Our areas of practice reflect the legal and regulatory needs of complex corporate, infrastructure, and institutional matters.
The Firm advises and represents clients in matters relating to white-collar crime, economic offences, and corporate criminal liability, including proceedings arising from alleged non-compliance with labour, taxation, and corporate regulatory frameworks. The Firm regularly acts in prosecutions and defence under statutes such as the Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, Legal Metrology Act, Companies Act, Income-tax Act, Provident Funds Act, Negotiable Instruments Act, and other allied legislations.
The Firm has significant experience representing clients before investigative and enforcement authorities, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The Firm has acted for a leading steel company in a CBI investigation involving allegations of financial mismanagement and diversion of funds. The Firm also advises on and handles matters under the Information Technology Act, 2000, as well as offences under the Indian Penal Code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and other penal statutes.
The Firm’s Senior Partner has been in active criminal practice since 1986 and has appeared in a wide range of Sessions Cases involving serious and complex criminal offences, bringing extensive trial and appellate experience to criminal litigation.
The Firm regularly advises clients on issues arising under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), including pre-investigation and investigation strategy, representation in proceedings before the Enforcement Directorate, challenges to provisional attachment and confirmation of alleged proceeds of crime, and conduct of trials. The Firm routinely appears before the Adjudicating Authority and Appellate Tribunal under the PMLA at New Delhi, as well as before the Special Courts constituted for PMLA offences.
The Firm appears regularly before the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka, across all three benches, representing corporates and individuals in criminal petitions, revision petitions, bail applications, and petitions seeking quashing of proceedings. The Firm also represents clients before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in matters concerning economic offences and white-collar crime, and before Special Courts constituted under various statutory regimes.
We advise and represent contractors, infrastructure developers, EPC companies, and corporate entities in matters relating to government procurement and public tenders at the Central, State, and PSU levels. Our practice covers the entire lifecycle of tender processes, including bid structuring, eligibility and technical qualification issues, evaluation disputes, blacklisting and debarment proceedings, and contract execution–related disputes.
We regularly assist clients in strategizing and prosecuting challenges to tender conditions, wrongful rejection of bids, and arbitrary actions of procuring authorities before the High Court of Karnataka and other appropriate forums. We have also successfully advised on resolution of disputes arising from fraudulent bidding practices, suppression or misrepresentation of material facts by competing bidders, and termination of government contracts, ensuring protection of our clients’ commercial and reputational interests.
We advise companies, promoters, and financial institutions on complex corporate and commercial matters, including corporate structuring, shareholder disputes, governance advisory, and insolvency-related proceedings. Our practice combines strategic advisory with high-stakes litigation, encompassing shareholder actions, oppression and mismanagement proceedings, share transfer disputes, and winding-up petitions before the Civil Courts, the National Company Law Tribunal, and the High Court of Karnataka.
We have extensive experience in managing merger and acquisition–related disputes, particularly those arising from legacy issues involving erstwhile promoters, including fraud, suppression, and concealment of material facts. We assist clients in navigating sensitive transactional disputes through legally rigorous and commercially effective resolution strategies.
We represent corporates, financial institutions, promoters, and high-net-worth individuals in complex civil, commercial, and regulatory disputes across multiple forums. Our litigation practice covers disputes arising from commercial contracts, infrastructure and project-related issues, shareholder and partnership conflicts, recovery proceedings, and enforcement actions.
We regularly appear before the Civil Courts, Commercial Courts, National Company Law Tribunal, High Court of Karnataka, and other statutory and quasi-judicial authorities. Our approach is strategy-driven and outcome-oriented, combining rigorous legal analysis with practical dispute management. We also advise on pre-litigation strategy, risk assessment, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, with a focus on achieving timely and commercially viable outcomes for our clients.
We advise developers, infrastructure companies, investors, and financial institutions on legal issues arising across the lifecycle of infrastructure and real estate projects. Our practice spans land acquisition and due diligence, title and regulatory clearances, project structuring, development agreements, EPC and concession arrangements, and financing-related documentation.
We regularly represent clients in disputes relating to land ownership and possession, right of way, easements, project delays, termination of contracts, and regulatory actions. We appear before the Civil Courts, Commercial Courts, Revenue Authorities, High Court of Karnataka, and other statutory forums. Our approach integrates transactional advisory with dispute resolution, ensuring legally sound and commercially efficient outcomes, particularly for large-scale infrastructure, industrial, and real estate developments.
We advise and represent industries, project developers, and authorities on compliance with India’s environmental regulatory framework, including obligations arising from international climate commitments and domestic environmental legislations governing forests, wildlife, coastal zones, air, and water. Our practice focuses on ensuring regulatory compliance at the project planning, approval, and operational stages, including adherence to statutory procedures and environmental safeguards.
We represent clients in proceedings arising from alleged non-compliance with environmental laws, whether triggered by regulatory action, public interest litigation, or third-party intervention. Guided by the principle of sustainable development, we adopt a balanced approach aimed at protecting environmental interests while safeguarding our clients’ commercial and operational objectives.
Our lawyers regularly appear before the National Green Tribunal, the High Courts, the Supreme Court of India, statutory authorities constituted under environmental enactments, and criminal courts in matters involving environmental offences. We also advise on and challenge laws, rules, regulations, notifications, circulars, and administrative actions on grounds of statutory non-compliance, procedural irregularities, and constitutional infirmities.
We advise and represent employers, industrial establishments, and corporate entities on all aspects of industrial and labour law compliance and dispute management. Our practice covers employment structuring, service conditions, disciplinary proceedings, workforce rationalisation, retrenchment, closure and compliance with central and state labour legislations, including the Factories Act, occupational safety and health regulations, and the evolving wage and labour codes.
We regularly represent managements in industrial disputes, conciliation proceedings, and adjudication before Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunals, and other statutory authorities. Our lawyers also appear before the High Court of Karnataka and other appellate forums in matters involving challenges to awards, enforcement actions, and constitutional issues arising under labour and employment laws.
Our senior partner has been advising and representing industrial establishments on matters under the Factories Act and labour laws since 1986, bringing decades of practical and strategic experience to complex compliance and dispute-resolution matters. Our approach is both preventive and dispute-focused, assisting clients in mitigating labour risks through robust compliance frameworks, strategic advisory, and effective representation while ensuring business continuity.
Through our dedicated consultancy vertical, Assent Consultancy, we provide strategic regulatory and government advisory services to corporates and industrial undertakings across sectors. Our advisory practice focuses on securing regulatory approvals, navigating government policy and administrative frameworks, and ensuring end-to-end statutory compliance at both the Central and State levels.
We have advised and assisted steel plants, cement manufacturing units, and renewable energy projects in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in obtaining approvals from high-level government committees and regulatory authorities. Our services include regulatory due diligence, structured engagement with government departments, compliance planning, and advisory on policy-driven approvals critical to project development and operational continuity.
Our integrated legal and regulatory approach enables clients to efficiently manage complex approval processes, mitigate regulatory exposure, and achieve timely, sustainable outcomes.
We represent clients in high-value and complex commercial disputes under the framework of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, which provides for specialised courts and expedited procedures for resolution of commercial matters. Our partners are recognised for their expertise in this area and have conducted training sessions and professional programmes on the Commercial Courts regime.
Our lawyers combine strong legal acumen with a practical understanding of business and commercial realities, enabling us to deliver solutions that are both legally sound and commercially effective. We act for a diverse client base, including SMEs, MSMEs, large conglomerates, and multinational corporations.
Our commercial disputes practice covers, inter alia, breach of contract claims, disputes under the Sale of Goods Act, accounting and financial disputes, partnership and shareholder conflicts, enforcement of non-compete and restrictive covenants, and disputes arising out of joint venture and collaboration agreements.
We advise developers, investors, industrial consumers, and government agencies on the legal, regulatory, and policy aspects of conventional and renewable energy projects across the entire project lifecycle. Working closely with our regulatory and government advisory vertical, our practice integrates project advisory with policy and regulatory compliance under applicable electricity and energy laws.
Our work spans wind, solar, hybrid, and green hydrogen projects, including project structuring, land and title diligence, statutory and regulatory approvals, grid connectivity, power evacuation, and ongoing operational compliance. We have assisted clients in the development and establishment of over 3 GW of energy and renewable energy projects and act for leading energy companies and developers.
In parallel, we regularly advise government departments, regulatory authorities, and public bodies on the formulation of rules, regulations, guidelines, and policy frameworks under electricity and energy laws. Our senior partner has been advising government agencies and industry participants in the energy sector for over three decades, and energy regulation continues to be one of our core practice areas.
This integrated legal, regulatory, and policy-driven approach enables both public and private stakeholders to navigate complex approval processes, implement projects efficiently, and ensure long-term regulatory compliance.
We advise corporates, startups, and entrepreneurs on the protection, enforcement, and commercialisation of intellectual property assets. Our practice covers trademarks, patents, copyrights, designs, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights, including portfolio management, licensing, assignments, and intellectual property due diligence in commercial and transactional matters.
We represent clients in intellectual property litigation involving trademark infringement and passing off, patent disputes, copyright infringement, misuse of confidential information, and breach of licensing arrangements. Our lawyers regularly appear before the Civil Courts and the High Court of Karnataka in IP enforcement actions, including matters involving interim and final reliefs.
Our approach integrates strong litigation capability with commercial insight, enabling clients to protect, enforce, and derive value from their intellectual property while effectively managing legal and business risks.
We advise and represent clients in domestic and international arbitration as well as other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including mediation and conciliation. Our practice covers disputes arising out of commercial contracts, infrastructure and EPC agreements, shareholder and joint venture arrangements, supply and service contracts, and investment-related disputes.
We act for corporates, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals in arbitration proceedings under institutional and ad hoc frameworks. Our lawyers regularly appear before arbitral tribunals and courts in matters relating to interim measures, appointment and challenge of arbitrators, jurisdictional issues, enforcement and setting aside of arbitral awards under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
Our approach is strategy-driven and commercially focused, assisting clients in selecting appropriate dispute resolution mechanisms and achieving efficient, cost-effective, and enforceable outcomes.
We advise companies, technology-driven businesses, and digital platforms on legal and regulatory issues arising from the development, deployment, and commercialisation of technology. Our practice covers information technology laws, data protection and privacy, cybersecurity, electronic commerce, digital contracts, and technology-enabled services.
We assist clients with technology transactions, including software licensing, SaaS and cloud arrangements, technology transfer, platform terms and conditions, and compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks. We also represent clients in technology-related disputes involving data breaches, contractual claims, misuse of confidential information, and intellectual property issues arising in digital and technology-intensive environments.
Our approach combines legal rigour with a strong understanding of technological and commercial realities, enabling clients to manage regulatory risk, protect digital assets, and scale technology-driven operations with confidence.
We advise infrastructure developers, renewable energy companies, industrial undertakings, and public authorities on land acquisition and land aggregation for large-scale projects under applicable Central and State legislations. Our practice includes advisory under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR Act), acquisitions through statutory authorities such as the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB), and other State-specific acquisition frameworks.
Working closely with our infrastructure, energy, and government advisory practices, we assist clients with legal due diligence, title verification, land aggregation strategies for renewable energy projects, and coordination with multiple landowners and stakeholders. We also advise on right-of-way, access rights, and easements for transmission lines, substations, access roads, and project infrastructure, ensuring alignment with project development and commissioning timelines.
We advise on compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement obligations, consent requirements, and statutory compliances critical to project implementation. Our lawyers regularly represent clients before Land Acquisition Officers, KIADB and other development authorities, revenue authorities, and courts in disputes relating to acquisition proceedings, compensation determination, procedural challenges, possession, and right-of-way issues.
Our integrated legal and regulatory approach enables clients to mitigate land-related risks, manage regulatory interfaces effectively, and ensure timely execution of infrastructure, industrial, and renewable energy projects.
We advise and represent individuals, high-net-worth individuals, corporates, and institutions in a wide range of civil and property-related matters. Our practice covers disputes relating to title and possession, ownership and boundary issues, easements and right-of-way, landlord–tenant matters, partition and succession disputes, specific performance of contracts, and enforcement of property rights.
We have significant experience in handling high-value civil disputes involving HNIs and complex family and HUF partition matters, including disputes involving substantial immovable assets and inter-generational property arrangements. Our practice benefits from long-standing senior advocacy experience in managing sensitive, high-stakes civil litigation.
We regularly appear before Civil Courts, Commercial Courts, Revenue Authorities, and the High Court of Karnataka in suits for declaration, injunction, recovery of possession, damages, and related interim proceedings. We also advise on property due diligence, title risk assessment, and strategic documentation support.
Our approach combines depth of advocacy with practical property advisory, enabling clients to resolve disputes efficiently while protecting long-term ownership, legacy, and commercial interests.
Our firm provides strategic and result-oriented legal services in the domain of Banking and Financial Laws. We advise banks, financial institutions, NBFCs, and borrowers on regulatory compliance, loan documentation, debt recovery, enforcement of security interests, restructuring, and insolvency proceedings. With a thorough understanding of statutes such as the SARFAESI Act, RBI regulations, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, we represent clients before DRTs, DRATs, NCLTs, civil courts, and other regulatory authorities. Our approach combines technical precision with practical insight to protect financial interests, mitigate risk, and ensure efficient resolution of disputes.
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