India is an attractive investment destination. In the last few years, India has witnessed tremendous growth in certain sectors. Apart from being a hub for cost effective skilled man power, India offers a vast internal market. Hence, it is evident that India has a lot to offer to anyone looking to do business in India.
Increase in global business and commerce have given joint ventures a new dimension. Joint ventures beyond geographical boundaries are alliances to share opportunity, resources and deliver cutting edge performance.
The firm is recognized for delivering excellent legal strategies and commercially viable advice within prescribed timelines.
Cross-border work is where the team specializes and majority of the transactions have a multi-jurisdictional focus.
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Ever since its inception, the firm is widely acknowledged as the leader in Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency practice in India.
Our highly qualified, innovative and experienced team includes lawyers, chartered accountants, MBAs and Engineers. The firm understands that there are situations when a distressed business can be rescued, rehabilitated or reorganized to enhance value. The firm therefore works together with clients, whether debtors in default or creditors to identify, in order to adopt and implement the best solution.
The firm’s restructuring and insolvency team helps maximize recovery, protect business or investment, preserve critical relationships and minimize write offs. However, if a client’s distressed situation is not resolved through a recovery platform, then we further work to formulate strategies which can guide the clients through the process of insolvency.
The firm has handled matters across multiple industries including media, entertainment, transportation, manufacturing, energy and real estate. We have advised on the largest and most complex restructurings, and pride ourselves on providing pioneering solutions as well as real commercial results.
To provide a seamless and integrated service, the firm works closely with specialists in related practice areas including finance, corporate, real estate, employment, pension, tax, environment, regulatory, capital markets and litigation. The firm also advises defaulting companies, lenders and investors at all levels of the capital structure as well as corporates/directors, defaulting companies, banks, insolvency officeholders/ trustees and government institutions.
Our expertise covers legal and commercial advice on matters including:
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services help clients tackle the broad issues of corporate governance, enterprise risk management, and effective corporate compliance, while offering specialized assistance in key areas such as financial reporting, tax, information technology, human capital, anti-fraud and dispute consulting, and financial advisory services. The team can help organizations identify, remediate, monitor, exploit and manage enterprise risks in addition to coordinating the utilization of people, process and technology to improve GRC effectiveness and help manage costs.
We have a breadth of compliance and regulatory expertise, acting for clients across a range of sectors to help ensure that your brand, reputation and enterprise are not only protected but also positioned to create additional value. The team advises clients across full spectrum of risk management and compliance covering all industries, including those operating in regulated sectors.
Our highly qualified and experience team of professionals works closely with client’s corporate compliance team and set up robust compliance programs, conducts risk assessments and compliance audits. The approach is complemented by the extensive risk and controls technical knowledge and sector-specific experience of the team.
Our team provides the following services that results in a risk solution tailored to meet the unique needs of the clients:
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The firm has expertise to tackle the wide range of issue and concerns that can challenge any organization operating in today’s complex competitive environment. The firm is recognized for its excellent strategy and solution oriented approach in this area of practice.
The firm provides guidance to domestic and international clients on matters relating to general corporate compliance including but not limited to investment regulations, sectoral caps and regulatory issues/compliances. The clients for this practice area hail from across sectors including but not limited to telecom, e-commerce, technology, ITES, power, healthcare, real estate, defense, retail, pharmaceuticals, education, infrastructure, media, automobile, etc.
The firm actively advises clients on trade related issues which directly impact foreign investments in India. Such issues may include preferential market access to Indian companies, localization of technology, transfer of technology etc. The firm actively takes part in consultation processes with the Government of India and related ministries on policy related issues and submits proposal, papers on required changes in the extant policy.
The team advises and assists clients on:
The firm offers a comprehensive service portfolio to the lenders, borrowers, advisers and other intermediaries. The clients include leading banks, financial institutions, NBFCs and business houses. Deal management and the ability to handle challenging structuring issues and complex negotiations are the main strengths of the firm. The firm handles the entire spectrum of work including due diligence on the Borrowers, Promoters and Projects / Securities, structuring transactions, drafting term sheets and transactional documents, negotiations, advising on the regulatory framework and related issues.
The firm has been recognized and recommended in many international publications and ranking platform for its exceptional work in the Banking & Finance practice, including Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, IFLR1000, Asia Law Profiles etc. The Firm also represents its clients in disputes relating to recovery issues before various tribunals and courts.
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The firm’s vast experience and industry knowledge, combined with the diverse skills of our lawyers allow us to represent our clients before regulatory bodies and in formal legal proceedings.
The firm has expertise in handling large scale real estate transactions including those involving FDI in the real estate sector and has in the past provided advisory with respect to township, SEZ and other residential and commercial real estate projects in India. The firm has advised on complicated joint development arrangements involving issues relating to sharing of FSI, sharing of revenue, joint development etc.
The services include advising:
Our cybersecurity compliance team is regarded as one of the leading cybersecurity law experts in India and has extensive experience in assisting clients with all aspects related to identification, reporting and mitigation cyber risks, this service offering includes helping clients assess network/data security gaps, assist in putting in place appropriate courter measures, cybersecurity and data handling polices and insurance coverage prior to an attack to dealing with the regulatory aspects of the aftermath of an attack. The team includes an experienced policy experts collaborating with cyber forensic experts with a unique blend of skills that span various practice areas to help clients deal with cybersecurity issues.
Our services with respect to cybersecurity include:
Our intellectual property team has expertise in all areas of trade/service mark, trade secret, design, copyright and patent law. As a Leading Intellectual Property law firm in India, we advise our clients on selection, availability, use and registration of the same in India and globally. This practice area consists of several individuals with scientific backgrounds to facilitate patent prosecution. We have the expertise to negotiate on behalf of celebrities and draft relevant agreements.
Additionally, we advise on worldwide domain name registration and disputes, on-line infringements other issues relating to Internet law mainly rooted from trade mark and copyright law. We also have attorneys who have extensive experience in the litigation of intellectual property conflicts. In addition, our team is also experienced in negotiating and drafting a variety of license agreements.
We help clients in enhancing their Intellectual Property portfolio in India. This would include a range of services from identifying key resources and creative aspects to the prosecution/protection of those key assets to examining and re-examining commercial models to leverage brand position.
