• Company name: Withy King Solicitors
• Name: Bhavesh Patel
• Job title: Solicitor
After Brexit, there is an exceptional opportunity for the INDO-UK relationship to grow and develop, especially within the legal sector. India is an attractive destination with one of the fastest growing economies in the world. With an ever growing population already surpassing a billion, there is significant scope to expand your portfolio and enter a rapidly growing market and client base. The liberalisation of the Indian legal market has been discussed for a number of years, but after Brexit, it seems it is now only a matter of time before UK lawyers will be able to practice in India. This will not only create international practice opportunities, but also boost local opportunities for legal professionals in India, as well as increasing the global footprint into an economy with significant growth potential for legal firms. The UK’s legal sector is an example, of how access to international legal advice, for businesses can strengthen links between the countries, further providing expansion opportunities for businesses. If India follows this path, it will inevitably lead to the development of a positive relationship with the UK as well as creating economic opportunities of mergers and acquisitions between the two countries.
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• Company name: Aardra System
• Name: Meena Joisi
• Job title: Founder, CEO
Aardra Systems Ltd launched the water management product early this year and to its astonishment, Indian customers showed lots of interests in the product that compelled us to raise our priority in approaching the whole India as a country.
From the Indian government’s point of view, the project has been very welcomed in all quarters and states added with some lacking issues
· Clarity of government policy of subsidising agriculture and horticulture water related equipment is not as expected.
· Bureaucratic and business culture practiced in India tends to exhaust the intended investors from investment.
None the less, the project on the other hand has been well received by end users and local agriculture/horticulture communities from a surveyed point of view.
Aardra Systems principle are to benefit the agriculture/horticulture communities on two accounts
A) Financially, that would be that agriculturist/ horticulturist will have the product subsidised.
B) Economically with the water management product they will able to disperse water in their farms adequately and would be practising water conserving exercise.
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• Company name: Vedanta Hedging
• Name: Abhishek Sachdev
• Job title: CEO
We are delighted that commercial trading relationships between India and the UK continue to strengthen; the UK is already the largest G20 investor into India. There is a lot of room to grow this important historical relationship, and in particular for British SMEs to have the confidence to export to the huge Indian domestic market. We are increasingly advising a number of British companies on how to do this (with respect to hedging the currency risk of GBP-INR). Indian investment into the UK continues to be strong, but still remains dominated by property investment which again, we help to advise on, to ensure that the Indian investors achieve the net returns they expect during the life of their investment.
