Areas of Practice
Arbitration
Armed Forces Disputes
Banking And Finance
Civil & Criminal Dispute Resolution
Consumer Protection
Corporate Compliances
Environment
Insolvency & Restructuring
Intellectual Property Rights
Matrimonial & Family Law
Pre-dispute Advisory
Property Law
Service Law
White Collar Criminal Proceedings
Arbitration
We have significant experience of conducting arbitration proceedings under and have represented varied parties in arbitrations arising in a broad range of industry sectors, including construction, energy, international trade and investments, media and communications, technology and telecommunications. We are particularly recognised for our expertise in shareholder and investment disputes. Our experience also includes court litigation in support of arbitration.
Armed Forces Disputes
Our Team has been actively involved in Army law practice over the years. The lawyers in Our Team have filed various Original Applications on behalf of the aggrieved officers, before the Hon’ble Armed Forces Tribunal and various Writ Petitions and Appeals before the Hon’ble High Court and the Hon’ble Supreme Court. Our Team has also been instrumental in pronouncement of various landmark judgments shaping the law vis-à-vis armed forces personnel.
Banking And Finance
Our team has wide experience across various streams of the banking sector. We come from diverse backgrounds and qualifications, including working with other law firms and in-house teams of leading Indian banks. This versatility of work helps us serve our clients from diverse backgrounds and needs. We also provide service related to acquiring domestic loans, external commercial borrowing, acquisition finance, project finance, structured finance, and re-financing transactions. Our team is also utilised in negotiating or advising on distressed debt situations and catering to various stakeholders in assessing the risks in such transactions under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 [SARFAESI Act, 2002] and representing them before the Debt Recovery Tribunals.
We bring expertise on the table, and we understand the diverse needs of our clients to provide both legal and commercial solutions. We are well positioned to respond to changing market conditions and to offer pragmatic solutions with our innovative thinking. Our team is hands on with the evolving legal landscape and works alongside our financial regulatory, insolvency, litigation, and other specialists to offer personalised solutions.
Civil & Criminal Dispute Resolution
Through our Litigation practice, we advise and represent clients in cross-border litigation, international arbitration, and investigations. These cases vary from ad hoc assistance on specific financial issues to major investigations undertaken jointly with the legal teams. Our multi-disciplinary litigation practice represents clients facing unusually challenging, high-stakes legal disputes. The deep experience of our team’s coupled with the broader capabilities of Our Team gives us a unique ability to help our clients navigate through difficult situations.
Our Team has been actively involved in civil and criminal litigation and dispute resolution practice over the years. The lawyers in our team have represented a range of clients including individuals, corporate entities, government bodies, directors and other institutions in different matters before the courts of law in India, on a variety of matters including but not limited to:
- Suits in the matters of disputes relating to property, succession, sale, lease, mortgage, joint development transactions and damages claims etc.
- Bail Applications, Discharge Applications, Trial etc. before the lower courts and the appellate courts.
- Writ litigations including PILs, Appeals, Original Side Suits etc. before the Hon’ble High Courts and Special Leave Petitions, Appeals, Writ Petitions including PILs etc. before the Supreme Court.
- Prosecution, injunctions and defensive actions relating to infringement of patent, trademarks, copyright, design and confidential information in relation to intellectual property disputes.
- Actions in tort including negligence and defamation.
Consumer Protection
Our Team holds key expertise in the area of Consumer Protection. Our Team has been successful in addressing the grievances of the Consumers by way of filing appropriate Consumer Complaints before the Hon’ble District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Hon’ble State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions, National State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions. Our Team has also been actively involved in filing Special Leave Petitions and Appeals before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, to ensure that the grievances of the consumers are appropriately addressed. Our Team has been instrumental and successful in ensuring relief in a number of Buyer-Builder Cases, Medical Negligence cases etc.
Corporate Compliances
VP Legal as a firm has built expertise to tackle the wide range of issue and concerns that can challenge any organization operating in today’s complex competitive environment. Our Team provides guidance to domestic and international clients on matters relating to general corporate compliance including but not limited to investment regulations, sectoral caps and regulatory issues/compliances. Our Team also actively advises and enable clients to deal with trade related issues which directly impact foreign investments in India.
Our Team advises and assists clients on entry strategy, legal structuring, assistance in obtaining approval/clarification from FIPB/RBI, or other Governmental Authorities, as applicable, assistance in incorporation of legal entities, obtaining various registrations, licenses, approvals, permissions, etc., assistance in compliance of various laws/regulations, as applicable, including secretarial compliance, conducting legal audits, drafting, negotiation and finalization of various vendor contracts, services contracts, etc.
Environment
India’s evolving legal and regulatory framework requires a complex web of environmental laws to be complied with. We excel at negotiating diverse environment-related issues with our clients and we advise them on all matters related to compliance with environmental laws; we also represent them at the Supreme Court of India, National Green Tribunal, before state pollution control boards and other courts/quasi-judicial authorities. We handle matters related to pollution control, consents and clearances, wildlife protection, biodiversity, forests, climate change, water conservation and resource efficiency.
Insolvency & Restructuring
Our Team advises and represents various creditors, debtors, insolvency professionals and resolution applicants in the proceedings involving re- structuring, liquidation and winding up of businesses under the Indian Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code before the Hon’ble National Company Law Tribunal across the country, Hon’ble National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. Our team undertakes giving professional advice on the various compliances required to establish businesses especially startups, in a most efficacious and time bound manner.
We have successfully represented various financial creditors in representing themselves before the NCLT and the NCLAT. Amongst the most important cases that we have initiated is that of representing home buyers as financial creditors before the NCLT.
Our Team also enjoys expertise in various matters related to the provisions and processes under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, rights and obligations during the moratorium period and the insolvency resolution process, negotiation, preparation and finalization of restructuring plans, the implementation of insolvent liquidations and voluntary winding-ups etc.
Intellectual Property Rights
VP Legal provides its clients with counselling, advising, representation before courts of law, drafting, negotiating in matters related to copyright and trademarks among other issues related to intellectual property. We strive to provide holistic advice to our clients with practical, comprehensive and innovative troubleshooting mechanisms.
Our team also focuses on acting as trusted advisers on issues such as investments, market entry, business model structuring, and partnerships and strategic litigation (including cross border disputes).
Our work frequently requires us to advise on areas such as e-commerce, data protection, financial service regulation shared mobility, media and broadcasting and logistics. Our team is noted for efficient handling of all kinds of criminal, corporate & commercial litigations and disputes in different jurisdictions involving technology and intellectual property. It provides clients with creative and result-oriented litigation and arbitration counsel. Our team leverages innovation and technology to become more focused and efficient in providing solutions. This allows us to offer clients end-to-end solutions, deliver cost-effective and time-efficient services, and display increased quality & transparency during a transaction or dispute.
Matrimonial & Family Law
VP Legal handles all aspects related to matrimonial and family law matters including but not limited to divorce, protection against domestic violence, child custody and adoption, maintenance, property distribution, wills and represents its clients before the Family Courts and other concerned forums pan India. We endeavour, at all times, to ensure that our clients receive expeditious solutions to their personal problems on various sensitive issues, which are tailor made to meet their specific requirements. Over the years, VP Legal has worked on various such cases that set precedent in the field of matrimonial and family law.
Pre-dispute Advisory
Our clients draw upon our knowledge and dispute experiences for strategic advice, independent analysis, and objective expert evidence.
From the onset of a dispute through to resolution, we help our clients make well-informed decisions. We advise some of the world’s leading financial institutions, large corporations, and their executives and directors. They trust us to guide them through their most significant litigation challenges.
We help our clients implement measures to ensure that, wherever possible, prevent disputes. If a dispute arises, we ensure that they are equipped with the resources, experience, and knowledge to reach a prompt and successful resolution.
When a potential dispute arises, we assist clients in determining whether to negotiate a settlement or escalate the dispute. If pursuing a settlement is the best way forward, we represent our clients in negotiating an optimum outcome.
Property Law
Lawyers at VP Legal have extensive experience in various aspects of property law including drafting, conveyancing as well as administrative procedures involved in matters related to commercial and residential properties. VP legal handles matters including reviewing contracts and ancillary documents, undertaking due-diligences, attending to settlements and providing all sorts of legal assistance in property matters.
Service Law
Our Team holds key expertise in Service Law matters and has been able to assist and enable a number of clients to address their grievances before the Hon’ble High Courts, Administrative Tribunals and before the Hon’ble Supreme Court. The team has also assisted the Courts of Law in various landmark cases in the matters of termination of service of Vice-Chancellors, Professors, CRPF Personnel etc., to name a few. The team has time and again exhibited and demonstrated its ability to take the cases to its logical consequence in a timely manner to ensure the best results, in the most effective way.
White Collar Criminal Proceedings
We advise our clients on all aspects of such criminal investigations and proceedings, whether at an institutional or individual level in view of the growingly complex framework of criminal laws and rising prosecutions associated with white collar crime are increasing risks associated with running ever-complicated businesses in India.
White collar crime in India usually finds its genesis in anti-bribery and corruption laws; corporate and accounting fraud; insider trading; data privacy, protection, and security; corporate compliances; and money laundering. We have extensive experience in representing clients in white collar crime matters both at a preventative and prosecution stages.
We help our clients to create appropriate risk mitigation strategies, defence in investigations, criminal trials and appellate proceedings before courts, corporate investigations and general advisory in relation to wrongdoings attributed to promoters and other employees, proceedings to protect personal liberty, blacklisting proceedings and cancellation of contracts.