From incorporating entities, creating business models, and complying with employment and property laws and statutory filings, to establishing subsidiaries, securing regulatory approvals, and negotiating business contracts and leases, the Firm’s general corporate advisory practice aims to offer its Clients comprehensive support from start to finish.
We help Clients identify and reduce legal risks and liability at every level and keep them informed about regulatory changes that could affect their business.
On commercial contracts, we have a specialisation whereby, we map contracts to ascertain if every aspect of your business is covered under the contracts. We also standardize contracts to ensure sufficiency as we understand the usual difficulties a company may face from a strategic, operational and financial perspective. Our scope includes conducting negotiations on pertinent clauses of such contracts.
We offer advice on corporate governance matters to listed companies, financial institutions, institutional investors, private equity players, board committees, and directors.
We conduct compliance audits and review laws that apply to the legal entity as they pursue business operations, to help them determine the extent of compliance, and to help in aligning to the requirements of law.
The Firm has a super specialization in all aspects of Foreign Exchange Law, including structuring of Foreign Direct Investments and External Commercial Borrowings into India, as well as guiding Clients in transactions involving Imports, and Exports. The firm also supports with the structuring of investments outside India.
Our Team has extensive expertise in providing solutions with respect to various complexities of applicable laws, investment structures, obtaining regulatory approvals, drafting legal opinions, audit as well as meeting compliance and reporting requirements. The Firm handles all matters related to the Reserve Bank of India and the Enforcement Directorate.
The Firm’s dedicated Mergers and Acquisitions practice involves end-to-end assistance for our Clients on a wide range of share purchases, shareholders’ agreements, asset purchases, business transfers and slump sale transactions including the following:
The Joint Venture practice of the Firm adds a significant touch in terms of structuring and advising strategic alliances at every stage including:
The team of legal specialists at the Firm recurrently assist the Clients on the structuring of their Funds, including the choice of domicile and vehicle, based on various factors, and any legal and/or financial risks resulting from the planned asset class or classes in which the fund will invest. We assist in:
The Firm has an extensive litigation practice and handles cases before all courts, including the Supreme Court, High Courts, and other Courts and Tribunals such as the NCLT, NCLAT, DRT, DRAT, and others. We specialize in amalgamations, demergers, restructuring, shareholder disputes, recoveries, and more.
Our pre-litigation strategies, our associations with leading senior counsels in India and our stagewise updates, help our Clients make better decisions.
The Firm’s expertise lies in its vast knowledge of handling cases with respect to the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013, The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002, The Consumer Protection Act 1986, etc.
The Firm handles cases on alternate dispute resolution mechanisms as well. Our team represents Clients who prefer to settle the dispute through such mechanisms, through arbitration and mediation proceedings in all practice areas, including assistance in seeking any injunctive relief from the courts prior to, during, and post-arbitration proceedings, and proceedings in court for enforcement of arbitral awards, smooth resolution of the disputes at mediation proceedings by providing succinct solutions.
From general regulatory compliance to transaction-related advice, drafting/reviewing of policies, data processing agreements, and other related documents, cross-border data transfers and disclosures, government access requests, data security and breach notification, data retention, use of new age technologies, and defence against investigations and proceedings regarding privacy/data protection violations or security failures, we provide our Clients with legal advice on all aspects of privacy laws and data protection.
We guide the Corporates and assist in the formulation of privacy policies, terms and conditions/terms of use for their websites and web-based applications in line with their business models/offerings so as to align the data collection, storage, retention, and processing of the same under the applicable laws such as the Information Technology Act 2000 read with the relevant rules, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) rules, General Data Protection Regulation, EU (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 1996 of the USA (HIPAA), etc.
In terms of The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (notified on 11.08.2023 and yet to take effect), we assist our Clientele comprising of data fiduciaries, data processors as well as data principals to ensure compliance with the said Act, as part of our “Prevention is better than Cure” approach by: (a) Legal Assessment and mapping; and (b) Assistance in Implementation of the Act.
The Firm’s intellectual property team comprises lawyers who have a penchant for technology and market trends in this competitive world. It is this right blend of these distinct sectors that makes Clients choose our Firm to entrust us with their requirements on this subject matter.
Our passion-driven approach has helped a lot of Clients in protecting and valuing their intellectual assets at a substantial level.
Our scope of services includes:
Drafting, negotiating, vetting, and finalizing transactions that involve IP so as to ensure optimum utilisation of revenue by the Client, stemming from an acquisition, investment, or a joint venture concerning the sale/license of trademarks, copyrights, designs, technology transfer agreements, software development/services agreements, service level agreements, etc.
The Firm handles a wide range of transactions and regulatory issues including:
Our Real Estate Team is multi-lingual and proficient in local languages for rendering services effectively.
Indian employment laws encompass a wide range of central and state-specific employment statutes, regulatory measures, and judicial rulings. The applicability of these statutes depends on various factors, including the industry sector, the type of work performed by employees, the size of the workforce, pay scales, and the length of service.
In addition to offering strategic, board-level advice on employment-related and compliance matters, we also support human resources departments and in-house counsels on a daily basis and help manage employment risks at all levels.
Our expertise lies in dealing with the following:
