About Us

THE FIRM

Providing quick relief and dedication to the success of its clients is the basis for Surana & Surana's continuous ranking as a top-tier Indian law firm. This firm is recommended as a 'first choice' for legal assistance in South India.

Surana & Surana is much sought after for its expertise, responsiveness, commercial sense, quick turnaround, personal attention, client satisfaction, multi-disciplinary inputs and practical cost effective solutions.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Surana & Surana is known for facilitating landmark (foreign and domestic) investments in the automobile, engineering, infrastructure and information technology sectors in South India and more particularly in Tamil Nadu. Clients include Fortune 100 MNCs, leading Indian corporations, trusts, individuals and start-up enterprises. The firm's scope of practice includes: contract (strategies, negotiations and drafting); corporate (banking and finance, commercial, cross border, mergers and acquisition, securities, turnaround strategies, corporate compliance); dispute prevention and resolution (arbitration, litigation and mediation); human resources and industrial relation (compliance, conflict resolution and wage settlement and negotiations); infrastructure and real estate (due diligence, negotiations, strategy and structuring); tax (direct and indirect tax); technology (information technology, bio-technology and intellectual properties).

Awards / Accreditations/ Recognitions

Legal Era Awards, 2013 - Best Law firm of the Year (Chennai); 7th National Innovation Awards 2013-Partnership Award ; International Financial Law Review's 2010, 2011 & 2012 "Law firm of the year" award ; Acquisition International Legal Awards "Negotiator of the year " 2012 ; Ranked among the top law firms in India by Chambers Asia, Asia Pacific Legal 500 etc; International Star Award for Quality Management at the B.I.D convention in Paris ; SA 8000 Social Accountability, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance & ISO 14001 Environmental Protection. The only professional firm in the world that simultaneously holds all three certifications ; CEO Dr. Vinod Surana elected in 1999 as the first non-American President of ILSA (International Law Students Association) ; A case study on the firm has been published in the best selling book "Developing A Profitable Practice In Asia" An uncommon Law firm -Principles before Practice by Robert Sawhney, Hong Kong, who was commissioned by Ark Publishers, London

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Surana and Surana have distinguished themselves among the international community of lawyers by their widespread corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities (Robert Sawhney, 2010) & pro bono activities. Surana and Surana supports and helps uplift underprivileged people by providing scholarships for students, free medical diagnosis, medicines, nutritious food and drinking water, rescuing destitute animals, a hostel facility for visually challenged orphan girls and many more (Legal Era, 2012).

PRO BONO WORK

The firm provides free legal advice & support to charitable organisations. The firm collaborates with several Professional educational institutions in India & overseas for the promotion of academic excellence and research. Its members regularly teach at various law and business schools, judicial and police academies.