Practice Areas

Commercial arbitration and structured dispute resolution.

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Arbitration is now the default forum for serious commercial disputes and it rewards firms that treat it as litigation conducted with discipline, not as a softer alternative to court. We represent businesses, public-sector undertakings, promoters, and individuals in domestic and international commercial arbitration, in the court proceedings that surround it, and in the structured negotiation and mediation that often resolves a dispute before an award is ever needed.Our partners have been part of legal teams in high-value domestic and international commercial arbitrations, including matters for public-sector undertakings and private corporations, and the firm brings that experience to bear across the full life cycle of a dispute from the drafting of the arbitration clause, through the constitution of the tribunal, to enforcement of the award.

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What we handle

Domestic commercial arbitration: Contractual, shareholder, supply, distribution, construction, infrastructure, and service disputes referred to arbitration under Indian law, whether ad hoc or institutional.

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International commercial arbitration: Cross-border disputes seated in India or abroad, including matters under the rules of leading institutions, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign awards in India under Part II of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Sections 44-49, giving effect to the New York Convention).

 

We appear in the full range of supervisory and supporting applications before the High Courts and the Supreme Court. We undertake urgent protection of assets, accounts, shares, or contractual positions, whether through emergency arbitration provisions or Section 9 of the Act.Mediation and conciliation. Structured settlement, including under the framework of the Mediation, multi-tiered dispute clauses, and pre-litigation negotiation where a commercial resolution serves the client better than an award. Drafting and reviewing arbitration and dispute-resolution clauses so that, if a dispute does arise, the seat, governing law, institution, and procedure are clear and enforceable, and not a source of further litigation.

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How we approach it

Arbitration is won on preparation. We begin by forming a clear theory of the dispute and a realistic view of the commercial endgame i.e recovery, enforcement, or a negotiated exit and we work backwards from it. Where a structured settlement or mediated resolution better protects the client's commercial relationships, time, or confidentiality, we will say so.

 

Who we act for

Corporations and public-sector undertakings in contractual and project disputes; promoters and shareholders in investment and exit disputes; developers, contractors, and suppliers in commercial and construction-linked claims; and individuals in high-value private commercial disputes.