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What we do
Sixteen practices.
One file.
Clients rarely arrive with a problem that belongs to a single department. A tariff dispute is a regulatory proceeding, a contractual claim and, on appeal, a Supreme Court matter. We staff across practices from the first conversation rather than passing the file sideways when it stops fitting.
Power, Energy & Infrastructure Regulatory
This is the practice the firm is built around. Electricity regulation is a jurisdiction of its own — its own tribunal, its own commissions, its own settled body of tariff law — and it rewards counsel who appear in it constantly rather than occasionally.
We act for State distribution companies, private generators, transmission utilities and industrial consumers, from the tariff petition through to the appeal in the Supreme Court.
Representative work
- Tariff determination, true-up and review petitions before the State and Central commissions
- Power purchase agreement disputes, including change in law and force majeure claims
- Appeals before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL)
- Statutory appeals and civil appeals to the Supreme Court of India
- Open access, wheeling, banking and cross-subsidy surcharge disputes
- Renewable purchase obligations and regulatory compliance for generators
- Advisory and panel work for distribution licensees and State utilities
How we are different
Two of our counsel appear in this sector continuously, on both sides of the table — for State distribution companies and for private generators. That matters in a field where the commercially decisive question is usually how a particular commission has treated a particular head of cost in the past, and where that answer is not in a textbook.
Because the firm has Advocates-on-Record, a matter that starts as a tariff petition and ends as a civil appeal stays with the same counsel throughout.
Forums we appear before
Consumer Protection
A standing practice before the State and National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions — acting both for complainants and for service providers defending claims at scale.
Representative work
- Complaints and appeals before the State and National Commissions
- Defence of institutional service providers, including banks and insurers
- Deficiency of service and unfair trade practice claims
- Real estate and possession-delay complaints
- Revision and appellate proceedings arising from Commission orders
How we are different
Consumer matters are frequently treated as low-value and staffed accordingly, which is how institutions accumulate adverse orders that later bind them. We treat the first complaint as the one that sets the precedent, because in practice it usually does.
Corporate, M&A & Private Equity
We act for acquirers and targets, sponsors and founders, on transactions where the diligence findings and the deal terms are the same conversation. Our preference is to be involved before the term sheet, because that is where the risk is priced.
Representative work
- Share and asset acquisitions, including carve-outs and slump sales
- Private equity and venture investments across stages
- Joint ventures, and the exit mechanics that make them survivable
- Shareholders’ agreements, articles and governance frameworks
- Group reorganisation, mergers and schemes before the NCLT
- Buy-side and sell-side legal due diligence, including privacy diligence
How we are different
Two things. First, our diligence reports lead with the five findings that change the price or the structure, and put the rest in an annexure — a board should not have to read forty pages to find the problem. Second, we run data protection diligence as standard on any target with a consumer or employee database, because post-DPDP that liability now travels with the shares.
Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Litigation is expensive, slow and occasionally unavoidable. We are candid about which of those a matter is, and we build the file from day one as though it will be tested — because the cases that settle well are the ones that were prepared to be tried.
The firm acts on record in the Supreme Court of India. A matter that reaches it is not handed to an unfamiliar set of lawyers at the point where the record and the history matter most.
Representative work
- Supreme Court of India — filing, advocacy and appearance on record
- Commercial suits before the commercial courts and High Courts
- Domestic and institutional arbitration, including emergency relief
- Section 9 and Section 17 applications for interim protection
- Challenge and enforcement of awards
- Shareholder and joint venture disputes, including oppression and mismanagement
- Recovery, execution and asset tracing
- Writ proceedings against regulatory action
How we are different
We give a written view on merits and likely outcome ranges at the outset, and we revise it when the facts move. Clients are entitled to know whether they are funding a claim or a position. We also brief senior counsel early where the matter warrants it, rather than at the hearing that goes badly.
Technology, Media & Telecom
Product decisions are now regulatory decisions. We sit with product and engineering teams as often as with general counsel, because the cheapest time to fix a compliance problem is in the specification.
Representative work
- Intermediary status, safe harbour and the IT Rules
- Content moderation, grievance officers and takedown process
- SaaS, licensing, API and reseller agreements
- Online gaming, advertising and influencer-marketing compliance
- CERT-In directions, logging and incident reporting
- Product counsel for features touching payments, identity or minors
- AI deployment: contracting, IP allocation and disclosure obligations
How we are different
We write advice engineers can implement: not “ensure adequate consent”, but which screen, which event, which log, retained for how long. Where a regulatory position is genuinely unsettled, we say so and give you a defensible posture rather than false certainty.
Regulatory, Government & Public Bodies
Sectoral licensing, engagement with regulators, and the internal work that determines how an inspection goes. We act both in building compliance frameworks and in defending them.
Representative work
- Licence applications, renewals and condition variations
- FEMA, FDI policy and press note compliance for inbound investment
- RBI and SEBI correspondence, show-cause responses and settlement
- Anti-bribery, whistleblower and internal investigation protocols
- Competition law counselling and merger notification assessment
- Company law and secretarial compliance remediation
How we are different
Investigations are run under privilege where privilege is available, and scoped so that the answer is useful to the board rather than merely defensible to the regulator. We also do the unglamorous part — the remediation plan with owners and dates — because that is what a regulator actually asks for.
Banking & Finance
Lender-side and borrower-side, from bilateral facilities to structured and acquisition finance — and the regulatory overlay that now sits on top of every digital lending product.
Representative work
- Facility agreements, security packages and inter-creditor arrangements
- Acquisition and promoter financing
- External commercial borrowings and cross-border security
- NBFC licensing, co-lending and digital lending guidelines
- Securitisation and direct assignment
- Enforcement of security and SARFAESI proceedings
How we are different
Digital lending is where finance, technology and data protection now collide. We advise on all three from one team, which matters when the customer-data flows in a co-lending arrangement have to satisfy the RBI and the DPDP Act simultaneously.
Labour Codes, Employment & Industrial Relations
India’s four labour codes came into force in November 2025, replacing twenty-nine central statutes and changing what an employer owes almost everyone on its payroll. We run this as a dedicated compliance practice for corporates, alongside the employment and industrial relations work that surrounds it.
Representative work
- Labour code applicability and gap assessments across establishments and States
- Wage restructuring, and its cost impact on provident fund, gratuity and bonus
- Appointment letters, fixed-term documentation and standing orders
- Contract labour arrangements and principal-employer risk
- Employment, consultancy and secondment documentation
- ESOP schemes, and the tax and exchange-control questions in them
- POSH policy, internal committee constitution and enquiry conduct
- Workforce restructuring, retrenchment and separation
- Industrial disputes and trade union recognition
How we are different
Most labour code advice arrives as a summary of what changed. A board cannot act on that. We lead with the number — what the new wage definition does to provisioning, establishment by establishment — because that is the decision the board is actually being asked to take.
Employee personal data is the other half of the same file. Monitoring tools, background checks and HR analytics are where DPDP exposure concentrates, and we build the employment position and the privacy position together.
Intellectual Property
Protecting what a business has built, and clearing the way for what it intends to build next.
Representative work
- Trade mark clearance, prosecution, opposition and portfolio strategy
- Copyright, software and content licensing
- Technology transfer, assignment and IP holding structures
- Infringement and passing-off actions, including John Doe relief
- Online brand enforcement, marketplace and domain disputes
- Trade secret protection and departing-employee action
How we are different
Enforcement decisions are commercial ones. We start from what the brand is worth defending and what an injunction would actually achieve, rather than issuing notices that generate correspondence and little else.
Real Estate & Property Disputes
In the NCR in particular, the difference between a good site and a bad one is usually buried in the chain of title and the change-of-land-use record. We look there first.
Representative work
- Title due diligence and searches across NCR authorities
- Sale, development, joint development and revenue-share structures
- Commercial and industrial leasing, licence and fit-out documentation
- RERA registration, compliance and complaints
- Construction contracts, EPC and concession arrangements
- Land acquisition, allotment and authority disputes
How we are different
Title reports that state a conclusion. A diligence exercise that ends in a list of documents not produced, without a view on whether the transaction can proceed, has not been completed.
Company Law, Insolvency & NCLT
A standing practice before the National Company Law Tribunal and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal — in company law disputes as well as in insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings. We act for financial and operational creditors, for corporate debtors, and for acquirers looking at distressed assets where the timetable is unforgiving.
Representative work
- Company law disputes, including oppression and mismanagement
- Section 7 and Section 9 applications and defences
- Committee of creditors advisory and resolution professional support
- Resolution plans and distressed acquisitions
- Avoidance actions and preferential transaction claims
- Personal guarantor proceedings
- Out-of-court restructuring and one-time settlements
How we are different
Insolvency runs on deadlines that do not move. We staff for the timetable rather than the ideal team size, and we say early when a resolution plan is not going to clear the tests it has to clear.
Criminal
Bail, quashing and trial work before the courts of the NCR and of Punjab and Haryana — including the commercial and technology-facing matters that most criminal practices are not equipped to run.
Representative work
- Bail, anticipatory bail and quashing petitions
- Cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery
- Cyber offences under the IT Act and the digital evidence they turn on
- Economic offences and proceedings arising from regulatory action
- Complaints under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act
- Trial and appellate representation
How we are different
A growing share of criminal matters turn on electronic records — server logs, device images, chat exports — and on whether they were collected and certified in a way that will survive objection. We have counsel who can read the technical record as well as the legal one, which is not a common combination at the criminal bar.
Motor Accident Claims
Claims before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, for claimants and for insurers. The law here is largely settled; the outcome turns on the evidence and on whether it was assembled properly at the start.
Representative work
- Claim petitions under the Motor Vehicles Act
- Computation of compensation, dependency and future prospects
- Proof of income and earning capacity, including for the self-employed
- Permanent disability assessment and medical evidence
- Insurer defences on policy breach and third-party liability
- Appeals against tribunal awards
How we are different
Claims are frequently under-pleaded at the outset and cannot be repaired later. We build the record first — the charge sheet, the medical documentation, the proof of income and dependency — because the award follows the evidence, and the evidence is usually available only once.
Taxation
Tax structuring on transactions, indirect tax on operations, and support through assessment and appeal — working alongside your accountants rather than duplicating them.
Representative work
- Transaction and holding-structure tax analysis
- Cross-border characterisation, royalty and fees for technical services
- Withholding obligations on payments to non-residents
- GST advisory on digital and cross-border supply
- Assessment representation, appeals and writ remedies
- Permanent establishment and place-of-effective-management exposure
How we are different
We give a view on the position we would be prepared to defend, and identify separately the positions that are arguable but will be litigated. Boards should be told which one they are choosing.
Startups & Venture Capital
Founders get the same partner attention as institutional clients, on fee arrangements that acknowledge the stage they are at. What we will not do is paper a round without telling you what it costs you later.
Representative work
- Incorporation, founder agreements and vesting
- SAFEs, convertible notes and priced rounds
- ESOP pool design, grants and exercise mechanics
- Flip structures, externalisation and inbound redomiciliation
- Customer, vendor and platform contracting templates that scale
- Regulatory readiness ahead of Series B diligence — including DPDP
How we are different
The privacy and regulatory gaps that surface in Series B diligence were almost always created in the first eighteen months. Fixing them early costs a fraction of what a diligence-driven remediation costs under a signing deadline.
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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.