Our lawyers have vast experience in resolving disputes, for small and large businesses and individual clients engaged in diverse industries and at various forums, commissions and tribunals in India. The members of the litigation team have, over the last three decades, appeared in numerous writ petitions, special leave petitions, civil suits, civil appeals and company matters. The work undertaken ranges, and stems from banking claims, commercial and contractual disputes, corporate litigation, constitutional law challenges, complex tax disputes, IPR infringements, recovery and summary suits, insolvency and criminal matters.
The strategic ability of our litigation lawyers is instrumental in ensuring efficient trials and planning case-management in litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
(“ADR”). The ADR practice conducts commercial and maritime arbitrations under Indian, ICC and UNCITRAL rules as well as advises clients on enforcement of judgments/awards. We also structure dispute resolution contract clauses for inclusion in contracts to ensure effective resolutions. Our litigation team has the experience of handling cases involving extremely complex legal issues. Wearing business hats, the lawyers of the ADR practice have also vast experience in engaging in effective negotiations and resolve commercial disputes out-of-court as well.
The experience includes representation of :
- Indian and foreign companies in both domestic and international arbitrations, both under civil, commercial, energy and maritime disputes with claims up to and in excess of $500 million;
- Several banks in criminal proceedings involving antedating of letters of credits;
- Energy companies in pre-litigation negotiations and successful resolution of commercial claims;
- Foreign companies in successful recovery of money from government entities in procurement contracts;
- Indian companies in criminal actions under the Negotiable Instruments Act;
- Secured creditors in seeking dissolution of public companies;
- Minority shareholders in proceedings at the Company Law Board to prevent oppression and mismanagement by the majority shareholders;
- Chinese and continental corporations arising out of breach of contract of sale of goods contracts.