Our expertise in Banking and Finance covers various aspects including but not limited to acquisition, restructuring, external commercial borrowings, asset securitisation, Consortium, Credit & Security Documentation, Negotiable Instruments, Guarantees, Mortgage, Pledge and Lien Agreements, ESCROW agreements, Loan Agreements, Project Finance, insurance and Legal Opinion regarding various regulatory issues pertaining to the area.
We provide opinions on all matters pertaining to consumer rights and dispute in connection with either deficiency in service or defect in product; make representations before SCDRC and NCDRC on behalf of our clients
The Contract management team at LexArtis is adept at systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution and analysis for maximising operational and financial performance and minimising risk to our clients. The team ensures seamless execution of supply agreements, master agreements, statements of work and NDAs. In addition to providing contracting support, we maintain our clients’ contract repository, contract uploading and meta-data entry; we also track renewals and rebates, and manage contract compliance and reporting.
Our corporate and commercial practice includes advising our clients on mergers, joint ventures, acquisitions and sales of controlling interest, minority sales and investment, pre-IPO placements, takeovers, management buy-outs, business transfers and asset sales, business contracts, promotional contracts, purchase &supply agreements, outsourcing, project development and management agreements. Our scope of work also includes incorporating companies and providing advice on a day-to-day basis on corporate, regulatory, governance, operational and structuring matters.
Our team has wide-ranging experience in representing clients’ criminal matters across different courts, including Supreme Court of India, High Courts and District Courts. Our criminal litigation practice covers areas like White Collar Crimes, Economic Offences; Quashing of FIRs, Bails, Trial; Criminal Complaints, Writs, Revision, Appeals; Defamation Cases; Prevention of Money Laundering Act; Prevention of Corruption Act; Narcotics and Drugs Violations.
Our team is trained to work efficiently in order to provide accurate legal representation to our clients in commercial disputes, regulatory matters, and criminal proceedings. We provide expert advice at every step of the process, including litigation and alternative dispute resolution. We handle a number of corporate, civil and criminal matters before various courts, quasi-judicial authorities, and tribunals, including the Supreme Court of India, High Courts of various States, District Courts, lower courts and special tribunals.
We aid and advise our clients on regulatory compliances under the provisions of Environmental Laws in India and rules framed there-under; help them in raising their grievances before the National Green Tribunal. We also assist clients in obtaining necessary environmental law permits/approvals from state/central level authorities and in conducting environmental due diligence to assess material environmental risks related to acquisition of production/ manufacturing sites and pre-development assets in India.
We specialise in providing discreet advice to our clients with respect to their private prerequisites. We advise our clients on drafting family constitutions, restructuring family businesses, creation of trusts and wills, migration of residency, change of citizenship, Managing global assets and segregating family and business assets, settlements, taxation, wills and other testamentary instruments, obtaining probates, approvals, filings and court related dispute resolution.
We provide specialised assistance to our clients in complying with the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 on routing foreign direct investment in India; obtaining necessary approvals from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board(FIPB), Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Secretariat for Industrial Assistance (SIA),Reserve Bank of India etc; obtaining industrial licenses, government contracts; assistance in transfer of technology and licensing and repatriation. We also advise our clients on various provisions and procedure related to import and export of goods and services in India and conduct due diligence and analysis of probable collaborators for our clients.
Our Cyber Law practice includes advising our clients on everything from large system implementations, mergers and acquisitions and outsourcings, to new internet business models, software methodologies and energy technologies. We provide all-round legal services for specialized technology issues for Indian regulatory sector; development and implementation of corporate policies related to data security, record retention and privacy; large system implementations; procurement (development, implementation and disputes); licensing and development specialized issues; development and licensing issues regarding both mature and emerging development methodologies; consumer protection issues; intellectual property portfolio development and management services.
We counsel our clients on the entire spectrum of insurance law including transactional, regulatory, commercial, coverage, dispute resolution and claims, competition and restructuring.
Our services include providing counsel on issues pertaining to registered/unregistered intellectual property rights including trade mark, copyright, designs, domain name registration, patent, licensing, technology transfer matters and management of IP portfolios; transfer and use of intellectual rights such as copyright acquisitions, franchising models, trade mark licenses, technology transfer and software development agreements.
We specialise in Employment Contracts and Ancillary documents, including Technology and Intellectual Agreements Property license Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, and Non-compete Agreements; employment due diligence and statutory compliances. Our scope of work includes drafting, vetting and designing human resource and personnel policies and manuals; handling labour disputes and employee claims, confidentiality and data protection issues, assignment of intellectual property rights and review of collective bargaining agreements and charters of demand, advising on Applicable Labour Laws and Employment Laws.
The team specializes in providing advice over a wide repertoire of investment strategies and asset classes, structuring and operation of funds, from an Indian legal, regulatory and tax perspective, practice structuring and setting up of complex domestic and international funds ,structure and tax treatment of funds and special purpose vehicles; setting up of fund vehicles and drafting of constituent fund documents, setting up of the investment management/advisory vehicles and structuring management/advisory agreements and compensation arrangements with the fund; and regulatory compliant and tax efficient structuring of distribution waterfalls, including performance profit distributions, such as carried interest and other incentive arrangements.
We provide advice on development and planning, projects and construction, large loans, mezzanine, A/B and preferred equity originations, loan workouts, distressed debt acquisition (including loan-to-own strategies), investment, corporate occupation, tax, finance, securitisation, real estate investment fund formation, structuring and joint ventures, and complex real estate mergers and acquisitions; regulatory and compliance services under the Real Estate Regulation Act, 2016.
Our law firm’s tax practice includes assisting companies in tax structuring of investments into India; structuring agreements between subsidiaries of MNCs with their overseas group companies; avoidance of double taxation agreements, advising clients on capital gains tax and withholding tax issues arising from sale of shares and assets; various aspects of Indian income-tax laws, service tax implications involving import of services into India. We advise our clients on the regulatory compliances and coming to terms with frequent changes in tax regulations.