The MNM Partners alliance launch marks one of the more significant collaborative moves in India’s legal market, bringing together three founding practitioners under a shared platform. Maneck Mulla, Ameet Naik, and Neil Mandevia have jointly established MNM Partners, an equal strategic alliance combining their independent firms. The alliance spans real estate, infrastructure, dispute resolution, family office advisory, trusts, succession planning, and white collar crime.
Each founder will continue to lead his existing firm independently — M Mulla Associates, Naik Naik & Co., and Law Scribes — while operating collaboratively through the new structure. MNM Partners is designed to serve corporates, developers, investors, family offices, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals in India and internationally. The alliance is structured as an equal partnership built on shared domain expertise and a collaborative delivery model.
Education Background and Career Progression
Education
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Career Journey
Maneck Mulla began his career at his family firm, Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe, before moving to Wakharia & Wakharia Advocates & Solicitors, which was affiliated with Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, where he served as a Partner. In 2010, he founded M Mulla Associates, a full-service firm that regularly advises Fortune 500 companies, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices.
Ameet Naik is a fourth-generation lawyer who founded Naik Naik & Co. in 2004. A commercial litigator, he advises India’s leading corporates, promoters, and prominent business figures, regularly representing clients in domestic and international courts across complex, high-stakes disputes.
Neil Mandevia founded Law Scribes, building a specialised boutique practice recognised for real-estate-centric expertise in high-value conveyancing, development transactions, and strategic real estate litigation. His practice advises top real estate developers, pan-India retail giants, and investors across the full lifecycle of complex real estate and infrastructure projects.
What the Firm Said
In a joint statement, the founders said: “At the heart of MNM Partners lies a shared belief that focused individual expertise, when combined with genuine peer collaboration, produces outcomes that no single practice can deliver alone. This is a strategic coming together of three established practices with a forward-looking outlook and the potential to evolve into a larger, multidisciplinary institution in the years ahead.”
They added: “Each of us has spent over two decades building a practice we are proud of. This is not about starting over. It is about combining what we have built, because we believe the mandates our clients bring to us deserve more than one perspective, one practice area, or one set of relationships. For the clients we serve, this alliance means access to decades of trusted expertise – now available as one.”
Strategic Significance
MNM Partners consolidates deep sectoral strength across real estate transactional work, high-stakes commercial litigation, and sophisticated advisory mandates for family offices and corporates — capabilities that are difficult to assemble under a single roof. The alliance model allows each founder to retain independence while offering clients an integrated, multi-disciplinary platform, positioning MNM Partners as a notable force in India’s premium legal services segment.
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