The firm has an active corporate commercial practice which is uniquely comprised of experienced lawyers that do both transactional work as well as have years of experience in corporate and commercial litigation. The partners of the firm are on the board of directors and board committees of several listed and unlisted companies.
Corporate
The firm regularly acts and advises clients on:
- General Corporate Advice
- Mergers and Acquisitions (Both Private as well as Public)
- Joint Ventures
- Business Transfer
- Asset Purchase
- Private Equity
- Initial investments in Start-up Companies
- Cross Border Investments and Exits in and from Indian Companies.
- Brown field Acquisitions through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy process
The firm’s advice extends to and includes entry and exit strategy, corporate governance related issues, tax beneficent structures, FEMA and its underlying regulations, SEBI Regulations, compliance with the listing agreements of various stock exchanges in India etc.
Over the years the firm has been and continues to be involved in advising and acting in some of the largest and most high profile shareholder disputes arising out of shareholder agreements, oppression and mismanagement actions, family disputes involving some of the largest Indian listed companies before the NCLT, NCLAT, SEBI, various Indian Courts and in arbitration.
The firm’s experience spans over various industries including but not limited to manufacturing, cement, paper and pulp, hotel, publications, journals, pharmaceutical, shipping, energy projects etc.
A number of its’ partners serve as independent directors on the boards of directors of public companies listed on both the Bombay Stock Exchange and/or the National Stock Exchange.
Commercial
The firm regularly advices, negotiates and helps its clients enter into contractual relationships to fulfill their operational needs, this spans contracts of varying nature including but not limited to tolling agreements, long term supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, high sea sale agreements, services agreements, service level agreements, outsourcing agreements cross borders sale and purchase agreements involving letters of credit, bills of exchange, freight forwarding agreements, factoring agreements etc.