Supreme Court of India · High Courts · APTEL & the State commissions
From the first hearing to the final appeal.
Incept Legal is a litigation and regulatory practice instructed across India. We appear on record in the Supreme Court, before the High Courts of Delhi, Allahabad, Bombay and Madras, and before the electricity commissions and tribunals — in regulation, company law and insolvency, arbitration and commercial disputes.
Built for matters that are argued, not just advised on.
Incept Legal is a disputes practice first. Our partners appear on record in the Supreme Court of India, before the High Courts of Delhi, Allahabad, Bombay and Madras, and before the specialist tribunals — the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, the NCLT and NCLAT, the Central Administrative Tribunal and the consumer commissions.
We act for State distribution companies and power generators, transmission utilities, government organisations and public sector undertakings, banks and insurers, and commercial clients in property, contract and insolvency disputes. Much of that work is regulatory in origin and contentious in practice, which is why we treat the two as one discipline.
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Continuity to the last court
A matter that begins in a commission and ends in the Supreme Court stays with the counsel who ran it throughout. The firm acts on record, so the file does not change hands at the point the record matters most.
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Depth in electricity regulation
Tariff determination, power purchase disputes and change-in-law claims before APTEL, the CERC and the State commissions — for distribution licensees and generators alike, and on appeal to the Supreme Court.
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A written view on merits
Clients are told at the outset what their case is worth and what it will take, in writing, and told again when the facts move. Where a matter is better settled, that recommendation is made in writing too.
03 — Flagship practice
Electricity law is
a jurisdiction of
its own.
Its own tribunal, its own commissions, its own settled body of tariff law — and a bench of counsel who appear in it week after week rather than once a year. Power and energy regulation is the practice this firm is built around.
We act for State distribution companies, private generators, transmission utilities and industrial consumers, from the tariff petition through to the civil appeal in the Supreme Court. Because the firm has Advocates-on-Record, that journey does not require changing counsel.
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Tariff & true-up
Determination, review and true-up petitions before the Central and State commissions, and the appeals that follow them.
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PPA disputes
Power purchase agreement claims, including change in law and force majeure — the questions that decide a project’s economics.
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APTEL appeals
Appeals before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, and statutory appeals onward to the Supreme Court of India.
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Open access & RPO
Open access, wheeling, banking and cross-subsidy surcharge disputes, and renewable purchase obligation compliance.
Forums we appear before
04 — Dedicated practice
The DPDP Act is
not an IT project.
It is a legal one.
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 rewired the obligations of every organisation that handles personal data in India — and, in many cases, of those that handle Indian data from outside it. Penalties run to hundreds of crores. Most compliance programmes we are asked to review were built by a vendor around a consent banner.
Ours start with the law: what data you actually hold, on what basis you hold it, what you promised the person it belongs to, and what you would have to prove to the Data Protection Board on a bad day.
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Readiness assessment
A legal gap analysis mapped to the Act and the Rules, scoped by processing activity rather than by department.
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Notice & consent
Notices that satisfy Section 5, consent flows that survive scrutiny, and a defensible record of both.
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Contracts & vendors
Data processing terms for your processors, and a position to hold when your customers send you theirs.
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Breach & Board response
Playbooks written before the incident, and representation before the Data Protection Board of India after it.
The people on your file.
All peoplePartners who appear across the commissions and tribunals, the High Courts and the Supreme Court — and a matter that reaches the last court stays with the counsel who ran it below.
Rajiv Srivastava
Senior Partner
Electricity law, banking and insurance, infrastructure regulation.
Gargi Srivastava
Partner · AOR
Power and energy regulatory, company law and insolvency.
Arpit Shukla
Partner · AOR
Civil, commercial and criminal litigation; government panel work.
Mitali Chauhan
Partner · AOR
Arbitration, contracts management and corporate insolvency.
06 — Sectors we know well
Sectors served: power generation and distribution, transmission utilities, renewable energy, infrastructure, government and public sector, banking and insurance, real estate, manufacturing and industrials, technology and telecom.
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Tell us the problem.
We will tell you, plainly,
where you stand.
Whether it is a tariff order to be appealed, a hearing already listed, or a notice that has just been served, we will tell you where you stand before you instruct us.