Smith Dornan Dehn an international media, entertainment and intellectual property law firm from New York, Los Angeles, and London, launched its legal service offshoring business from Mysore, India about a year ago. Some of Smith Dornan Dehn’s current clients are Sony Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, HBO and the Clinton organization. Its Indian subsidiary is SDD Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd the only legal process outsourcing company in India managed by a United States law firm.
SDD Global Solutions is a 24/365, state-of-the-art, high-end legal services KPO company. It performs high-end legal research, analysis and drafting, and claims to be the equivalent of a global law firm in many ways.
It has already attracted numerous Fortune 100 clients and their accompanying assets and profits, among them a number of international retail brands, some American book publishers and several major television and motion picture companies and law firms.
SDD Global is now in the process of moving to its own 330-employee building. It will soon be hiring 200 new recruits but plans to expand its number of employees to 50,000 in the near future.
The company is funded by SFP Priority Co. Ltd., a member of the SFP Group, a large Asia-based investor, as well as by State Bank of India and investors from Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Cisco Systems.
SDD Global claims to be solving one of the most pressing problems of today’s businesses, i.e. the inadequacy of having legal work done in locations that often are among the most expensive, and the least productive.
It has also described the launch of its India operations from Mysore as a “paradigm shift in the way legal services are provided in the 21st century”.