- Chief Executive Officer: Ram Vasudevan
- Chief Operating Officer: Sirisha Gummaregula
Firm Overview: QuisLex (‘Anything Law’) is a premier litigation and corporate LPO services provider whose client portfolio includes Global 100 corporations as well as AM Law 10, AM Law 25, AM Law 100 and magic circle law firms. As a ‘pure play’ LPO, QuisLex focuses exclusively on providing complex and specialised services tailored to its litigation and corporate clients’ needs. QuisLex is headquartered in New York and provides services from its state-of-the-art and uniquely secure execution centres in India to its worldwide client base. QuisLex has grown organically over the past eight plus years from three employees to over 600, mostly due to repeat work and references from clients.
Main Areas of Practice:
Litigation: QuisLex’s litigation services focus on document review and related aspects of electronic discovery. To date, QuisLex has reviewed over two billion pages in various matters across diverse industries, including the financial services, insurance, oil and gas, high tech,pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and automotive industries, among others. QuisLex deploys proprietary search methodologies and empirical algorithms to assist clients in early case assessments/intelligent document reduction and to prepare for Rule 26(f) or other meet and confer sessions at the start of the review. Additionally, QuisLex prepares privilege logs and performs redactions for privilege, trade secrets and confidentiality. QuisLex also provides end-toend trial and witness preparation assistance such as detailed pattern/trend analysis, chronologies and deposition analysis/comparisons.
Financial Services: QuisLex has developed a specialisation in financial services matters, and has performed numerous complex reviews including ones involving CDS, CMBS/ RMBS, auction rate securities, hedge funds,mutual funds, naked short selling, general securities law and employment law before the SEC, FINRA, DOJ, state attorneys general, the FSA, the Serious Fraud Office, and the EC as well as in general corporate/commercial litigations.
Antitrust: QuisLex has significant experience in HSR Second Requests and private antitrust litigations, including class actions.The company was recently engaged to handle both sides of a Second Request in the healthcare industry, in what the company believes to be an industry-first mutual waiver of conflicts. IP Litigation: QuisLex has reviewed documents for complex intellectual property matters in a variety of industries, including semiconductors, technology, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. QuisLex typically has its substantive experts such as engineers work with its review teams on complex patent litigations.
FCPA/Internal/Regulatory Investigations: QuisLex has assisted several clients in complying with high-profile, high-stakes investigations in an efficient manner in the US, the UK, and the EU. The company has worked on several FCPA/Regulatory investigations before various agencies including successfully completing the document review for one of the largest FCPA investigations to date.The company is currently assisting a Global 500 Corporation in designing and implementing a comprehensive compliance program involving 80 plus countries.
M&A: QuisLex’s highly specialised teams support both acquirors and targets in their pre-merger due diligence, including preparing disclosure schedules. The company also provides strategic assistance in highly-specialised aspects of M&A such as corporate restructuring. QuisLex has reviewed tens of thousands of complex contracts for its clients in providing detailed post-merger/acquisition integration analysis. Such analysis is crucial for harmonising contracting practices between the buyer and seller and in ensuring application and use of best practices across all client divisions.
Contracts Management: QuisLex currently manages billions of dollars’worth of sales and procurement contracts on behalf of its clients. QuisLex’s dedicated teams provide end-to-end contract management support to the legal departments of its Global 500 clients, including creation and management of contract databases, contract drafting, preparation of negotiating guidelines, creation of contracts playbooks for exception identification and analysis, escalation process mapping, and ongoing contracts maintenance.
Contracts Analysis: QuisLex identifies material rights and obligations, captures deviations from standard terms and conditions, provides substantive classifications of contracts, captures key metrics required for business purposes, and creates standards and best practices for contract management. Quislex creates additional value for its clients by capturing operational metrics and contract content to identify process improvements and other efficiencies and enhance its clients’ substantive negotiating positions.The company assists in complex contracts analysis in various industries for several of its Global 500 clients on a regular basis.
International Work: QuisLex provides litigation support services to its clients worldwide, in matters ranging from antitrust, IP, and corporate litigation in US courts, to investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission,Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and FINRA in the US and the Financial Services Authority, Serious Fraud Office and Office of Fair Trading in the UK, and in regulatory and internal investigations throughout the EU and before the European Commission. QuisLex also provides corporate services to clients on six continents and across 14 time zones. Clients consistently recognise QuisLex’s commitment to quality and security when trusting the company with their matters. As a long-time industry leader, QuisLex has continually set the benchmarks in attaining internationally recognised standards, including attaining the ISO 27001: 2005 certification for information security; having a proprietary, ISO 9001: 2008 certified Quality Management System; fully integrating Six Sigma and advanced statistical concepts into its processes; becoming EU Safe Harbor self-certified and an SSAE 16 (formerly SAS 70 Type II) entity; and to successfully demonstrate HIPAA compliance.
Clients: QuisLex’s clients include leading global financial institutions; insurance companies; major technology, pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies; Global 500 corporations and worldwide industry leaders; and AM Law 10, AM Law 25, AM Law 100 and magic circle law firms.
Certifications: ISO 27001:2005 Certification for Information Security; ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Quality Management; SSAE 16 (formerly SAS 70 Type II) Certification for Compliance; EU SafeHarbor Self Certified; HIPAA compliant.