The Firm’s Competition law vertical provides cutting-edge assistance to its clients in a diverse array of fields that encompass practice areas dealing with anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, mergers,and acquisitions, dawn raids, leniency, competition compliance etc.

The Firm has been a pioneer in competition law litigation in relation to Standard-Essential Patents applicable to the exploding mobile handset industry in India, an area that has engaged several competition law jurisdictions across the globe.

The Firm’s consumer law practice is an extension of its well-respected values that it has acquired over the years. While the Firm advises international clients with their consumer law exposure in India (including handling high value appellate cases), the firm has also emerged as a strong first instance & appellate consumer litigation practice with the judgment of the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (“NCDRC”) in the “Kalypso Court” case.

The Firm’s Corporate/M&A practice adds to the Firm’s ability to leverage its Industry expertise by assisting clients on the Corporate/M&A/ Commercial side. The Corporate Practice contained within the Tier 1 ranked full-service Intellectual Property law expertise offered by the Firm allows the team to effectively deploy its well-reckoned expertise areas in favour of its clients.

The Firm works very closely with stakeholders in the Indian film, television and media industry including production houses, music labels, print-publishing groups, broadcasting companies as also IT companies, and various individual designers and artists, providing copyright filing, prosecution, registration and post-registration services, both in India and Internationally.

The Firm has a dedicated team advising and assisting clients in matters involving exposure under criminal law provisions, including under provisions of the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, Information Technology Act, Copyright Act, Trade Marks Act, Indecent Representation of Women Act, Public Gambling statutes, Drugs & Cosmetics Act, Legal Metrology Act, Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Prevention of Corruption Act, to name a few.

The Firm’s design practice provides end to end solutions for design registrations and enforcement. The teams are well versed with Design Laws and procedural requirements not just for the Indian Jurisdiction but also for other countries like US, China, Japan, Europe, etc. which classify designs under Patent Law, Unlike India. With clear insights and vast knowledge in the domain, the Firm’s professionals are well equipped to conduct design searches on various databases.

The Firm’s Dispute Resolution Group has consistently been rated as one of the best in India in relation to Intellectual Property. The practice comprises of the IP Litigation, General & Commercial Litigation, Alternate Dispute Resolution and the Competition Law teams. In 2014, the Firm was voted “Firm of the Year – India” by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine for Contentious Practice and has consistently maintained to be a Tier-1/Gold Band Firm since then.

The Firm’s specialised environmental law practice focuses advise for its domestic and international clients in the technology & consumer durable space on a variety of regulatory matters pertaining to India’s environmental laws, specifically relating to electronic waste management, hazardous waste management, plastic waste management etc.

The Firm’s specialised environmental law practice focuses advise for its domestic and international clients in the technology & consumer durable space on a variety of regulatory matters pertaining to India’s environmental laws, specifically relating to electronic waste management, hazardous waste management, plastic waste management etc.

The enforcement practice at the Firm conducted over 500 criminal and civil actions for clients spanning diverse industries & sectors over the last 3 years. The team at the Firm encompasses wide-ranging experience in Intellectual Property enforcement and anti-counterfeiting across a broad spectrum of products and services including apparel/garments, luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, consumer durables, books, films, music with members of the enforcement team has a thorough understanding of dealing with counterfeiting in a number of diverse industries.

The Firm´s patent practice is well placed to assist Indian and overseas clients to protect, manage and maximize their patent portfolios in multiple technical domains. The Firm´s highly trained patent team consists of accredited patent agents and attorneys who are specialists in the fields of Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Electronic, Wireless & Telecommunication, Biotechnology, Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.

The Firm provides highly sophisticated and practical advice on data management and data privacy laws to domestic as well as multinational clients. Our dedicated teams of lawyers and IT professionals work closely with in-house corporate teams for designing and implementing data security processes and modules. As part of this service line, our professionals conduct regular audits/data mapping to ascertain risk and threats.

A hallmark of the Firm representation of clients has been its longstanding support to clients and industry associations across sectors such as Software, Broadcasting, Print Publishing, Motion Pictures etc. The Firm advises a cross-sector mix of the country’s apex associations on Policy reform and development initiatives. The Firm advises the Music Sector, Film Sector, Print Publishing sector and the Technology Sector on policy and regulatory concerns surrounding IP, International Treaties, Data Protection, Cyber Security etc.

The Firm strongly believes in imbibing a culture of ‘giving back’ and operationalizes its vision by actively providing pro-bono assistance in addition to regular matters. Associates and Partners in the firm focus on pro-bono assistance with some spending in excess of 70% of their time with pro-bono cases. In doing so, the Firm seeks to lend support to the building of a ‘pro-bono ethic’ across Indian law Firms.

The real estate practice group at the Firm actively advises clients with real estate transaction support and advisory matters. The Firm advises landowners, developers and entities with respect to purchase/lease.

The Firm regularly advise its clients on a variety of issues relating to sports law. The Firm was instrumental in devising the strategy to establish the tort of commercial misappropriation of “hot news” in the context of sports in India. The Firm also successfully represented interests of private sports broadcasters in a multi-level litigation involving the balancing the public’s right to access sporting events of national importance viz a viz the rights of private broadcasters.

The Firm’s TMT practice retains industry experts allowing the Firm to draw on substantial domain expertise. This ability is coupled with the Firm’s cutting-edge litigation, transactional, prosecution, and policy development expertise offering clients practical and innovative solutions. The Firm’s expertise spans a wide array of sectors such as films, music, broadcast radio, television, print and e-publishing, gaming (including AR/VR), digital media, online intermediaries etc.

The Firm’s experienced trademark 20+ lawyer team advises clients from small or medium enterprises to international clients, across a diverse array of industries on strategic brand/trademark protection and enforcement. The team prides itself on offering clients, practical yet innovative solutions to suit their requirements. The trademark service-line includes Filing & Prosecution, Contentious and Advisory services.

The Firm regularly advises and assists its domestic and international clients in understanding, implementing and complying with a wide range of national and state legislation as well as sector-specific regulations and guidelines. The firm provides customized advice on complex legal and regulatory issues, at all stages of the regulatory process.