Zia Mody, 

I never give up and I never think I am home free. In fact, I am slightly paranoid, says Mody. That’s what makes her India's best-known corporate lawyer. AZB added close to 50 lawyers over the past few months, taking the firm's head count to 400. Mody had a busy year with AZB advising a number of bigticket deals: Softbank's investments in Ola Cabs and Housing. com; sales of Lafarge to Nirma for $1.4 billion, and Alliance Tires to Yokohama Rubber for $1.2 billion; General Electric's acquisition of Alstom for $10 billion; the merger of HDFC Standard Life and Max Life, resulting in a company worth $9.7 billion; and the merger of five State Bank of India subsidiaries.