Advocate Mr Ferdinand Duraimanickam is qualified in India Jurisdiction and enrolled at the Bar Council of India in the year 1999. He regularly represents Domestic and Foreign clients in complex commercial litigation spanning corporate, securities and commercial matters before various fora. Ferdinand has broad experience including trial experience in a wide array of complex civil litigations, spanning over Twenty Five years. He has been involved in numerous high-profile transactions and strategic alliances over the years and has experience in multiple industries, including

• Telecommunication
• Construction
• Consumer products
• Health care
• Manufacturing
• Pharmaceuticals
• Retail and technology
• Real Estate
• Issues pertaining to Testamentary jurisdiction

Advocate Ferdinand’s practice focuses principally on advising companies and their stakeholders with respect to complex business reorganizations, troubled-company M & A, debt restructurings and financing matters, including advising directors and officers on corporate governance, fiduciary duty and strategic matters. Mr. Ferdinand also represents companies and their officers and directors in mergers and acquisitions litigation and contests for corporate control corporations and private equity firms in litigation relating to all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including hostile tender offers, shareholder actions and disputes arising from terminated merger agreements. He also focuses on disputes surrounding corporate governance issues, involving fiduciary duty issues.

Advocate Ferdinand is a standing counsel for various government departments and regularly advises them.

Advocate Ferdinand co – authored article published in the leading editorial “Getting the Deal Through” (Law Business Research Ltd publication and the Official Research Partner of the International Bar Association.) in the field of Real Estate for the year 2008 and also contributed to the “Doing Business” project of the World Bank in the field of Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, for the year 2011.