Thiru & Thiru
India | Dispute Resolution
31, Nandidurg Road,
Jayamahal, Bangalore
560046 Karnataka, India
+91 80 23430204/-05/-06
+91 80 40902045
info@thiruandthiru.com
www.thiruandthiru.com
Firm Profile
About
thiru and thiru is Legal 500 recommended law firm, it was founded in 1983 as Thiru & Co. and renamed in 1992. It is a one-stop solution provider for various legal and contractual solutions with over 50 dynamic lawyers, including partners, associate partners, associates, off–counsels and consultants, the firm functions from multiple locations.
With a collective experience of over 275 years of its partners and associate partners, the firm offers expert advice in various fields of law. Backed by an effective consulting team in science, technology, finance, export, commerce and industry, its motto is to render quality service, with equal focus on promptness, value addition and cost-effectiveness for various legal issues.
thiru & thiru partners with Lexquisite® in providing IP services and supports a first of its kind Finishing School for lawyers in India. It was instrumental in supporting the Bangalore International Mediation, Arbitration and Conciliation Centre (BIMACC), India’s premier non-profit international institutional Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre. The firm has regularly contributed to the public with pro bono litigation and consulting services.
It was involved in the creation of India’s first Venture Capital Fund in 1988, Technology Development and Information Company of India Ltd.; promoted by ICICI& UTI. In 1996, the firm advised Alliance DLJ, one of the first American Private Equity Funds in India; and it was one of the advisers in the Infosys American Depository Receipts issue, 1999. The firm also advised and structured the first private group housing project for Nikhil Constructions and Ranka Colony, with 800 apartments and row houses in 1986; and the first cross border Employee Stock Option Plan for Cisco and in its India subsidiary Andiamo.
thiru & thiru is known for dispute resolution. It successfully handled over 400 cases of oppression and mismanagement before the erstwhile Company Law Board and is currently handling several matters before the National Company Law Tribunal. It has relentlessly espoused the cause of the illegal closure of Bangalore’s HAL Airport and felling of trees in Bangalore’s famous Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain Park. While representing Canara Bank, the Hon’ble Supreme Court in a landmark judgment held in favour of the bank that the subject matter of a prior decree in a suit which is contrary to law will not amount constructive res- judicata, especially when there is a fraud. It also held that an unregistered assignment of Trademark is void and not enforceable in law. (Canara Bank v. Subbarya Setty (2018) 16 SCC 228).
The firm successfully represented Madhu Products in Karnataka High Court where it was held that in a suit of infringement of Trademark, the court should not mechanically issue emergent notice and should consider granting an ex-parte order of temporary injunction. The Anton Piller order was examined. (Madhu Products v. Sundaram Files, (2011, SCC Online Kar 1482).
As a part of its pro-bono work, it represented 1512 families of the economically weaker sections of the society after they were rendered homeless due to the collapse of their apartments built on lease- cum-sale by the Bangalore Corporation. The Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court, headed by Hon’ble Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen, directed that apartments should be reconstructed and handed over to the original allottees.
Having worked closely with some of the top scientists of Indian Space Research Organization, B. C. Thiruvengadam envisioned the need to induct technology into the practice in the early 1980s, which was revolutionary in India at that point of time. He bought an advanced personal computer (Busy Bee) which had no hard disk and ran on a floppy disk drive. As printers were rare in the eighties, he bought an electronic typewriter which did not come with an interface cable and imported an interface cable worth INR 7500. He then installed a Word Star1 word-processor to replace the manual typewriter. Special software was developed for case management in the eighties, which was unheard of in other Indian law firms. In 1988, the firm bought a fax machine but it was seldom used immediately after purchase as other lawyers could not receive faxes. In 1990, the firm purchased a modem card and obtained special permission from Centre for Development of Telematics for the first-ever prototype TCPIP internet connection Shell Account). This was a first for any lawyer or law firm in the country, and it was thus, able to exchange documents in a merger transaction with a New York-based counterpart.
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BANGALORE CHELVARAJAN THIRUVENGADAM
Mr. BANGALORE CHELVARAJAN THIRUVENGADAM, (Thiru) is a lawyer of over 40 years of standing at the bar. Thiru has degrees in Commerce and Law from Bangalore University and an Intermediate Degree in Chartered Accountancy. He is a Patent Agent of the Government of India, a Certified U.S. Patent Process Prosecutor from Sci3 Centre, Sunnyvale, California, and a Certified Mediator by ISDL San Francisco and High Court of Karnataka.
He is a senior partner of “thiru& thiru”, a Legal500 law firm and he is a highly respected lawyer in India. He is Group “A” Counsel of the Government of India, in the Supreme Court. He successfully represents Government of Karnataka and KPTCL in matters before Appellate Tribunal for Electricity Matters, New Delhi. He is known as a specialist in the “Corporate Oppression and Mismanagement” and has expertise in the areas of commercial, intellectual property rights, technology law, energy law, food law and constitutional matters. He has also handled various cases pertaining to white-collar crimes and economic offences.
He is an internationally acclaimed mediator and arbitrator and has resolved several cross-border disputes in the areas of corporate, IPR, fashion and commercial disputes. He was involved in establishing several court-annexed Mediation centres in India – including Bangalore Mediation Centre. He is a Master Trainer and Trainer of Trainers in Mediation and Arbitration and has trained hundreds of lawyers, judges, company secretaries, chartered accountants, engineers and bureaucrats.
He is the co-founder of Bangalore International Mediation, Arbitration and Conciliation Centre (BIMACC) India’s comprehensive Institutional ADR Centre with rules in consonance with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He is an Executive Committee Member of the CII’s Task Force for Dispute Resolution, New Delhi.
As a guest faculty, he teaches Technology Law at the Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He has rendered several lectures and technical papers in various universities and fora in India and abroad. He was the Chairperson of the Bangalore Chapter of the Society of Indian Law Firms, (SILF) and President, of the Corporate and Administrative Law Foundation (CORAL). He is an active member of the International Council of Jurists, London, International Bar Association, London, Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Tokyo, INSOL International, New York and Union of International Advocates Paris.
He has won several global recognitions. He is featured in the prestigious Lexis Nexis “100 Legal Luminaries of India 2016”, Legal500, Chambers & Partners, AsiaLaw Journal and Asian Business Law and Marquis “Who is Who in Asia”. He was conferred with Cambridge University “International Professional Award” in 2010 and has been a recipient of the Asialaw Journal’s Leading Lawyer Award. On 27th April 2017 David A Clarke School of Law, University of District of Columbia has honoured him in recognition of his contribution to the worldwide legal community
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