Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
We offer a comprehensive service portfolio to the lenders, borrowers and advisers. We have represented leading banks, financial institutions, and business houses. We have expertise includes Project and Leveraged Finance, Debt Restructuring, Acquisition Finance, Syndicated Lending and Structured Products.
Corporate
We advise corporations through all stages of the business life cycle, including choosing and establishing the appropriate business entity, securing venture capital/ private equity funding, legal structuring, assisting the corporation in obtaining approvals from various Government departments, assisting the corporation in secretarial compliance, assisting on going legal and regulatory compliance and drafting, negotiating and finalisation of various contracts necessary for the corporation.
Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Arbitration’s key aspect is to analyse facts and present the claims involved with utmost depth of technical and legal analysis. It is also a scope where our team assists you in quantifying your claim for the damages suffered during execution of contractual liabilities. We offer a cost-effective and time efficient tailored approach for decision-making in a timely manner.
Our proven contract management methodologies enable us to provide early advice on how contracts can be set up and managed to avoid claims, and also how to deal with claims when they do occur. We have the ability to provide such advice for all stages of a project.
Our fundamental strength is that we deliver high-quality services which account for our clients’ operational and commercial priorities in seeking to maximise their profitability. As part of this, we offer the benefits of an external eye and best-practice benchmarking.
We cater to the disputes in the following Sectors:
- Infrastructure & Construction
- Real Estate & Housing
- Energy Sector
Intellectual Property
Our intellectual property practice group has vast experience in handling all forms of IP such as:
- Copyright
- Designs
- Patents
- Trademarks and names
- Domain names and internet related IP issues
- Confidential information and trade secrets
- Geographical indications
- New forms of statutory intellectual property
Real Estate
Our real estate practice group focuses exclusively on core conveyancing and real estate transaction support work. With in-depth knowledge of Indian property laws, commercial drive and deep sector experience, our real estate practitioners stand out from others in the field.
In addition, our extensive networks of offices combined with established relationships with local lawyers across cities in India enables us to understand and advise clients whilst
factoring in differing local nuances.
We offer a full range of legal services in real estate including:
- Documentation to registration of commercial leases and licenses
- Conveyancing
- Property management and maintenance contracts
- Mortgages and other debt security documents
- Investigations of land title
- Advice on structuring real estate investments
Criminal Law & Matrimonial Laws
The strength of our criminal law practice group rests on our ability to formulate and execute legally and tactically sound responses and strategies for clients in complex and multi-jurisdictional litigation.
We assist in prosecution but also defend companies, as well as their directors and officers, in corporate-fraud cases for offences of cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery and other offences under various socio-economic laws.
Apart from this, our criminal law practice team has extensive experience to handle cases relating to all IPC offences and cases falling under other penal statutes. The Team has extensive skill to handle delicate family law matters including custody of minor children and matrimonial discord disputes. We actively work in the area of forensic audits/investigations.
Law governs human conduct and one of the most important aspects of human life is our interpersonal relationships. Our experts have first-hand experience and knowledge in handling crucial aspects of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption, custody, guardianship, partition, inheritance, successions etc.
We understand the nitty-gritty of all such matters. Under the guidance of second- generation family lawyers, our Firm has seen family disputes closely and have strived to solve them with utmost responsibility. Since family laws in India are governed by personal laws of different religions, we are able to convey the personal touch by focusing on the human side of such intricate disputes.
Our services include:
- Marriage registration services
- Divorce and matters relating to Restitution of Conjugal Rights
- Child Custody matters
- Adoption and Maintenance Matters
- Family Settlement and Partition Matters
- Inheritance related matters
- Counselling and Mediation services
White Collar Crimes
Our Criminal Law Practice team is actively engaged in White-Collar Defense practice. We provide a comprehensive advisory framework for our clients which would include not just internal investigations or compliance advocacy; but also coordinated crisis management / response and the defense of government investigations, enforcement actions, and ensuing criminal / civil proceedings.
We draw our extensive experience from defending corporations in high profile matters against allegations relating to every significant area of white-collar crime. We are well versed in issues that arise in complex internal investigations that span across multiple jurisdictions and mandate a strategically coordinated responses, factoring in the specifics of different legal systems.
We help multinational companies develop and implement compliance programs and also conduct anti-fraud / anti-corruption / anti – money laundering due diligence on transactions. Our attorneys have helped numerous corporations across industries develop or enhance state-of-the-art compliance or control programs that address the unique challenges, risks and opportunities of the Indian market.
The Firm has arguing counsels who are experts in criminal law and who have incisive knowledge, experience and understanding of the criminal jurisprudence, investigation process, bail and custody and trial procedures. Our attorneys represent clients before investigating agencies including Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Crime Branch, Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Special Investigation Team (SIT), Serious Fraud Investigation Office, Ministry of Corporate Affairs (SFIO), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).