Sdd Global Adds London, Bangalore Offices, Expands Capabilities to Transactions, Patents

BANGALORE, May 8, 2008—SDD GlobalPatricia Holland, veteran New York trial attorney
Solutions, the leader in high-end legal servicesKwarma Vanderpuye, U.S. immigration law specialist
outsourcing to India, has expanded from Mysore andPriya Kumar, and others.
New York into London and Bangalore. Already theSays Frank Dehn, a Harvard Law School graduate
“go-to” legal provider for Fortune 100and managing attorney of SmithDehn’s New
media, entertainment and other companies inYork office: “Every modern U.S. law firm is now
Hollywood and elsewhere in the United States, SDDstruggling to figure out its ‘India Strategy.’
Global has added not only new offices, but also newWe're the only Western law firm that not only has one,
service capabilities, including transactional work andbut already has been implementing it on the
patent services.ground.”
London Office OpenedAnother SmithDehn founder, Columbia Law School
Alex Hannell, one of the world’s leadinggraduate Russell Smith, who spends most of his time
specialists in international media, intellectual propertyin Mysore, managing SDD Global Solutions, says:
and entertainment transactions, heads SDD“With its new offices, new practice areas, and
Global’s new London office, and its new servicenew parent law firm, SDD Global is poised to achieve
division, The Business and Legal Affairs Group. Ledits dream. We want to revolutionize the way legal
and trained by Hannell, with outstanding attorneysservices are delivered to companies and individuals all
working in Mysore, this new department handles theover the world.”
transactions and commercial legal affairs of film andMore About SDD Global
television companies, and it can do the same for allSDD Global Solutions, the only legal services provider in
other kinds of companies, which (a) are no longerIndia managed by a U.S. law firm, offers high-quality
willing to tolerate the usual outside counsel rates in thelegal research, analysis and drafting at a fraction of the
West, and/or (b) want another alternative to hiringtraditional cost. Headquartered in the city of Mysore,
in-house lawyers.India, two hours from Bangalore, and with other offices
Before joining SDD Global, Mr. Hannell served as Headin New York, London, and Bangalore, the company
of Commercial Affairs for Granada International, themaintains quality and security controls that meet or
worldwide arm of what is now the U.K.’sexceed those of top-tier law firms in the West. In
largest commercial television company, ITV. He is alsoorder to maintain the highest standards, SDD Global
a veteran of the pre-eminent London-based law firm,hires only one out of every 900 job applicants, from a
Herbert Smith LLP. From 2002 until 2008, Hannellgrowing talent pool that includes 80,000
developed his own roster of film and television clients,English-speaking law graduates in India entering the
including a “who’s who” list of suchmarket each year. Due to the dramatically low cost of
companies as Warner Brothers and countless others.living and doing business in Mysore, where SDD Global
Bangalore Patent Office Addedhas its own state-of-the-art office building, the
Simultaneously, SDD Global has opened a patent legalcompany can significantly reduce costs for its
services operation in Bangalore, led by IP experts withcorporate and law firm clients.
an extensive track record in the field. SDDAs noted in a press release from Columbia Law
Global’s multidisciplinary team of patent agents,School (“Is the Future of U.S. Law in
scientists, and patent attorneys provides in-depthIndia?”), SDD Global Solutions is actively dispelling
experience, combined with up-to-date technicalthe stereotype linked to outsourcing, by (a) hiring
knowledge. The team handles IP portfolio creation andlawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom
management, prior art searches, patentability consulting,to further improve its quality control, supervision and
infringement analysis, patent drafting and prosecution,onshore presence, and (b) providing more legal
valuation and licensing, and a host of other IP services.services opportunities for U.S. law firm clients, since the
New Parent Law Firm, SmithDehn LLPlower costs of those services create a demand for
In other news, SDD Global Solutions is now managedlegal work that in many cases would not have
by SmithDehn LLP, the New York and London-basedotherwise existed.
international law firm created by the intellectualSDD Global is on the path to becoming in many ways
property, media, and entertainment attorneys of thethe functional equivalent of the world’s largest
former Smith Dornan Dehn PC. Joining these formerand most affordable global law firm. SDD Global is
SDD attorneys at SmithDehn LLP are Alex Hannell insolving one of the most urgent problems of today's
London, former NBC and CBS television in-housebusinesses, namely, the inefficiencies of having most
counsel Benton Levy, former Chicago Mercantilelegal work done in locations that often are among the
Exchange Director and Associate General Counselmost expensive, and the least productive.