Our practice stems from an understanding of technological advancements and the resulting risks in India, allowing us to provide proactive counsel. We focus on robust and scalable compliance solutions. Our core services include Policy & Transparency, Risk Mitigation, Internal Governance, and Operational Readiness to ensure entities are prepared.
Our Dispute Resolution team delivers robust, end-to-end representation grounded in comprehensive litigation strategy. Our client representation spans all fora, including Civil and Commercial Courts, High Courts, Tribunals, Statutory Authorities, and the Supreme Court. While strong in South India, we extend this same commitment to excellence pan-India.
We serve as dedicated outside General Counsel, integrating with businesses to provide legally sound operational support. Our practice offers an end-to-end strategic partnership throughout an entity’s life cycle. Key areas of focus include business formation, day-to-day operations and advisory, compliance and governance, as well as transactions and crises management.
Our practice is dedicated to the strategic safeguarding of creative and commercial assets. We provide focused counsel across the entire intellectual property lifecycle, from conception to enforcement. Key areas include Brand Protection for Trademarks, advising on Creative Rights for Copyrights, handling Enforcement & Litigation, and developing internal IP strategies.
This practice addresses the complexities of cross-border trade, offering specialized advisory and dispute resolution services. We advise on compliance with multilateral trade agreements from the World Trade Organization (WTO). We handle matters concerning Customs & Foreign Trade Policy, including import/export controls, licensing, valuation, anti-dumping, and barriers.
We advise high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and their family offices to secure inter-generational wealth transfer and preservation. Key areas include comprehensive Wealth & Succession Planning, such as drafting Wills and Trusts. We also provide Family Office Advisory on corporate structuring and governance, alongside tax-efficient corporate and family restructuring.
We offer specialised expertise in Customs, GST, Income Tax, International Trade, and WTO matters. Our team guides clients from business module ideation to implementation, including structuring, audits, and optimizing supply chains. We represent clients before all judicial and quasi-judicial forums, focusing on complex tax litigation.
With years of the experience representing Clients before the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’), appellate forums, High Courts and Supreme Court & now empaneled to represent the CCI before various forums, we provide strategic guidance and authoritative defense that keeps businesses competitive in regulated markets, including investigations, merger control filings and compliance under India’s evolving competition landscape.
Our unique advantage stems from an inherent understanding of technological advancements and resulting opportunities / risks in India. This helps provide proactive counsel that measure the entities’ strength against the backdrop of several legislations across the world and their potential impact in India.
Our core services ensure robust and scalable compliance:
Our Dispute Resolution team provides robust, end – to – end representation, grounded in comprehensive litigation strategy. Our representation for Clients spreads across fora including, civil & commercial courts, High Courts, tribunals, statutory authorities across India, and the Supreme Court of India.
While maintaining a strong, established presence in South India, we ensure this same level of commitment and excellence is extended pan-India. We leverage a tested and trusted network of local advocates to guarantee consistent quality and timely action in every corner of the country.
We serve as dedicated outside General Counsel, integrating deeply with business to transform vision to viable, legally sound operations, providing a seamless support system. Our General Corporate practice provides end-to-end strategic partnership throughout an entities’ life cycle. Some key areas include:
Transactions and Crises Management
Our practice is dedicated to the strategic safeguarding of creative and commercial assets. We provide focused counsel across the entire intellectual property lifecycle, from conception to enforcement. Some key areas include:
Drawing on decades of experience, our firm offers specialised and unmatched expertise in Customs, GST, Income Tax (Corporate and International taxation), International Trade & WTO, and the erstwhile indirect tax regime. We guide Clients from ideation of a business module to implementation of the transaction (structuring, interpreting provisions, including compliance mandates), audits, optimizing supply chain structures and advising on intricate classification and valuation matters.
We represent Clients before all judicial and quasi-judicial forums, including appellate tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. Our focus is on complex tax litigation, handling significant matters concerning classification, valuation, constitutional validity and export related disputes.
International Trade & Customs
We address the complexities of cross – border trade, offering specialized advisory and dispute resolution services related to:
Private Client Practice
We advise high-net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and their family offices with the objective of securing inter-generational wealth transfer and preservation of wealth. Some key areas include:
Restructuring & Tax: Advising on legal and tax-efficient corporate and family restructuring, including regulatory compliances.
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