The roots of Mulla & Mulla can be traced back to a partnership entered into between two Parsi brothers, Sir Dinshaw F. Mulla and Rustom F. Mulla who both founded the firm in the year 1896 upon Rustom qualifying as a solicitor in December 1895. Mr. Hiralal Saraiya thereafter joined the partnership in 1896 and the name of the firm was changed to Hiralal & Mulla & Mulla. Post Indian Independence, in the year 1953, the firm merged with the law firm of Craigie Blunt & Caroe (solicitors to the famous East India Company) and was renamed in the style and form as it is known today ‘Mulla & Mulla and Craigie Blunt & Caroe’.

Our founder Dinshaw F. Mulla was elevated to the post of the Bombay High Court Judge and in 1930 was made a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, only fourth Indian to be so appointed and was thereafter knighted. His contribution to legal literature is immense. He authored 12 legal treatise and co-authored 4. His commentaries on the Indian Civil Procedure Code, The Indian Contract Act, The Transfer of Property Act, Hindu law, The Partnership Act and the Indian Sale of Goods Act are legal classics and still the legal treatise referred to on their respective subjects. A testament to his contribution not only to our law firm but also to the Indian legal system is borne out by the fact that his statute has been erected on the lawns of the Bombay High Court and his portrait is hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

While the firm started out with a practice of litigation, personal laws and real estate in the early 19th Century and created history with landmark cases like, the Mahatma Gandhi murder trial, the Escorts case which centred around one of the country’s first and most bitterly fought cross border corporate takeovers battles, the landmark constitutional case of Kesavananda Bharati, over the years and with the opening up of the Indian economy in the late 1990’s, the firm strengthened its practice areas both organically and inorganically, to transition into a full practice firm, offering a gamut of legal services, to meet the ever-increasing need of its clientele for specialist legal and regulatory services.