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Mindcrest

Mindcrest Inc. is a legal services provider headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, with operations in India. Mindcrest specializes in litigation support, contracts, compliance, legal research, analytics, and real estate.

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Mindcrest
Company type
Private
IndustryOutsourced legal services
Founded2001
HeadquartersChicago
Area served
Worldwide
Websitewww.mindcrest.com

Mindcrest Inc. is a legal services provider headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, with operations in India.1 Mindcrest specializes in litigation support, contracts, compliance, legal research, analytics, and real estate.2

Mindcrest was the pioneer in offering outsourced legal services from India3 as it was founded in the year 2001.

History

Mindcrest was founded by Ganesh Natarajan, George Hefferan, Teju Deshpande and Rohan Dalal.4 Natarajan was a partner at international law firm McGuireWoods LLP who frequently traveled to India. In 2001, he asked a colleague at the firm Hefferan to launch Mindcrest.5 They asked Dalal, an entrepreneur who was experienced in operations in India and in outsourced services, and Deshpande, an IT and process expert,6 to bring their expertise to the new venture.

In 2006, Mindcrest received $4 million in funding from Talon Asset Management.78 Mindcrest opened its Pune facility in 20079 and moved to an expanded Mumbai facility in 2009. Also, in 2009, Mindcrest launched its real estate group.10

DWF, a UK law firm, acquired Mindcrest in January 2020.11 With this integration, Mindcrest becomes the Managed Services arm of DWF. The new entity will be branded as DWF Mindcrest.12

Corporate affairs

Key people

Members of Mindcrest's board of directors:

  • William E. Wolf4 – COO, Talon Asset Management13
  • Manish Kothari4 – President and co-founder of AlphaSmart, Inc.
  • Walter Freedman4 – previously COO of Wheels, Inc. and previously CEO of Yoplait USA
  • Ganesh Natarajan4 – President and CEO, Mindcrest Inc.
  • George Hefferan4 – Vice President, Sales and General Counsel, Mindcrest Inc.

Alliances

Mindcrest was selected by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) as the legal process outsourcing company in its ACC Alliance program.14

See also

See also

References

References

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  9. "Mindcrest launches new facility in Pune", Business Line, 24 April 2007.
  10. "Mindcrest Launches Global Real Estate Due Diligence Group. Team of Experienced Attorneys to Provide Abstracting and Analysis for Real Estate Transactions Worldwide", PRWEB, June 2009.
  11. "Listed UK law firm DWF acquires Chicago managed legal services business". www.globallegalpost.com. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  12. Mindcrest (2020-01-29). "DWF Acquires Mindcrest". PR Newswire.
  13. https://www.talonmanagement.com/TALON/WEB/me.get?web.websections.show&MS1215_862#WWOLF
  14. "ACC Alliance". acc.com. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2010-05-27.