Your top choice for legal solutions
Banking and Finance
Our Banking and Finance practice provides comprehensive advocacy for domestic and international banks, corporations, promoters, and investors in diverse transactions including domestic loans, external commercial borrowings, acquisition finance, project finance, structured finance, and refinancing transactions. We offer expertise in negotiating and advising on distressed debt situations, helping stakeholders assess risks in these transactions. Our deep understanding of Indian banking laws and regulations, coupled with our sector specialization, enables us to provide innovative, compliant financing solutions. Our extensive experience with regulators and key banking stakeholders ensures practical, commercially sound legal advice.
Capital Markets
Our Capital Markets practice is a leader in both Indian equity and debt capital markets. We assist clients with compliance, approvals, contracts, and documentation for fundraising activities such as IPOs, rights issues, private placements, QIB placements, FCCBs, Masala Bonds, REITs, and INVITs. We provide guidance on securities laws and regulations from SEBI, RBI, stock exchanges, and government ministries, covering takeovers, buy-backs, delisting, block/bulk trades, secondary share sales or purchases, and securities litigation. Our team is well-regarded by regulators and has been influential in shaping the capital markets landscape in India.
Corporate and Commercial
Our Corporate and Commercial practice offers expert advice on complex corporate and commercial issues to leading companies and financial institutions. We handle a broad spectrum of matters, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, product development, manufacturing, and supply alliances. Our services extend to data privacy and protection, leveraging our expertise in Corporate, Tax, Intellectual Property, Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, and Regulatory areas to provide comprehensive solutions that anticipate issues and formulate successful strategies.
Corporate Restructuring
Our Corporate Restructuring practice combines deep expertise in domestic regulatory frameworks and Indian tax law with sector-specific knowledge to create innovative restructuring strategies. We guide clients through complex strategic, operational, legal, taxation, and economic issues to meet their business objectives. Our experience includes tribunal-sanctioned schemes of arrangement, mergers, demergers, and faster, less tax-efficient contractual spin-offs. We excel at structuring transactions that withstand regulatory scrutiny, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and delivering desired results.
Dispute Resolution
Our Dispute Resolution practice offers comprehensive services across litigation, arbitration, regulatory, and pre-disputes advisory assignments. We represent clients before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, Tribunals, Appellate and Regulatory bodies, and handle complex domestic and international commercial arbitration matters. Our expertise spans banking and finance, insolvency, corporate law, competition law, environmental law, electricity law, data privacy, cyber security, financial services, fraud, and financial crime. We deliver focused, commercial advice and have achieved landmark judgments and arbitration awards for our clients.
Financial Services
Our Financial Services practice provides extensive transactional, operational, regulatory, and advisory services to banks, non-banking financial companies, housing finance companies, microfinance companies, asset management companies, wealth management companies, mutual funds, fintech companies, and other financial institutions. We offer expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals, business transfers, asset transfers, lending, and business models. Our inclusive approach and deep product knowledge enable us to provide effective solutions for complex transactions, making us a leading team in the financial regulatory space.
Estate Planning, Trusts,
and Private Client
Our Private Client practice offers expertise in trusts, taxation, wills, probate, regulatory approvals, and corporate and securities laws. We advise national and international clients, including large promoters, global Indian families, banks, financial institutions, trustees, family offices, and HNIs. Our services include drafting family constitutions, restructuring family businesses, creating trusts and wills, migration of residency, and change of citizenship. With over 100 years of experience, we deliver sustainable solutions that honor family values and meet the needs of our clients’ estates.
Investment Funds
Our Investment Funds practice offers holistic legal, regulatory, and tax solutions, advising clients on fund formation, structuring, and lifecycle management across asset classes such as seed funds, angel funds, venture funds, private equity, infrastructure funds, debt funds, credit funds, special situation funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, secondary funds, REITs, INVITs, and mutual funds. We anticipate future client needs and provide innovative fund solutions, drawing on our deep understanding of global trends and market cycles.
Privacy and Data Protection
Our Privacy and Data Protection practice addresses the evolving technological, business, and legal issues related to data privacy and security. We help clients comply with regulations, conduct awareness sessions, implement customized solutions, and handle cross-border data transfers, data security, breach notifications, and government access requests. Our expertise covers blockchain, IoT, cloud, AI, and other niche sectors, providing comprehensive advice across regulatory compliance, transaction-related matters, policy drafting, and defense against investigations.
Regulatory Practice
Our Regulatory Practice assists businesses in navigating the changing legislative landscape and regulatory framework in India. We advise on licensing requirements, corporate compliance, foreign investments, securities regulations, cross-border mergers, restructuring, and liquidation transactions. Our team represents clients before regulators such as SEBI, RBI, Directorate of Enforcement, judicial fora, and various regulatory bodies, providing strategic advice to fulfill regulatory requirements and manage risks associated with doing business with government entities.
Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
Our Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) practice offers expert advice on regulatory, policy, and compliance issues, information technology, outsourcing, data privacy and protection, and contractual and interconnection agreements. We handle media contracts, television show licensing, and joint ventures in the media sector. Our TMT lawyers provide tailored, industry-specific advice to technology companies, media houses, and telecom operators, drawing on significant regulatory and transactional experience to deliver strategic and commercial solutions.
Your top choice for legal solutions
Banking and Finance
Our Banking and Finance practice provides comprehensive advocacy for domestic and international banks, corporations, promoters, and investors in diverse transactions including domestic loans, external commercial borrowings, acquisition finance, project finance, structured finance, and refinancing transactions. We offer expertise in negotiating and advising on distressed debt situations, helping stakeholders assess risks in these transactions. Our deep understanding of Indian banking laws and regulations, coupled with our sector specialization, enables us to provide innovative, compliant financing solutions. Our extensive experience with regulators and key banking stakeholders ensures practical, commercially sound legal advice.
Capital Markets
Our Capital Markets practice is a leader in both Indian equity and debt capital markets. We assist clients with compliance, approvals, contracts, and documentation for fundraising activities such as IPOs, rights issues, private placements, QIB placements, FCCBs, Masala Bonds, REITs, and INVITs. We provide guidance on securities laws and regulations from SEBI, RBI, stock exchanges, and government ministries, covering takeovers, buy-backs, delisting, block/bulk trades, secondary share sales or purchases, and securities litigation. Our team is well-regarded by regulators and has been influential in shaping the capital markets landscape in India.
Corporate and Commercial
Our Corporate and Commercial practice offers expert advice on complex corporate and commercial issues to leading companies and financial institutions. We handle a broad spectrum of matters, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, product development, manufacturing, and supply alliances. Our services extend to data privacy and protection, leveraging our expertise in Corporate, Tax, Intellectual Property, Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, and Regulatory areas to provide comprehensive solutions that anticipate issues and formulate successful strategies.
Corporate Restructuring
Our Corporate Restructuring practice combines deep expertise in domestic regulatory frameworks and Indian tax law with sector-specific knowledge to create innovative restructuring strategies. We guide clients through complex strategic, operational, legal, taxation, and economic issues to meet their business objectives. Our experience includes tribunal-sanctioned schemes of arrangement, mergers, demergers, and faster, less tax-efficient contractual spin-offs. We excel at structuring transactions that withstand regulatory scrutiny, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and delivering desired results.
Dispute Resolution
Our Dispute Resolution practice offers comprehensive services across litigation, arbitration, regulatory, and pre-disputes advisory assignments. We represent clients before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, Tribunals, Appellate and Regulatory bodies, and handle complex domestic and international commercial arbitration matters. Our expertise spans banking and finance, insolvency, corporate law, competition law, environmental law, electricity law, data privacy, cyber security, financial services, fraud, and financial crime. We deliver focused, commercial advice and have achieved landmark judgments and arbitration awards for our clients.
Financial Services
Our Financial Services practice provides extensive transactional, operational, regulatory, and advisory services to banks, non-banking financial companies, housing finance companies, microfinance companies, asset management companies, wealth management companies, mutual funds, fintech companies, and other financial institutions. We offer expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals, business transfers, asset transfers, lending, and business models. Our inclusive approach and deep product knowledge enable us to provide effective solutions for complex transactions, making us a leading team in the financial regulatory space.
Estate Planning, Trusts,
and Private Client
Our Private Client practice offers expertise in trusts, taxation, wills, probate, regulatory approvals, and corporate and securities laws. We advise national and international clients, including large promoters, global Indian families, banks, financial institutions, trustees, family offices, and HNIs. Our services include drafting family constitutions, restructuring family businesses, creating trusts and wills, migration of residency, and change of citizenship. With over 100 years of experience, we deliver sustainable solutions that honor family values and meet the needs of our clients’ estates.
Investment Funds
Our Investment Funds practice offers holistic legal, regulatory, and tax solutions, advising clients on fund formation, structuring, and lifecycle management across asset classes such as seed funds, angel funds, venture funds, private equity, infrastructure funds, debt funds, credit funds, special situation funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, secondary funds, REITs, INVITs, and mutual funds. We anticipate future client needs and provide innovative fund solutions, drawing on our deep understanding of global trends and market cycles.
Privacy and Data Protection
Our Privacy and Data Protection practice addresses the evolving technological, business, and legal issues related to data privacy and security. We help clients comply with regulations, conduct awareness sessions, implement customized solutions, and handle cross-border data transfers, data security, breach notifications, and government access requests. Our expertise covers blockchain, IoT, cloud, AI, and other niche sectors, providing comprehensive advice across regulatory compliance, transaction-related matters, policy drafting, and defense against investigations.
Regulatory Practice
Our Regulatory Practice assists businesses in navigating the changing legislative landscape and regulatory framework in India. We advise on licensing requirements, corporate compliance, foreign investments, securities regulations, cross-border mergers, restructuring, and liquidation transactions. Our team represents clients before regulators such as SEBI, RBI, Directorate of Enforcement, judicial fora, and various regulatory bodies, providing strategic advice to fulfill regulatory requirements and manage risks associated with doing business with government entities.
Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
Our Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) practice offers expert advice on regulatory, policy, and compliance issues, information technology, outsourcing, data privacy and protection, and contractual and interconnection agreements. We handle media contracts, television show licensing, and joint ventures in the media sector. Our TMT lawyers provide tailored, industry-specific advice to technology companies, media houses, and telecom operators, drawing on significant regulatory and transactional experience to deliver strategic and commercial solutions.