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This vertical specialises in initiating, defending, mediating and managing disputes current and anticipated. Its services relate to disputes or legal actions that are contentious and non-contentious and require court intervention or assistance. The vertical specialises in mediation, conciliation and arbitration also, in addition to liaising with the authorities concerned to swiftly resolve disputes or legal actions.
Our attorneys are experienced in representing domestic and multinational corporations in court litigations and arbitrations across the country and abroad and have been recognised for their successful and effective strategies and representations in many dispute resolution forums.
1. Revenue and Municipal Regulations
We represent clients in private disputes and disputes involving government agencies before revenue authorities on revenue mutations, actions initiated by and against municipal authorities for violation of municipal regulations, by-laws, etc.
2. Inheritance and Succession
Our lawyers represent clients in disputes concerning intestate and testamentary succession, such as disputes regarding the partition of properties and wills.
3. Construction and Infrastructure Development Agreements
We take up disputes involving construction and infrastructure projects, such as joint developments, build to suits and works contracts.
4. Title and Possession Disputes
We represent clients in disputes involving complex questions of title and ownership, boundaries and possession and dispossession.
5. Contract Enforcement
Our lawyers represent clients in enforcing or defending claims concerning breach of contract involving immoveable property.
6. Tenancy
Our lawyers also represent clients in landlord-tenancy disputes involving actions for eviction, recovery of rent and mesne profits, and enforcement of lock-in periods.
ALP’s attorneys, with their extensive experience across civil and criminal law enforcement actions involving intellectual property (IP) rights, understand the unique dynamics of IP litigation in India. Our experience covers initiating and driving actions to enforce IP as well as in defending clients in IP enforcement action. Our insights, based on a sound knowledge and understanding of the law, add strategic value to clients in developing tailor-made IP enforcement strategies specific to different regions of the Indian subcontinent.
The firm’s portfolio of dispute resolution services includes IP infringement actions for patents, copyrights, trade secrets, designs and trade mark litigations. We also file applications for IP registration and assisting clients in prosecuting the same. We handle matters covering the full spectrum of the litigation life cycle, from trial work to appeals.
1. Patents and Trade Secrets:
ALP attorneys have a distinguished track record of working with the technology sector, particularly emerging technologies. We have assisted clients in information technology, artificial intelligence (AI), health and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, computer-aided engineering and other domains on IP management and enforcement.
Our in-depth understanding and insight in the technology sector, coupled with our extensive experience with dispute resolution across trial and appellate forums, enables us to craft litigation strategies in patent and trade secret disputes that are best suited to a client’s interests.
Our experience is extensive and spans a wide range of industry verticals, in which we have represented both plaintiff and defendant in complex patent and trade secret disputes, achieving timely and favourable outcomes before trial and appellate forums.
2. Copyright
Copyright protects the expression of ideas and thus concerns every industry and business. We have extensive experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in litigating artist agreements, composer agreements, performer rights disputes and a range of other copyright matters, in which we have secured favourable outcomes for our clients across trial and appellate forums.
3. Trade Mark
Our lawyers have worked with clients in FMCG, technology, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, retail, manufacturing and other sectors in enforcing and defending actions against trade mark infringement and anti-counterfeiting before civil and criminal law authorities and passing off suits.
4. Designs
Designs are often essential to the aesthetically unique and distinguishing features of products. We have experience representing clients in the automobiles and electric vehicles industries to enforce and defend design elements before trial and appellate forums.
The Constitution of India touches on a vast array of subjects intricately linked with institutions, individuals and governance. The writs jurisdiction of the Indian high courts is often invoked in a variety of disputes in environmental law, labour and employment law, municipal regulations and administrative law.
Our lawyers have represented governmental bodies and non-state entities in writ actions involving the enforcement of municipal law, environmental law and labour and employment law in proceedings under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, achieving favourable outcomes for clients.
Our portfolio of services in company law covers non-contentious and contentious litigation before company law tribunals.
Non-Contentious
We routinely assist in the seeking of approvals for schemes of merger and amalgamation. We also have extensive experience representing clients in seeking approvals for schemes of compromise and arrangement. Our expertise extends to overseeing the implementation of schemes approved for compromise and arrangement.
Contentious
We have represented clients in disputes involving shareholder and share transfer agreements and proceedings to remedy oppression and mismanagement before company law tribunals and arbitration forums. Our experience in conventional and alternative dispute resolution enables us to be solution-oriented and to conceive and deliver unconventional strategies to advance our clients’ interests.
With the advent of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the dynamics of insolvency and liquidation proceedings have undergone drastic change. We prosecute and defend insolvency petitions, seek approvals for resolution plans and defend and prosecute applications in respect of avoidable transactions. Our experience in this practice area spans the full range of dispute resolution in insolvency proceedings.
Indirect Tax disputes involve tax law, constitutional law and administrative law. We have experience in disputes involving entitlement to input tax credits, disallowance of deductions and exemptions and reassessment of tax liability. In complex indirect disputes, ALP lawyers represent clients before assessing authorities, tribunals and the high courts.
Our lawyers have extensive experience representing clients in domestic and international commercial arbitrations involving shareholder disputes, construction contracts, partnership agreements, commercial lease agreements, lease operator agreements and services agreements. With our work spanning across the Middle East North Africa and the European Union along with India, we have dealt with disputes involving not only English Common Law and Indian laws, but also the Sharia and the Dutch Civil Code, in which we have achieved favourable outcomes for our clients.
Our lawyers routinely represent clients before industrial disputes tribunals, labour courts, civil courts and the high courts in transfer of personnel, employee retrenchment, promotions and wage-related disputes.
Our lawyers have represented consumers as well as product suppliers and service providers in claims concerning defective products and deficiency in service. Our experience covers disputes in psychiatric malpractice and the automobile and FMCG industries.
We represent clients across a comprehensive range of contractual disputes – labour and employment, agency agreements, technology transfer and real estate and construction agreements – in enforcing and defending allegations of breach of contract before conventional courts of law as well as in arbitration proceedings.
Government contracts and tenders involve the interplay of public procurement legislation, constitutional law and administrative law. With experience ranging from tenders involving governmental procurement of software to works contracts for infrastructure development, we assist clients in disputes involving the administration of tenders:
ALP’s lawyers run the gamut in partnership disputes, from breach of partnership agreements to actions for account of profits and dissolution of partnership.
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