Practice Area
Litigation, Pre Litigation, and Cross Border Litigation
The firm has dedicated teams that regularly represent its clients in the various courts and fora across India, including on highly specialised and complex international trade issues, such as GSP, Certificates of Origin, unreasonable restrictions in violation of trade agreements. Members of the Firm have successfully handled and advised on cases in several foreign jurisdictions in collaboration with local law firms, including in the USA, UK, Italy, France and Singapore and have provided and arranged expert witness before foreign courts and tribunals on questions of Indian laws and regulations. Members of the firm have prepared and appeared in several landmark Constitutional cases decided by the Supreme Court of India, on dissolution of assembly, powers of Governor, powers of Speaker, Election Petitions, anti defection law, high profile prevention of corruption cases, including the first ever mid night hearing granted by the Supreme Court of India in a Constitutional challenge, which led to our client being installed as Chief Minister of Karnataka. The most significant specialisation of the Firm lies in advising and undertaking pre litigation strategy and steps to obtain viable solutions for clients, especially involving key foreign investments in India, to avoid costly and time consuming litigation wherever possible, and also in order to avoid putting a foreign investor in position adversarial to the government and its agencies. Dispute avoidance is the corner stone of Firm's approach. Credibility, goodwill and stature and ability to talk to the right audience to find solutions has been at the foundation of the Firm being able to achieve a high success rate.
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