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- office@shankar.associates
- Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
Our chambers trace its professional lineage back to the 1980’s with the establishment of Shankar and Associates by Late Mr. Hari Shankar Jain, whose grandchild Arjun Jain is the founding member of the Chambers. Our deep roots and values have since, been retained.
Our arbitration practice is well known across the industries. Our hands-on experience effectuates active management of our client’s business through strategic risk management advice and mitigating risk at the outset without getting into litigation. Our range covers a wide spectrum of sectors on all aspects of the disputes, including selection and management of experts, strategy development and execution and conducting hearing and settlement negotiations.
Our consumer protection team advices clients on all aspects of COPRA including litigation, transactional and advisory matters and representation before various tribunals, special courts, ranging from domestic enquiries to cases before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
Real Estate Regulation Act is a fairly new law in India. However, our expertise enables us to handle a broad spectrum of commercial property work for developers, investors, lenders, and business users for both domestic and international Companies. Along with RERA we also have an in-depth understanding of commercial and legal complexities pertaining to ownership and acquisition disputes, regulatory issues, approval from authorities, land use conversion, foreign investments etc. We ensure that our clients have a planned structure and provide active assistance in negotiating complex deals.
While the Insolvency Laws in India has seen some key changes recently, we are equipped to cover both contentious and non-contentious proceedings and security enforcement. We provide advice right from initiation proceedings to debt recovery mechanisms and mitigating various potential issues that could arise as a result of interplay between the code and other applicable laws.
We are key advisors on some ground-breaking banking transaction in India. Right from debt restructuring, securitization deals, derivative products, we have them all covered from the get go. We are proud to be preferred lender’s counsel to some key bank and financial institutions and we act as Indian conglomerates on the borrowing spectrum of the deals.
Our core strength in criminal matters rests on our innate ability to examine and execute legally and tactically strong responses and strategies for our clients in complex criminal trials. We assist in prosecution as well as defence for various socio-political-economic cases. With a bail rate of 100% we are proud to ensure that the legal justice is provided at a nascent stage.
We understand your business and the legal implications across divers sectors and jurisdictions. We are the pioneers for risk assessment and mitigation by providing the best-suited legal solutions. Our civil law advisory and litigation practice is well equipped to drive a transaction from the scratch. Our expertise on all ancillary aspects of a transactions, regulatory approvals, and on-going compliance along with retention of civil rights provides the optimal strategy for the client in a hassle-free manner.
Tax structuring is a critical aspect in any deal or commercial transaction today. With the amendments in Income Tax Act and the GST Reforms, our tax practice offers tax advices where we ensure tax structuring, advice on commercial transactions and client representation in tax disputes in matters ranging from Direct Tax, Customs, VAT, Service Tax, Anti-Dumping and now Goods and Services Tax.
We would like to identify ourselves as a firm for start-ups, founders, emerging growth companies, incubators, accelerators, incubators, angel investors, family offices and venture capital / equity funds. We understand the complexities and legalities involved in a business from incorporation to exits and are determined to provide effective solutions to the challenges imposed in a start-up ecosystem.
We offer end to end services covering all aspects of intellectual property and its interplay with corporate commercial laws. We are experienced in handling complex IP issues in the field of copyrights, designs, patents, trademarks, domain names, confidential information and trade secrets. Right from concept defining scope and acquisition of intellectual property to enforcement and protection, we are equipped to cover all.
We advise on a gamut of anti-trust and competition issues and are involved in several behavioural investigations conducted by CCI. On a regular basis, we conduct compliance programs and antitrust risk assessments for various sectors. Our services include competition risk assessment, investigation advisory, litigation and appearance before CCI, CAT, High Court and Supreme Court of India, compliance, merger control and structuring of numerous transactions relating to acquisitions, mergers and amalgamation.
Our team is a regular advisor and drafter to many companies, directors, shareholders, partnerships, LLPs, trusts and other business entities on a range of contracts and agreements. We are well known for efficient drafting, right from the term sheets. Our structuring, drafting and negotiating contracts includes confidentiality, consultancy, distribution, franchising, licensing, services, strategic alliance, teaming, and technology transfer to name a few.