Practice Areas
Argus Partners offers industry leading legal advice across a wide range of practice areas. Our specialist team of lawyers have a reputation for delivering insightful knowledge with a high degree of multidisciplinary expertise and experience.
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Corporate and M&A
The Firm is renowned for its general corporate and mergers & acquisitions practice. Our lawyers regularly advise on complex transactions, both domestic and cross border. Our M&A team consists of highly skilled lawyers who have developed significant expertise in this area of practice and also have international experience.
We offer creative and pragmatic solutions on all matters. Understanding our clients’ business coupled with a strong understanding of accounting, financial and tax matters gives us the added advantage of identifying, comprehending and mitigating risks.
Lawyers in our offices across India work closely to provide our clients with comprehensive advise on general…
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Finance
The Firm’s practice in banking and finance is demonstrated by the depth of its clientele across sectors. We advise leading national and international banks, financial institutions, NBFCs, debt funds and corporate houses in almost all forms of banking and finance transactions including structured finance, securitisation, project finance, promoter funding/ loan against shares, syndicated lending, consortium lending, bonds, debentures and commercial papers. Whilst a large majority of our assignments are as lenders’ or investors’ counsel, we have also acted as borrowers’ or issuers’ counsel in various transactions.
Private Credit and Structured Finance
The Firm advises various credit funds and NBFCs on…
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Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency
The Firm has deep knowledge and comprehensive experience in handling intricate legal issues pertaining to investment in distressed assets and corporate restructuring. Understanding intricate issues and the ability to identify risks and advise appropriately is a key skill set of the members of this practice area. Pursuant to the onset of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“Code”), the Firm has extensively advised several clients on issues arising under the Code.
The Firm has been constantly recognised as one of the leading restructuring and insolvency law firms in India by several international and domestic publications. The Firm has advised investors…
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Disputes & ADR
Our disputes practice is primarily focused on commercial, contractual and regulatory disputes. While advising our clients, we take into account their business objectives and proceed to assess the commercial viability and reputational risks of litigation. Our disputes practice contributes effectively not only in dealing with disputes but also in preventing potential disputes from affecting the business of our clients. Our lawyers aim to provide commercially viable and practical solutions.
We advise clients on strategies in ongoing litigation, potential disputes, recovery and enforcement proceedings, arbitration, conciliation & mediation and a host of regulatory matters. We handle matters before courts, quasi-judicial authorities…
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Private Equity & Venture Capital
Private equity investments in India are subject to a complex web of regulations. The law on this subject is constantly evolving and structuring of private equity transactions is getting more and more complex and sophisticated by the day. Our lawyers possess extensive knowledge and understanding of the key issues that our clients may face. This enables us to provide our clients with bespoke solutions and creative strategies. We have both the technical as well as practical expertise to meet the requirements of our clients and their business necessities.
We have regularly advised clients on venture capital and private equity investments.…
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Energy and Infrastructure
The tremendous impetus in the energy and infrastructure sector and global interest in the area in our country strengthens our position to have this particular practice as one of our core practice areas.
Our lawyers possess extensive knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework and the local markets in order to provide practical and solution-oriented advice, tailored to suit the commercial needs of our clients.
Specialised team
Our team comprises specialised lawyers in the energy and infrastructure practice area who are highly skilled, smart, motivated and thorough professionals. Our lawyers understand varied industries and sectors and have more than 15…
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Technology and Data Privacy
Technology has been the driving force behind the Indian economy for the last two decades. After the dot-com era, tech start-ups took over the pivotal task of bringing in foreign investment and creating jobs in India. Indian lawyers who understand the technology and tech-driven transactions have played a significant role in supporting the growth and development of Indian technology MNCs. India has had the SPDI Rules since 2011 and now a proposed data privacy statute – the Data Protection Bill, on par with GDPR, is being deliberated upon in Parliament.
Argus Partners has developed a strong and robust technology and…
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Real Estate
The tremendous significance of the real estate sector and its impact on other sectors like infrastructure and industry strengthens our position to have this particular practice as one of our core practice areas. The Indian real estate industry is constantly evolving and the regulatory environment demands greater accountability from developers which augurs well for the sector in the long run.
The structuring and financing of real estate transactions is getting more and more complex and sophisticated by the day. Deal structuring in this space requires not only an excellent understanding of the relevant regulations but also an in depth knowledge…
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Competition
We have developed a robust and sophisticated competition law practice. We work closely with economists, accountants and other professionals to offer our clients a one stop shop for all competition law matters. Our competition practice consists of the entire spectrum of competition law including merger control, investigation and enforcement actions, reviewing agreements to ensure compliance with competition law and providing advisory services on all aspects of competition law.
We regularly represent our clients before the Competition Commission of India ('CCI') and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), High Court as well as Supreme Court for alleged anti competitive practices…
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Indirect Tax
Indirect taxation is a niche subject, which requires concurrent knowledge and information, as the statutes provide ample power to the Government to administer the provisions through various enabling provisions and procedures by issuing rules, regulations, notifications, tariff advise, trade notices, circulars and other administrative guidelines and manuals.
Our Firm has a robust practice in indirect taxation pursued by dedicated professionals who are adept in handling various aspects of indirect tax. The practice includes GST, foreign trade policy and procedures and other allied legislations. We also advise on anti-dumping matters. We have a vast experience, having executed work in matters of classification, valuation,…
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Labour & Employment
The Firm has an employment and labour law team, which has developed significant expertise in this area of practice and well poised to address and provide practical and solution oriented advice to all kind of employment and labour related issues faced by corporates, be it contentious or drafting of employment policies and procedures, or drafting of stock option related documents.
We have advised some of the leading corporates in addressing various employee related issues. The range of offerings involves providing opinion on various contentious issues, advising on applicability of a particular legislation to a client, strategizing with the client to…
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Estate & Succession Planning
Our estate and succession planning practice involves advising individuals as well as corporate clients on estate planning, family business restructuring, tax planning, estate litigation, creation of family trusts, family arrangements and drafting wills.
We work closely with our clients to understand their goals for succession and conduct of closely held family businesses to effectively structure their family enterprises. We develop a governance structure to tailor the needs of our clients. We offer practical solutions to our clients facing a challenge on succession planning for their closely held family businesses.
Our estate and succession planning practice works closely with the disputes…
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