Trilegal

Antitrust and Competition: Advise and represent Indian and foreign clients on the full spectrum of competition matters, including merger control, Phase II reviews, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance, compliance programmes, competition audits, and transaction-related antitrust risk assessment, including before the Competition Commission of India and appellate courts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Advise clients on legal, regulatory, and transactional issues relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and robotics, including AI-driven transactions, legal compliance, risk mitigation, intellectual property, employment considerations, data privacy, and the assessment of emerging technology products. The practice also engages with policy and regulatory developments relating to the responsible and ethical use of AI technologies in India.

Artwork Advisory: Advise collectors, galleries, auction houses, investors, trusts, estates, and charitable institutions on the full life cycle of artworks, including acquisition, sale, commissioning, licensing, lending, brokering and insurance arrangements, intellectual property issues, regulatory compliance, legal due diligence, ownership, provenance and authenticity disputes, structuring, estate and succession planning, and philanthropy-related advisory.

Asset Management & Funds: Representing clients in structuring and establishment of investment platforms, co-investment structuring, carried interest and compensation arrangements, buy-outs, spin-offs, JVs, sidecar funds and secondaries, fund-related disputes, extensions and restructuring, governance-related issues, and more.

Banking & Finance: Market-leading expertise in structured financing, including acquisition finance, project finance, private DCM, securitisation, debt restructuring, distressed investments, enforcement, advisory, regulatory matters, and M&A in the financial services sector.

Capital Markets: Expertise in issuing equity and equity-linked instruments, including IPOs, preferential issues, private placements, QIPs, FCCBs, and overseas listings of GDRs.

Corporate: Known for handling complex, high-value cross-border and domestic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions, high-value debt restructuring, distressed asset management, special situations, and insolvency matters for major Indian corporate groups.

Dispute Resolution: Market-leading practice with expertise in commercial litigation, arbitration, white-collar crime, and ADR. Represented clients in landmark decisions, particularly in the power, aviation, and oil and gas sectors.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Climate Change: Advise businesses on policy, compliance with UN SDGs, waste management, carbon solutions, e-mobility, inclusive finance, affordable housing, green supply chains, and climate tech. Also work with investors and sovereign wealth funds to mobilise finance for green and ESG objectives.

Financial Regulatory: Expert advisory on licensing, business expansion, compliance, financial technology innovation, risk management, internal controls, governance, and derivatives, including ISDA documentation and OTC regulations.

Government & Public Sector: Support engagements with government and public sector entities, leveraging deep insight into legal, regulatory, and commercial frameworks. Services include advising on policy formulation, disinvestment transactions, and large-scale public sector initiatives, ensuring compliance while balancing commercial objectives with public interest.

Insolvency & Restructuring: Admission of insolvency applications, advisory through all stages of the resolution or liquidation process, and acquisitions arising out of insolvency and corporate restructuring, and more.

Insurance: Advise insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, and institutional investors on insurance regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters, including licensing, IRDAI-facing advisory, business structuring, distribution arrangements, product and operational compliance, investments, M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, and other strategic transactions across India’s evolving insurance sector.

Intellectual Property: Advise clients across the full intellectual property lifecycle, including the creation, protection, enforcement, and commercialisation of IP assets. The practice covers trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs, trade secrets, confidential information, portfolio management, IP disputes and enforcement, anti-counterfeiting actions, domain name disputes, licensing, franchising, IP due diligence, technology collaborations, data protection interfaces, and IP aspects of transactions, restructurings, and emerging technologies including digital media, gaming, and artificial intelligence.

International Trade: Large experience in complex cross-border trade matters, including trade remedy investigations, customs compliance, Foreign Trade Policy, Free Trade Agreements, and WTO-related advisory.

Labour & Employment: Likely the only top-tier Indian firm with a dedicated team of employment lawyers. The Practice advises on employee compensation and benefits, retention policies, workforce reorganisations, business closures, employee transfers in acquisitions, restrictive covenants, workplace training, disciplinary matters, trade union disputes, and representation before regulatory authorities, including immigration issues.

Policy: Advise clients on navigating and shaping policy frameworks through a principled, pragmatic, and legally grounded approach. The practice focuses on aligning sector-specific interventions with broader development goals, engaging with government stakeholders, and contributing to policy formulation and public discourse across key industries.

Private Clients: Providing comprehensive and bespoke solutions for high-net-worth individuals and family businesses on a broad range of issues, including domestic and cross-border succession, family governance, family disputes, tax and regulatory compliance, philanthropy, art and luxury assets, ESG interests, and more.

Private Equity: Advise private equity sponsors, investors, and portfolio companies on domestic and cross-border transactions, including control and minority investments, PIPE transactions, fund structuring interfaces, due diligence, investment documentation, regulatory compliance, portfolio management, investment restructurings, bolt-on acquisitions, and exits. The practice also supports sovereign wealth funds and family offices on complex and high-value transactions across sectors.

Projects: Specialised in power, mining, transportation, and social infrastructure, the firm collaborates with governments, multilateral agencies, and private investors to provide solutions in project development, financing, and restructuring.

Real Estate: The firm assists with investments, joint ventures, and property transactions, including acquisitions, sales, and leases. Expertise includes title due diligence, structuring acquisitions, stamp duty, registration, and negotiating development, construction, project management, and EPC agreements. Impanelled by the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry for sector-specific expertise.

Tax: Assist with tax advisory, controversy resolution, due diligence, M&As, and international tax structuring, including transfer pricing and litigation.

Technology, Media & Telecom: Support tech businesses globally with solutions across M&A, regulatory and commercial advice, and policy guidance. Services cover data privacy and protection, trademark, IoT, AI/ML, OTT, new media, cloud, mobile, satellite, and other emerging technologies.

White Collar Crimes: Expertise with complex internal and cross-border investigations into inter alia, financial statements frauds, bribery and corruption, kickbacks, vendor fraud, concerns such as workplace misconduct and other behavioural issues at the workplace, data theft, etc.

• Agriculture, Agrichemicals and Fertilisers
• Airports & Aviation
• Automotive & Electric Vehicles
• Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI)
• Central & State Government Work
• Chemicals
• Construction
• Defence
• E-commerce
• Education & Ed-Tech
• Fin-Tech
• Food & Beverages
• Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, & Life Sciences
• Hospitality
• Manufacturing
• Media & Entertainment
• Power Transmission & Renewable Energy
• Metros & Railways
• Space & Communications