a legal law firm

This includes:

• Securitisation of various types of loans, such as mortgages, vehicle finance, corporate & personal loans, hire purchase & leases.
• Debt restructuring, including court-approved schemes of arrangement & negotiated settlements.
• Bankruptcy and recovery proceedings and security enforcement
• Derivatives products, including advising clients on litigation relating to their enforceability in India.

Capital market offerings include:

• Initial and further public offers, rights and preferential issues
• Issues of American/ Global Depository Receipts and Indian Depository Receipts
• Issues of convertible or exchangeable bonds and warrants
• Private placements by listed companies
• Tender offers through stock exchanges
• Bulk and block deals
• Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCBs)
• Alternative Investment Market products
• Real estate investment trusts, business trusts and other foreign listings.

We advise on a full range of competition matters, including:

• Enforcement (cartel investigations and abuse of dominance)
• Merger control
• Competition audit
• Compliance

India has a complicated and detailed exchange control regime. We have extensive experience working with foreign investors on their India strategy and also guiding them through the regulatory framework for foreign investment – whether this relates to acquisitions or setting up of greenfield or joint ventures.
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
• Exploring opportunities for inorganic growth
• Advising on business and operational restructuring
• Ensuring ongoing legal and regulatory compliance
• Working through dissolution and other exit strategies.

We are highly experienced in planning and implementing successful strategies for clients faced with conflict situations and disputes before the Indian Supreme Court, various High Courts and regulatory tribunals, and in institutional and ad-hoc arbitrations before various domestic and international arbitral tribunals, and also through alternative methods of resolution such as arbitration, conciliation, and mediation, on such matters as follows but not limited to

• Disputes relating to joint ventures
• Shareholder rights
• Real estate transactions
• Tax matters
• Competition matters
• Commercial and infrastructure contracts
• Company law matters
• Regulatory matters
• Securities law matters

This includes:

• Tax structuring
• Tax advice in transactions
• General tax advisory
• Client representation in tax disputes
• Tax treaty interpretation
• Transfer pricing and withholding tax
• International taxation
• Income tax
• Customs laws
• Excise laws
• Service tax
• Value added tax (VAT)
• Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Employment :
India has a detailed and complex employment law regime, and we help multinational as well as local clients manage their workforce here, by offering clear, practical and business-oriented solutions.
We provide regulatory advice to employer organisations in India and overseas, covering the entire spectrum of employment issues from hiring to termination, including all relevant aspects such as:

• Employee benefits
• Whistle blower laws
• Non-compete arrangements
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Data protection
• Sexual harassment
• General regulatory compliance.


• In addition to regulatory and general advice, we also advise on the employment-related aspects of business and commercial transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, business transfers, and closures of operations or undertakings..

Personal Planning:
We have enough experience in advising promoter families, high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs in relation to structuring and holding their wealth and family businesses, especially in a taxation and succession friendly manner.
This includes

• Estate and succession planning, including preparation of Wills and Codicils; providing probate and executorship services.
• Establishment of private family trusts (which may include private trustee companies, professional trustees and/or protectors, as desired); on-going advisory services for established domestic and offshore trusts.
• Providing cross border advice across many jurisdictions (especially the UK & USA).
• Restructuring of existing promoter / family holdings in a tax efficient and succession-friendly manner.
• Establishment and structuring of family offices and other investment / holding structures.
• Creation, implementation and monitoring of family governance structures, including preparation of family constitutions.
• Advising on corporate governance and business structuring from the perspective of family governance, and incidental advice on all corporate matters.
• Advising on philanthropic and charitable endeavours, including establishment of public charitable trusts and advice on corporate social responsibility.
• Advice on family settlements and partitions.
• Family dispute resolution either through arbitration, mediation, and/or litigation.
• Conveyances and gifts of assets, including shares, movable and immoveable properties.
• Direct taxation related advice (both domestic and international).
• Risk management and regulatory advice, including compliance with securities laws, takeover regulations, exchange control laws, liaising and dealing with regulators (especially RBI and SEBI), as required.

Intellectual Property :
We offer end-to-end services relating to all aspects of pure intellectual property (IP) and its interplay with corporate commercial laws, from concept to defining scope and acquisition of intellectual property, its enforcement and protection, structuring, and documenting monetisation.

•  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

Our technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice group advises clients on structuring and executing their transactions in the TMT sphere in India, and also provides specialist regulatory and strategic advice. In addition, we provide advice on commercial contracting, and represent clients before the regulatory authorities and government departments that are relevant to the constituent industries across TMT industries and their sub-sectors, including:

• IT (including software development and licensing)
• Outsourcing
• Online gaming
• Online gambling
• Mobile and fixed line telecom operators
• Internet service providers
• Print and digital media
• Broadcasting
• Film and music production and distribution
• We have extensive experience advising clients on the regulatory framework affecting the TMT industries in India.

Infrastructure sectors where we offer services include:

• Power
• Oil and gas
• Ports
• Roads
• Airports
• Urban infrastructure
• Railways

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

This includes:

• Rent Matters
• Recovery Proceedings
• Contract Enforcements
• Specific Performances

From murder cases to white-collar crimes such as fraud, the wide variety of cases makes this particular area of law so diverse and interesting. Working on a case from the very start, right up until the case is settled. To expand on this, a criminal lawyer would file the case and investigate. They would carry out visits to the prisons themselves and police stations and get to review all the relevant documents (such as witness statements, medical reports etc.)

• Bails and Bailbond Services
• All such criminal matters such as theft, murder etc

Investigations
The strength of our investigations 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 advise on:

• Anti-bribery
• Money laundering and corruption issues
• Economic offences
• Regulatory investigations


• 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.
  We actively work in the area of forensic audits/investigations, and co-ordinate with seasoned external forensic and other cross-disciplinary experts to provide the best representation to our clients.

Family law covers a wide range of matters, but a few examples of the areas that a family lawyer might handle legal issues in are:

• Divorce or annulment
• Adoption
• Pre-nuptial agreements
• Domestic violence
• Child custody
• Domestic relationships

Public law is a field of law that covers the government’s relationship with the citizens it oversees, it also considers the relationships between citizens that might have an effect on society. If the government makes a questionable decision on the rights of the individuals in society, or does not act within the law, this is where a specialist lawyer in public law might step in.
Public law can involve:

• Constitutional law
• Human rights law
• Public interest litigations
• Criminal law
• Tax law
• Procedural law

Courts

• Supreme Court of India
• High Courts of India
• Delhi High Court
• District Courts of India
• Delhi District Courts
• Tis Hazari (Central District)
• Tis Hazari (West District)
• Patiala Court (New Delhi District)
• Karkardooma (East District)
• Karkardooma (North East District)
• Karkardooma (Shahdra District)
• Rohini (North District)
• Rohini (North West District)
• Dwarka (South West District)
• Saket (South District)
• Saket (South East District)