CORPORATE ADVISORY & SERVICES
MERGER AND ACQUISITIONS
Holistic M&A Advisory and Industry Expertise:
Leveraging our extensive experience across industries and transaction sizes, our firm offers comprehensive, solution-oriented support for complex M&A transactions. Our domain and sector-focused teams enable efficient, cost-effective, and timely management of legal challenges. We possess exceptional knowledge and competence in mergers, acquisitions, and data mergers, assisting with tax-efficient structures, stamp duty considerations, legal risk assessments, due diligence reviews, implementation strategies, regulatory approvals, and more.
Corporate Protection Mechanisms and Strategy:
We excel at identifying and implementing corporate protection mechanisms, addressing aspects such as minority protection rights, exit strategies, call-and-put option agreements, termination repercussions, and regulatory issues. Our firm ensures that clients receive tailored guidance on structuring deals, payment methods, and escrow arrangements, safeguarding their interests throughout the M&A process.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
The Firm actively supports Clients in resolving a range of corporate conduct and compliance challenges. In India and elsewhere, it represents and counsels local and international businesses. The lawyers collaborate on many of these submissions with law firms from various jurisdictions. The practice includes:
Creating corporate compliance programs.
Carrying out compliance audits.
Performing pre-acquisition due diligence on corporate compliance targets.
Handling cooperating witnesses and whistleblowers.
Conducting anti-corruption audits.
Guiding and handling permissible payments.
Conducting independent internal investigations of corporate misconduct.
In particular, it helps create a corporate governance code, educate the Board of Directors and financial stakeholders about corporate governance, and compare current procedures to those used globally, delivering value to the business and its stakeholders. To assess the level of compliance and afterward offer support in implementing or enhancing areas of concern, it conducts compliance audits and reviews of all laws applicable to the legal entity in its business activities.
SECRETARIAL REGULATORY AND LICENSING REQUIREMENTS
Representing clients in regulatory proceedings, advising regulatory authorities on a variety of issues, including merger control, abuse of dominance and anti-competitive behavior, tariff determination, licensing, non-discriminatory open access in network infrastructure, market design, performance regulation, and adjudicatory proceedings, is one of the firm's regulatory practice's essential components.
The firm has established sector-specific policy and regulatory practises because it understands the important role that regulatory laws and policy frameworks play in the growth of economies. It offers clients advice on the legislative landscape and state and federal governance concerns affecting their companies. Furthermore, offers proactive guidance to clients from both a compliance and a planning perspective. The firm represents clients before numerous regulatory authorities, such as the National Green Tribunal and the Electricity Regulatory Commission.