At L.
P. Agarwalla & Co., our lawyers with
broad experience, who take the time to understand
the many facets of our clients’ legal affairs,
understands that Resolution of the problem must remain
the goal, not punishing the other side, drowning the
opponents in paper or procedural hurdles, or other
features of modern litigation which at best are incidental
to the goal of solving the client’s problem.
Legal Problems Rarely Fit Into Simple Categories,
however, amongst others we practice in the following
areas of law:
Arbitration
And Conciliation – Alternate Dispute Resolution
Our Alternative Dispute
Resolution Law Practise Group consists of lawyers
drawn from each of our departments who have extensive
experience representing clients as advocates in
ADR proceedings, serving as mediators or arbitrators
in disputes between parties we do not represent,
or designing ADR contracts and policies for clients.
We strive to provide more cost-effective solutions
to disputes than traditional litigation proceedings,
which are less injurious to business relationships.
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Business Agreements
& Documents
General
Agreements / Corporate Agreements / Contracts
Our expertise, broad
experience and depth of resources enable us to provide
speedy, efficient and highest quality of varied
nature of Deeds, Agreements and Documents to our
clients. We understand that Words are the main tools
lawyers use and every provision of a contract carries
weight and must stand or fall on its own and as
such we strive to give highest level of
expertise in diverse kinds of agreements.
Though it is impossible
to elaborate on the topics covered under this extensive
area of service, but we believe in one policy and
that is –
“The need of the client
is the primary content that is to be fulfilled in
any kind of documentation work and the cornerstone
of our draftsmen is to provide superior legal drafts
to our clients.”
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Corporate
Law
Our Corporate Law Practise Group encompasses many
interrelated areas, permitting the firm to provide
clients with a broad spectrum of highly co-ordinated
legal advice. We advise businesses of every size,
whether it is Multi Nationals or entrepreneurs armed
only with an idea. We are committed to provide our
clients with clear, imaginative, and practical advice
in connection with all types of transactions including
mergers and acquisitions,
joint ventures and partnership arrangements, restructurings
and re-organizations, venture capital and other
financing transactions. The firm also is
experienced in advising corporations, boards of
directors, board committees, individual directors,
corporate officers and directors about corporate
governance issues and related matters.
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Civil
Law / Commercial Litigation
Our Commercial Litigation Practise Group is involved
in the full spectrum of commercial litigation and
represents a wide variety of businesses in the myriad
disputes that arise in today's ever-changing commercial
world. The firm's lawyers pride themselves on the
variety of clients they represent and the diversity
of claims they handle in various forums.
The group handles many kinds of commercial litigation,
ranging from single-issue injunction cases to multimillion
contract disputes. Our size and experience enables
us to assume responsibility for new matters quickly
and efficiently. The scope of our commercial litigation
experience is very broad and also includes issues
relating to Banking, Insurance, Shipping and E-Commerce
amongst others.
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Criminal
Law
Our Criminal Law Practise Group provides services
of certain classes of Criminal matters inter alia
Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights, fraud,
cheating, criminal conspiracy, burglary, accident,
misappropriation of funds, defamation, offences
related to property, breach of contract, marriages
including dowry demands and polygamy. We advise
our clients at all levels and represent them in
Criminal Courts at District level, as well as in
the High Courts and Supreme Court of India.
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Disinvestment
Our Disinvestment Law Practise Group has assisted
private entrepreneurs to take up the challenge of
acquiring the loss making Public Sector Undertakings
from the hands of the Government. We assist in preparing
and examining various Agreements like Share Purchase
Agreement, Shareholders Agreement, Guarantee Agreement
and other documents and letters coupled with detailed
step by step advise required by the client for transferring
of the Government’s share holding to the private
entrepreneur.
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Family & Personal
Law
Our Marital and Family Law Practise Group serves
clients on matters ranging from simple to complex
divorce and custody matters. Initial consultation
includes an in-depth assessment of the situation,
with a view toward achieving a resolution at the
least possible financial and emotional expense to
the client. Where amicable resolutions are not possible,
our lawyers have the experience and the resources
to pursue its clients' interests throughout the
discovery, trial and post-trial enforcement stages.
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Intellectual Property
/ Internet Law
Our Intellectual Property & Internet Law Practise
Group understands the sanctity of the clients’
Intellectual Property Rights, which encompasses
many forms of intangible property and may include
copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
Intellectual Property is often the most valuable
and least protected asset of many businesses and
creative individuals. We provide our clients the
advice and assistance required in this area of law
to protect the work of creative individuals and
businesses and further taking such steps required
to stop the infringement by unauthorized users.
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Industrial
Law & Labour Law
Our Industrial Law & Labour Law Practise Group
advises both public and private employers and counsels
employers in all areas of labour and employment
law. Our attorneys advise clients in the prevention
of potential litigation through, for example, review
and preparation of employee handbooks and review
and drafting of employment contracts and agreements.
We advise clients on a broad range of issues under
Industrial Law, Workmen Compensation Act and other
Labour Laws. The firm represents employers in proceedings
before labour tribunals and as well as before courts
in defence of all types of employment litigation,
including wrongful termination and discrimination
claims.
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Maritime / Admiralty
Laws
Our Maritime Law Practice Group focus their practice
in Maritime and Admiralty Law. Maritime or Admiralty
law is a set of legal rules and practices governing
the business of employment and transportation of
people and goods over or near navigable waters.
Maritime law applies to the operation of most any
type of vessel, from the largest ocean going cargo
vessel, to fishing vessels, to jet skis. This body
of law provides rights and remedies to most everyone
who works on or near these vessels. For instance,
skippers, engineers, deckhands, seamen, galley workers,
fishermen, crabbers, on-board seafood processors,
ferry workers, and tug & barge hands have rights
under maritime law. Oil rig workers, longshoremen
and ship repairers have maritime rights. In addition,
maritime law governs airplane or helicopter crashes
on navigable waters. Maritime law would also apply
to maritime insurance disputes, maritime property
damage, loss of cargo, damage to shoreside property
by vessels, suppliers/vendors of vessel supplies,
repairers of vessels, etc.
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Real Estate / Property
Laws
Our Real Estate Law Practice Group represent developers
and closely-held corporations, major non-profit
institutions, investment banking firms, retail and
hospitality businesses, small business investment
companies, syndicated partnerships, individuals,
professional institutes, state and local government
agencies. In representing clients in all aspects
of development, construction, leasing, acquisition
and sale of residential, commercial, multifamily
and industrial real estate, we handle a full range
of commercial real estate transactions, including
drafting of agreements and resolving disputes between
the parties either amicably or through the process
of court. Our objective is to make the process of
buying and selling as straightforward, speedy and
secure as possible. Extensive experience enables
us to foresee and prevent many problems before they
arise, reducing the risk of future anomalies.
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Taxation
Our Taxation Law Practise
Group comprehensive services relates to the tax
planning, management, and protection of assets of
corporations, partnerships and individuals. The
department counsels clients in all aspects of central
and state taxation. Extensive counselling is provided
to corporate clients in the areas of formation,
operation, and termination of business activities
and to individual clients in estate planning, including
preparation of trusts and wills, estate and trust
administration and litigation, and other wealth
preservation strategies. We counsel with clients
to meet their individual and family objectives for
the management and transmission of wealth. Services
include drafting of variety of estate planning documents
designed to preserve and protect family assets and
to reduce estate, gift, wealth and income tax.
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Trusts
/ Will & Probate
Our Trusts and Estates Law Practise Group devotes
its experience, energy and creativity to counsel
individuals and businesses on protecting family
wealth, including drafting of Trust Agreements,
Will and Codicils. Our experienced lawyers and legal
assistants concentrate exclusively in formulating
and implementing creative strategies to transfer
resources within, and preserve capital for the client's
family. Complex modern tax and property laws is
an obstacle to the efficient transfer of family
assets between generations, however, we have strong
capability in resolving the estate and trust issues
and administrating the same. This also includes
representing executors, trustees or beneficiaries
in relation to Will contests or document interpretation
issues and for this our lawyers work at all phases
of estate management. We also provide complete estate
planning and administration services for individuals
and their families.
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