Suits & Sayings: High Stakes

A lavish Bengaluru dinner last week has set corporate and legal circles talking. Billed as a birthday celebration for a prominent lawyer—albeit a few weeks late—it brought together several of the country’s leading corporate lawyers, courtesy of a well-known business family figure. The timing added intrigue. The lawyer is representing one side in a high-stakes corporate dispute, while a close family connection of the host is understood to be on the other. Just a belated birthday bash, perhaps—but one whose guest list was always going to get noticed.

(For more on our weekly roundup of wackiest whispers and murmurs in corporate corridors & policy parlours, pick up today's edition of The Economic Times newspaper)