience in handling litigation and non-litigation matters relating to real estate, pharma and general corporate laws.

Mehta has an LL.M. from Brunell University in London and has eight years of experience in handling commercial litigation and insolvency and bankruptcy code matters before various forums such as the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT).

Shetty is a 2015 graduate of the Government Law College and specializes in maritime law, arbitration and general commercial litigations.