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The lawyers at ManAt Legal
Five advocates practise at ManAt Legal. Each profile below sets out that advocate’s education, professional experience, principal areas of work and the courts and tribunals they appear before.
Founder
BN Thimmaiah
BN Thimmaiah founded ManAt Legal and has practised before courts in Karnataka since 1979. His work covers civil matters, institutional advisory work, arbitration and cooperative-society disputes.
He graduated from VV Puram Law College in Bangalore and began practice in 1979. He has acted as retainer advisor to organisations including the KDCD Federation, the South Coorg Club, the Native Club and the Kodagu Cooperative District Central Bank, and has served as an arbitrator for cooperative societies in Kodagu. He has held the offices of President and Secretary of the Bar Association of Virajpet.
The team
Advocates at the firm
Four advocates practise alongside the founder. Each profile sets out that advocate’s education, professional experience, principal areas of work and the courts and tribunals they appear before.
Which advocate handles a matter depends on its subject and on the forum in which it will be heard, and is confirmed when the appointment is arranged.
Manu Shankar
Commercial disputes, arbitration and insolvency litigation before the High Court of Karnataka, the NCLT and the Debt Recovery Tribunal.
Aiyappa B.T.
Civil and criminal disputes, real-estate matters and industrial disputes, with experience in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Ann Finiya Pereira
Dispute resolution across commercial, contractual, insolvency, property and shareholder matters, spanning litigation and pre-litigation strategy.
Chandrashekar
Civil and criminal practice with day-to-day experience of police-station matters, FIRs, anticipatory bail and the investigation stage.
Allocation
Which advocate will handle a matter
That depends on the subject of the matter and the forum in which it will be heard. Each practice area page lists the advocates who work in that area, and the allocation is confirmed when the appointment is arranged.
At the Virajpet office, advocate availability should be confirmed when requesting an appointment.
Property Law
Criminal Law
Divorce & Family
Corporate & Commercial
Arbitration
Insolvency & NCLT
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