Areas of Practice

Corporate & Commercial

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate Restructuring

Joint Ventures

Private Equity / Venture Capital

Compliance and Corporate

Secretarial Law

Employment Laws

Commercial Contracts

K Law’s corporate & commercial practice includes transactional and advisory mandates.

Our transactional experience spans advising on private equity and venture capital investments, corporate reorganisations including schemes of arrangement, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. We advise on both domestic and cross border transactions backed by our extensive experience in advising on the regulations governing both inbound and outbound investments.

On the advisory side, we have a number of retainer clients who we advise on routine contractual and legal matters across diverse sectors such as manufacturing, outsourcing, information technology, infrastructure and e-commerce.

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Banking & Finance

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Project Finance

Real Estate Construction and Financing

Structured Finance

International Trade Finance

Bond Issuances

Restructuring Term and Working Capital Lending

Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016

K Law offers services in various transactions relating to the banking and finance sector. The area of expertise includes advising both lenders and borrowers on structured financing, project financing, debt restructuring, listed and unlisted debenture issuances, bankruptcy and recovery proceedings, security creation and enforcement, and restructuring under the corporate debt restructuring mechanism, joint lender forums, or court-approved schemes of arrangement.

K Law actively represents financial institutions including banks and non-banking financial companies, investment advisors, alternate investment funds, asset reconstruction companies, borrowers, and issuers across a varied range of financing transactions. Some of the key clients the firm advises include KKR India Financial Services, Yes Bank, IDBI Bank, LIC Housing Finance and L&T Infrastructure Finance.

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Employment

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Advisory

Documentation and Policies

Sexual Harassment matters

Investigations and inquiry

Compliance Audit

Dispute Resolution and Representation

Workforce Restructuring

Understanding the importance of human resource management in an organization’s long-term success, K Law provides comprehensive labour and employment-related advisory for ensuring compliance with the challenging domestic and international regulatory regime.

Placing welfare at the core – for both its clients and the clients’ employees, the Firm designs efficient internal human resource guidance and management systems in line with the applicable law and adeptly handles the sensitivities surrounding POSH regulations and misconduct allegations. The Firm has a celebrated expertise in relation to provident fund-related regulations and compliances, employee incentives including stock options and stock appreciation rights, business transfer, efficient restructuring of workforce and optimally managing appointments and disengagement of senior management.

The Firm also instrumentally supports, intermediates and balances interests in trade union matters and industrial disputes and provides reliable advisory and litigation support for the entire gamut of labour and employment-related matters.

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Securities Laws

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Initial Public Offerings

Rights Issues

Qualified Institutional Placements

FCCB Offerings

ADR/GDR Offerings

SEBI and SAT Disputes

K Law’s experience in the securities laws practice spans initial public offerings, rights issues, qualified institutional placements, foreign currency convertible bonds in capital markets transactions as well as securities laws litigation.

K Law has recently advised on the public offerings of Power Mech Projects and Pennar Engineered Building Systems.

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Intellectual Property

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Trademark, Patent, Design and Copyright: Registration and Prosecution

Trademark, Patent, Design and Copyright: Litigation and Enforcement

Intellectual Property: Portfolio Management

Information Technology Laws

The highly specialized team at K Law handles all aspects of intellectual property laws ranging from trademarks, patents, designs, copyright to geographical indications.

The major areas of the practice cover prosecution, litigation, enforcement and transactional IP. The IP team works closely with the firm’s corporate department to advise clients on intellectual property aspects in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other corporate transactions.

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Real Estate & Construction

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Title Diligence

Land Acquisition

Construction Projects

Joint Development and Redevelopment Projects

Leasing

K Law’s real estate and construction practice comprises representing prominent developers, financial institutions, corporations and individuals in a variety of real estate transactions concerning land acquisition, development and construction projects and foreign direct investment in the real estate sector.

The firm is engaged by leading corporates, banks and housing finance companies for conducting title scrutiny of properties that are presented for securing construction finance. The firm also advises banks and housing finance companies in preparing the loan and security documents. Additionally, the real estate practice offers seamless support to other practice areas such as our Infrastructure, Corporate & Commercial teams on matters concerning real estate.

K Law is supported by a network of local lawyers throughout India to assist with the practical aspects of land acquisition, document sourcing, title scrutiny of documents in local languages, interacting with land owners and liaising with relevant local authorities.

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Dispute Resolution

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Pre-disputes Strategy

Commercial

Civil including Real Estate

Arbitration (International & Domestic)

Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016

The dispute resolution team provides clients with creative and constructive solutions for resolving disputes (domestic and cross border). The team also regularly advises and represents clients in white collar crime issues. The team represents clients in the following judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative forums across the country:

  • International and domestic arbitrations (both ad hoc and institutional);

  • Supreme Court, various High Courts and various city civil courts and district courts;

  • National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal;

  • Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT);

  • Various state Real Estate Regulatory Authority and the Appellate Tribunals;

  • Other specialised tribunals as consumer disputes redressal forums, co-operative society courts, debt recovery tribunals and other administrative tribunals;

  • White-Collar Crimes: Sessions and Magistrates courts; Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

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White-Collar / Economic Crimes

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Representation in cases filed under Prevention of Corruption Act, Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Companies Act and other economic crimes

Representation before Central Bureau of Investigations, Enforcement Directorate, Economic Offences Wing, Serious Fraud Investigation Office, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)

Steering the Firm’s broad-based practice in the corporate and commercial field includes the contemplation and curation of a resolution framework for managing incidents of sophisticated crimes. At K. Law, we have attained experience-based expertise in dealing with white-collar crimes commensurate with the ever-evolving domestic and international regulatory landscape.

Our allied practices in corporate, commercial and taxation advisory aids us in all-round handling and formulating of specialised solutions for complex civil and criminal incidents related to corruption, money laundering, fraud and deterrent laws in India and abroad. Our team specialises in managing cross-border investments, foreign corruption and fraud-related regulatory advisory for multinational transactions involving the interplay of foreign statutes such as Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 1977 and UK Bribery Act, 2010.

We are adept at preventive control by crafting elegant intra-firm compliance mechanisms, proactive detection and response support, risk and reputation management and representation during governmental investigations and litigation support before various judicial fora.

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Media & Entertainment

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Technology Licensing and Transfer

Films, Television, Music, Radio, Internet Content: Acquisition, Licensing and Distribution, IPR Litigation

The media and entertainment practice at K Law brings a multi-disciplinary approach to one of the fastest growing practices in legal and regulatory business in India.

The media and entertainment group advises clients on a wide range of matters related to IP acquisitions, licensing & syndication, online media issues, interactive content, software and technology development, acquisition & licensing, film production, financing & distribution, publishing and gaming, events & ticketing, IP issues pertaining to e-commerce marketplaces, IP acquisitions as part of M & A transactions, in addition to advising on the relevant regulatory frameworks in India. The practice group has considerable experience in advising creators, owners and users of content, and intermediaries alike.

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Infrastructure

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Energy – Conventional and Renewable

Engineering Procurement and Construction

Transport and Mining

Electricity and Power Disputes

K Law’s expertise in infrastructure advisory includes advising a range of stakeholders consisting primarily of project proponents, sponsors, developers, contractors, joint ventures and urban local bodies. Our clients range from strategic and financial investors, financing institutions (public and private sector banks, non-banking financing companies (NBFCs), private equity players, domestic and global infrastructure funds and multilateral agencies) advisory firms and investment banks investing in infrastructure projects in India. Our credentials encompass advising on sectors such as power (both conventional and renewable), ports, airports, roads, transportation (such as mass rapid transit systems and aviation), urban infrastructure such as water supply and waste management projects, healthcare, education and defence.

Our involvement in any project incorporates the provision of comprehensive transaction support to our clients from inception of the project to financial close and during the lifecycle of the project.

We also regularly advise and represent our clients in electricity and power disputes and our team is adept at appearing before various electricity commissions like KERC, MERC and CERC and also the APTEL.

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International Trade & Commodities

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International Sale of Goods

Letters of Credit / URC

Letters of Indemnity

Bill of Lading & contamination disputes

Appreciating the nuanced divergences and convergences underlying the domestic and international trade law, our legal practice adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to offer an integrated value-driven solution and provide all-round support for the smooth functioning of our valued clients’ ambitious business endeavours. We regularly represent trading companies engaged in imports and exports.

Our practice spans across industry multiples and we advise on all regulatory and commercial aspects of international trade transactions, including compliance with international regulations, e-commerce, contracts, finance and securities, insurance law, transportation law, quality control, inspections and logistic matters, trade embargoes as well as advisory for customs, technical and other administrative matters.

We proficiently undertake representational services for our clients before various national and international fora for a timely dispute resolution.

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Private Equity

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Fund set up

All rounds of funding

Exits

Leveraged buy-outs

K Law has a comprehensive and celebrated private equity and venture capital practice spanning across several sectors such as healthcare, pharma, financial services, infrastructure, technology social impact investments amongst others.

We regularly advise several high net-worth domestic and international financial investors including private equity funds, sponsors, family offices, banks, specialist infrastructure funds, limited partners and funds of fund on well-rounded commercial strategies and solutions. We also advise on compliance mandates for domestic and cross border investments coming into private and listed companies through varied investment routes such as buyouts, growth capital and multi-series investment rounds, etc.

Our PE/VC offering is further bolstered by the expertise of our formidable Funds team and our regulatory lawyers which enables us to provide a reliable integrated service to our clients in this specialized sector.

K Law also efficiently manages portfolios for its PE/VC clients throughout the life cycle of the investment and advises them on a broad range of related issues. Our expertise lies in professionally handholding clients through every stage of the deal from entry to exit for all the legal advisory that is required within.

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