Practise Areas
Our practise areas include (but not limited to) Civil Laws, Criminal Law, Banking & Finance, Corporate & Commercial, Construction & Infrastructure, Dispute Resolution, Employment & Labour Law, Intellectual Property Rights, Personal Injury, Regulatory & Compliance, Technology & Commercial Transaction, Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, RBI & SEBI regulations and Compliances, etc.
Intellectual Property Rights Laws
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognise more than others. The most well-known types are copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. The main purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage the creation of a wide variety of intellectual goods. To achieve this, the law gives people and businesses property rights to the information and intellectual goods they create, usually for a limited period of time. This gives economic incentive for their creation because it allows people to profit from the information and intellectual goods they create. These economic incentives are expected to stimulate innovation and contribute to the technological progress of countries, which depends on the extent of protection granted to innovators.
Corporate and Business Laws
Corporate law (also known as business law or enterprise law or sometimes company law) is the body of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organisations and businesses. The Companies Act 2013 is an Act of the Parliament of India on Indian company law which regulates incorporation of a company, responsibilities of a company, directors, dissolution of a company. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is established under the Companies Act 2013 and was constituted on 1 June 2016 by the government of India relating to insolvency and winding up of companies. The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) is established in March 2018 as an oversight body to investigate matters of professional misconduct by chartered accountants or CA firms.
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy, a unified code came into force in 2016, is a form of social legislation encompassing all companies, partnership and individuals. It aims at proving relief to all of them. It undertakes to maximise the value of the assets of the debtors and also tries to balance the interest of all the shareholders. The Code guarantees to achieve far-reaching reforms with a push on creditor has driven insolvency resolution. It aims at prior identification of financial failure and increasing the asset value of insolvent firms/companies. It is a statutory procedure caused by insolvency through which a person is relieved of most of its debts and undergoes judiciary supervision or liquidator for the benefit of that person’s creditor.
Arbitration & Conciliation
The Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 the governing arbitration statute in India. It is based on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in 1985. Previous statutory provisions on arbitration were contained in three different enactments, namely, the Arbitration Act, 1940, the Arbitration (Protocol and Convention) Act, 1937 and the Foreign Awards (Recognition and Enforcement) Act, 1961. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 has repealed the Arbitration Act, 1940 and also the Acts of 1937 and 1961.
Pre-Litigation Mediation
Litigation is a suit which is still pending in the court process. Whereas, Pre-Litigation takes place before the court process begins. It is voluntarily taken up by both the parties. It is a prior attempt to resolve the dispute before the case goes through the court process. It follows an assisted negotiation process. Pre-Litigation mediation saves time and money of the parties as well as it is a speedy process; and they also get to know about the temperament, deeds and demands of each of the parties. The procedure takes place with the help of a mediator, who promotes communication but the procedure holds great confidentiality in its own. The mediator works with both the parties along with their counsels for dispute resolution and does not impose the decision upon the parties. All types of cases can go through the beneficial means of Pre-Litigation Mediation like matrimonial disputes, business disputes, insurance disputes, civil disputes, etc.
Criminal Law
We provide complete and comprehensive legal services under criminal law from registering a criminal complaint at Police station to its assistance into the investigation, recording of statements, trial, pieces of evidence and final arguments. We provide legal protection to our client from undue harassment by the police/CBI by obtaining stay order of arrest from High Courts, Bail, Anticipatory Bail, restraining orders etc. We assist our clients at every level of trial as a defence counsel.
Registration & Incorporations
There are several types of registrations like Private Limited Company, Limited Liability Partnership, Partnerships, etc. with the concerned authorities like Ministry of Corporate Affairs, etc. We provide litigation and corporate consultancy services.
Industrial & Labour Laws
Our Firm deals with comprehensive services on all aspects relating to labour and employment Laws in India, including advise on various formalities that have to be compiled with, litigation, negotiation, and collective bargaining. Our firm has been conducting matters with various authorities viz. Labour Tribunals. P.F. Appellate Tribunal, etc. for various Public and Private Sector Undertakings.
Banking & Finance Laws
Keeping in line with the international trends on helping financial institutions to recover their bad Debt quickly and efficiently, the Government of India has constituted thirty-three Debt Recovery Tribunal and five Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal across the country. The Debt Recovery Tribunal is located across the country. Some cities have more than one Debt Recovery Tribunal located therein. New Delhi and Mumbai have three Debt Recovery Tribunal. Chennai and Kolkata have two Debt Recovery Tribunal each. One Debt Recovery Tribunal each has been constituted at Ahmadabad, Allahabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Ernakulam, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Ranchi and Vishakapatnam. Depending upon the number of cases a Debt Recovery Tribunal is constituted.
Civil Laws
We provide comprehensive legal services to our clients under litigation of civil laws, Law related to Transfer of Property, Will, Estate, Succession, Law of Recovery including money recovery, recovery of possession, suits related to children, wards, guardianships, letter of administration, estate, Joint property, tenancy, joint tenancy, fixation of rent, eviction procedure, probate, custody, execution, claims, injunctions, rendition of accounts, damages, partitions etc. before any courts, Tribunals, Commissions, Boards and other Judicial or Quasi-Judicial Authorities. These services include advising, drafting of pleading and appearing in the courts, filing appeals, revisions, writs, SLPs. Etc.
Family & Divorce Laws
When a matrimonial dispute arises between parties to the marriage, it brings a number of litigation with it. It includes civil as well as criminal litigation and involves civil laws, family laws, matrimonial laws as well as criminal law.
Consumer & Competition Laws
In order to promote and protect the rights and interests of consumers, quasi judicial machinery is sought to be set up at district, state and central levels. These quasi-judicial bodies have to observe the principles of natural justice and have been empowered to give reliefs, of specific nature and also to impose penalties for non-compliance of the orders given by such bodies. The main object of these bodies is to provide speedy and simple redressal to consumer disputes. It is one of the benevolent pieces of legislation intended to protect the consumers at large from exploitation.
Competition Law
‘Big business” by its bigness sometimes succeeds in keeping the competitors out and this takes place only because of their financial strength. The elimination of the strong men in industries or business increases the imbalance in the distribution of wealth and income of the country. India being a developing country wanted to promote industrial growth keeping in view the socio-economic objectives and therefore, for the adoption of such approach, the state created a legal framework namely, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Acct, 1969 (MRTP). The purpose of the MRTP Act was to curb the outlaw for the common good. The MRTP Act was replaced by the Competition Act, 2002.
IT & Cyber Laws
The Information Technology Act has been passed to give effect to the UN resolution and to promote efficient delivery of Government services by means of reliable electronic records. This law is to provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred to as "electronic commerce", which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of communication and storage of information and to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the Government agencies.
Commercial Contracts & Joint Ventures
The corporate team of the firm is well equipped and has wide expertise in dealing with the matters related to the law of Trust and Societies, Partnerships, company laws, Drafting of Corporate agreements and commercial contracts, Deeds, MOU/MOA. For drafting of commercial agreements, our team firstly minutely analyses the requirement and scope of the said agreement and lists the challenges that may come in the way of execution and functioning of the said agreement. Thereafter, after rounds of meeting and detailed understanding, we prepare a tailor-made agreement that suits the particular business requirement for the particular client is given a particular situation.
Supreme Court Practice
Our firm has a very wide and comprehensive experience of dealing with Supreme Court Cases. We provide multiple legal services, to our clients, before the Supreme Court of India.
Real Estate Laws
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 was passed by Parliament and all the 92 sections of the act came into effect from May 01, 2017. The object of this act is to protect the interest of home buyers as well as to help boost investment in the Real Estate Industry. Under this act, an adjudicating mechanism for speedy dispute redressal has been prescribed. This act ensures timely execution of the projects, improved quality of construction, the balance between the right of buyers and builders and furthermore brings accountability and transparency in the Real Estate Industry.
