Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Our Partners have extensive experience in advising and representing clients in a wide range of disputes arising from commercial contracts, shareholder and partnership conflicts, construction and infrastructure projects, real estate transactions, intellectual property rights, mergers and amalgamations, debt recovery, corporate insolvency, employment law, trust disputes, and matters relating to succession and inheritance

Our partners have extensive courtroom and tribunal experience and regularly appear before the High Court of Karnataka, High Courts across various States, District and Commercial Courts, Domestic and International Arbitral Tribunals, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRT), Consumer Courts, and other specialist tribunals and statutory authorities

We offer services across the entire spectrum of dispute resolution including pre-litigation advisory, strategy and pleadings, trial, arguments, appeal, and execution. We handle a variety of matters in various judicial and quasi-judicial fora, including:

Contractual and Commercial Disputes – Advising and representing clients on contractual claims, injunctions, specific performance, and disputes arising from general contracts and agreements including from distributorship, franchise, licensing, non-compete, and non-solicitation agreements, assisting in enforcement of domestic and foreign decrees/judgements across various courts in India

Shareholder and Partnership Disputes – Advising and representing minority and majority shareholders, investors and corporations in disputes involving corporate governance, mismanagement and oppression.

Construction and Infrastructure Disputes – Advising and representing private contractors and Public Sector Undertakings in arbitrations (domestic and international), civil and commercial suits, writ petitions and other legal proceedings in disputes involving claims for damages, delay, termination, invocation of bank guarantee, price variation and escalation, extra works, force majeure, frustration, etc.

Real Estate and Property Disputes - Advising on disputes related to property, declarations, injunctions, specific performance, succession, sale, lease, mortgage, joint development, and damages claims.

Intellectual Property Rights – Trademark and copyright infringement litigation and contentious proceedings, theft of confidential information, counterfeiting, non-disparagement suits, etc.

Mergers and Amalgamations – Advising and representing companies in court proceedings relating to approval of scheme of arrangements including, mergers, de-mergers and amalgamations.

Debt Recovery – Actions under SARFAESI Act and under the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act.

Corporate insolvency – Representing Operational and Financial Creditors, advising the Committee of Creditors or the Insolvency Resolution Professional during the implementation of the resolution plan or the liquidation process.

Tortious Claims - Handling matters involving negligence, defamation, and related tort claims.

Employment law –  Disputes arising out of employment agreements, severance agreements, freelance agreements, Industrial Disputes Act and Shops & Commercial Establishments Act.

Trust disputes – Disputes amongst trustees in private as well as public trusts

Writ litigation – Writ Petitions challenging constitutional validity of statues and rules, challenges to notifications, orders, circulars, etc and administrative law related writ proceedings.

Succession and Inheritance – Partition suits, testamentary suits, probate and succession.