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Dear Governments, Your Lawyers Are Not Light Bulbs
To find the best lawyers for a job, governments will need to look beyond just hiring the cheapest, writes Akshay Jaitly.
23 Mar 2021, 08:20 AM IST
In the summer of 2009, some colleagues and I were making a PowerPoint pitch to Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, the then Food and IT Minister of Punjab. He was chairing a panel that included officials from Punjab State Grains Procurement Corporation or PUNGRAIN, the potential client, and the International Finance Corporation, the lead transaction advisor. We were seeking to be appointed as legal counsel to structure and award a 30-year con...
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