ATI Avocats, the global leader in legal process outsourcing to corporate in-house counsel and foreign law firms announced its merger with ‘LEX Outsourcing’ another leader in LPO from January 16, 2008.

Outsourcing one of key ‘ingredient’ in formulating overall corporate strategy for many American companies to succeed in today’s emerging and highly competitive global marketplace. It is now being considered as one of “must-do” management practices for companies to excel globally. For many companies, it has strengthened their competitive position, predominantly true for companies competing via offering low cost for their products and services. Outsourcing is also defined as delegation of one or more (non-core) business processes to an external supplier, who in turn owns, administers and manages those processes based upon predefined and measurable performance metrics. It is a business decision that is often made to focus on core competences.

Huge cost savings is one of the many motivating factors for a company to consider outsourcing. With prudent use of outsourcing, companies boost their profits by exploiting the wage differential (often termed as ‘labor arbitrage’) that exists between their domestic market and the offshore country considered for outsourcing. The savings derived can be as high as 60%-85%, net of outsourcing overheads. In addition to this, it also strengthens a company’s position to focus on its core business functions. This is because it frees up company’s resources (esp. time and money) from performing non-core activities. These freed resources can be used more productively and efficiently in managing core business operations.

‘ATI Avocats’ is a division of a specialised law firm LEX Nexus while ‘LEX Outsourcing’ is a division of Hathi & Partners, a Mumbai based law firm hence expanding its team and business for better and low cost service, the only Solicitor firm in the country having its division for outsourcing work.

Suhail Farooqui will take lead as Managing Partner of LEX Outsourcing, will oversee client care and business development. LEX Outsorcing provide wide spectrum of services including Legal research, contract drafting, litigation support services, business formation, corporate law, intellectual property also providing services with regards to non-legal including legal data entry, transcription, legal billing.

LEX Outsourcing web location is at www.lexoutsourcing.com

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HATHI & PARTNERS, is a partnership firm organised and registered in Mumbai, under the Indian Partnership Act. The firm is also registered with the Bombay High Court as Advocates & Solicitors and with the Bombay Incorporated Law Society as Solicitors. All partners are registered on the rolls of their respective Bar Councils to practice law while some partners are advocates on record on the rolls of the Supreme Court of India. HATHI & PARTNERS is also registered with the Income Tax department having its Pan and Tan number. HATHI & PARTNERS is an independent, full service law firm established under the laws of India accepting work from all overseas law firms, corporates, government bodies etc and all those seeking assistance from our law firm. Our aim is to provide consistently high quality advice understanding of the commercial environment in which our clients operate. We offer in-depth local knowledge and a uniquely global perspective.

The firm is structured around nine practice areas:

• Admiralty, Maritime & Shipping
• Corporate, Commercial & Contracts
• Arbitration & Litigation (Dispute Resolution)
• Projects (Oil & Gas; Infrastructure; Mining; Energy; Telecommunication)
• Entertainment, Media & Information Technology
• Banking, Finance & Capital Markets

Each area comprises industry-focused teams dedicated to delivering incisive advice.

The Asia Pacific Legal 500 has consistently ranked Shrikant Hathi as a 'Leading Individual' for shippingmatters in India. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 has recommended our law firm for Shipping, Dispute Resolution; Projects and energy.