In a glittering evening during the Riyadh International Disputes Week 2025, Fox & Mandal turned the clock back 125 years—then launched it into the future.
India’s Law Minister, Arjun Ram Meghwal, unveiled a striking triad at a reception hosted by the firm: a commemorative coffee table book, a specially designed Postal Stamp, and a First Day Cover, all dedicated to celebrating Fox & Mandal’s monumental legacy.
From its inception in 1896 by John Kerr Fox and Gokul Chandra Mandal, the firm has evolved from colonial roots into a pan-India legal powerhouse—its story now bound in a richly illustrated coffee table book titled Adaptability. More than a chronicle, the book captures how the firm not only endured but transformed with each wave of change, from pre-independence lawrooms to today’s global arbitration circuits.
The event saw legal dignitaries from across the world gather under one roof. Among them were DIFC Courts’ H.E. Wayne Martin and H.E. Michael Black, India’s Attorney General R. Venkataramani, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan, and Dr. Hamed Merah from the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration. Standing among them was Kunal Vajani, Joint Managing Partner of Fox & Mandal, representing a firm where heritage is not preserved in amber—but retooled for tomorrow.
The India Post tribute—rare, perhaps unprecedented, in the legal fraternity—features evocative sketches of the firm’s founders on the stamp, and architectural flourishes from the Calcutta High Court on the First Day Cover. It’s a philatelic salute to endurance, evolution, and excellence.
More than just a book or a stamp, the evening symbolized something larger: a bridge between eras, etched in ink and bound by principle. Fox & Mandal’s journey isn’t merely legal history—it’s a cultural artefact, a branding odyssey, and a statement that some legacies aren’t inherited; they’re earned, over centuries.
