Chennai Legal Forum
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Handles cross-border tax cases
DTAA, FBAR/FATCA, US/UK return interplay
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Available across time zones
Picks up calls/emails outside IST business hours
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Comfortable with remote onboarding
Video KYC, e-sign, document collection without an India visit
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FEMA / RBI / repatriation
NRO-NRE, repatriation paperwork, 15CA/15CB
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What reviewers consistently say
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About this firm
Chennai Legal Forum, an advocate firm based in Chennai, provides legal services across a range of areas. Their services include arbitration, banking and finance, and civil litigation. They also handle corporate law matters, tax litigation, family disputes, divorce, and property issues. The firm offers assistance with government service matters, anticipatory bail, interim bail, and cases related to cheque bounce and cheating. Their practice extends to consumer protection, intellectual property rights, labor and employment law, environmental law, and real estate. Chennai Legal Forum also addresses areas such as cyber law, debt recovery, insurance law, medical negligence, and succession and inheritance. They provide services for wills and probate, contract law, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, bankruptcy and insolvency, and customs and excise. Additional areas of focus include human rights law, landlord and tenant disputes, administrative law, admiralty and maritime law, defamation cases, media and entertainment law, education law, public interest litigation (PIL), immigration law, and sports law. The firm's process involves an initial consultation, case evaluation, legal strategy development, and subsequent action and representation. They also offer notarization of legal documents.
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Deepankar Sen
Researcher
Used them for the second year running. Trust structuring and the turnaround is consistent.
Trust structuringClear explanations0 netParthasarathy R.
Tech professional abroad
Mixed experience honestly. Will drafting, but communication was slow during filing season. Final outcome was fine.
Will drafting0 netMitali Mukherjee
NRI in California
They walked me through every form and explained the why, not just the what. Cross-border planning.
Cross-border planning0 netSumitra Bhagat
Healthcare worker abroad
Would use again. They got the job done and Clear explanations. Just wish the portal was a bit more polished.
Clear explanationsTrust structuring0 netSowmya Krishnamurthy
Returned to India, 2023
Decent firm. The senior partner was excellent on Patient with family; the junior staff sometimes needed prompting but nothing major.
Patient with familyProbate guidance0 net
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