DSK Legal was set up in 2001 and has since, established an excellent reputation for its integrity and value-based proactive, pragmatic and innovative legal advice and its ability to help clients effectively traverse the complicated legal and regulatory regime in India. With offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad. DSK Legal has grown rapidly on the strength of its expertise to a multi-disciplinary team with over 250 lawyers, including 53 partners. We are modern and inclusive in our outlook, and have a solution oriented approach. We strongly promote diversity of thought, because we believe it helps us build strong teams with varied approaches and ideas to offer solutions that clients find value in.
At DSK Legal, we believe in establishing strong and enduring relationships with our clients by ensuring that we are always available to attend to our clients’ needs. It is always our endeavour to understand our client’s commercial goals. We are transparent in our working, and commit ourselves to time-bound and cost-effective advice that protects our client’s interests every time.
The reputation that we have so strenuously built for ourselves has led us to be appointed by market leading international and domestic businesses on several path breaking deals. Our advice has been sought repeatedly by Governments, and this valuable interaction has in turn helped us establish a significant knowledge base within our firm – a base that we tap into for the benefit of our clients.
Our commitment to our clients and work, attention to detail, transparent approach and formidable expertise in various areas of corporate and commercial law has not only won us recognition and awards from our peers and professional bodies, but has also attracted some of the best talent from leading law schools in India and abroad to work with us. We have strong relations with several international and domestic law firms in most jurisdictions across the world, which helps us provide clients with assistance on cross-border matters, or sometimes just introductions that our clients value.
DSK Legal’s strength lies in the quality of its lawyers. Their depth of specialization is combined with breadth of experience and a keen commercial focus.
We pride ourselves in having achieved proficiency across diverse service lines, including being recognized by legal journals for aviation, banking and finance, capital markets (debt and equity), corporate & commercial, dispute resolution, environment, foreign direct investment, intellectual property, investment funds, labour and employee benefits, life sciences, mergers & acquisitions, outsourcing, private clients, projects, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, shipping, tax (direct and indirect), technology, media and telecoms.
DSK Legal has earned a formidable reputation for its deep understanding of the Indian market and its ability to provide sophisticated legal solutions to corporate clients, that are commercially viable and technically sound. Our experience in the relevant sectors helps us straddle the full range of corporate transactions, including public and private M&A deals, joint ventures, restructurings, flotations, share offerings, securitisation, private equity funding, corporate advisory and corporate recovery.
We advise on planning and execution of transactions as well as on legal and regulatory compliance and governance issues. Our in-depth experience and knowledge of specific industries and their regulatory, financial and technological characteristics have earned us the trust of our clients and by focusing on their specific needs we create bespoke legal solutions that further their commercial interests.
DSK Legal’s clients include leading financial institutions, multinational banks and government authorities and domestic and major international corporates in sectors such as financial services, energy, infrastructure, healthcare, insurance, education, food, consumer products, technology and media.
DSK Legal’s progressive and pragmatic advice on all aspects of employment and labour law and our ability to offer valuable insights into the likely impact of labour reform have won us the trust of our business clients in this area of practice.
At DSK Legal, we understand the importance of human capital and the need for every organization to have a retention plan for the long-term success of a business. Our capabilities, therefore, are all encompassing, covering the relevant applicable Indian labour laws, regulatory requirements mandated for employers, drafting and reviewing employment contracts and staff manuals, including assistance with developing and implementing employee retention and reward plans. Our contentious and non-contentious capabilities include advice on good faith bargaining, steps to pre-empt industrial action as well as, where necessary, litigation strategy and support, as also drafting and effective implementation of applicable policies for the workplace.
Our relationships in the human resources industry gives us the ability to understand the impact of labour and employment issues on specific businesses, enabling us to create solutions that are tailor made for our clients and protect their commercial interests.
DSK Legal’s Dispute Resolution Team has been recognized for its in-depth experience and creativity in handling a wide spectrum of disputes for domestic and international clients in courts and tribunals, including representing clients in diverse domestic and international arbitrations.
More often than not, dispute resolution in India can stretch over a long period of time. With its keen sense of local jurisdictional nuance, our team has the ability to move quickly and make each hearing effective, so that our clients feel supported throughout the entire process. While we appreciate a business’s determination to pursue legal remedies, we are pragmatic in our approach and understand the need to balance financial exposure against other interests. We work out a dispute resolution strategy in close coordination with our clients, aiming to resolve disputes as quickly and as cost effectively as possible. The drafting is done in-house, keeping in mind the best interest of our clients while lucidly putting forth their case. Our team works effectively with international law/consulting firms to deliver seamless solutions in cross-border cases.
DSK Legal’s clients include multinationals, Indian corporates, banks, funds and investors, real estate developers, governmental authorities and high net-worth individuals.
rnational developers, property owners, government entities / agencies, corporate houses, warehousing and logistics companies, hotel operators, educational institutions, offshore and domestic funds / lenders, investors, contractors, financial institutions, landlords and tenants. Our strength lies in our in-depth understanding of the local legal and regulatory environment which, when coupled with the delivery of our advice, enables us to provide cost-effective, practical and commercial advice, whilst ensuring legal compliance.
The experience of the team extends not only to traditional real estate but also to its practice of modern day commercial real estate. Our firm has won the trust of its clients by offering end-to-end innovative and solution-based advice within an established timeframe.
In addition to the above, the team also provides dispute resolution services, which includes regional and multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration, as well as other forms of alternative dispute resolution and associated legal services. Whether our clients are desirous of acquiring or disposing of real estate, making investments or providing debt funding, raising capital or any other form of funding, creating a tax efficient investment vehicle, implementing a development project or asserting their rights before a court of law, DSK Legal works side by side with the client’s in-house team to ensure that the organization’s reputation and commercial goals are protected. Where a foreign entity is involved with a domestic business, the team also works closely with international law firms or consulting firms to provide a single point of contact with the client.
The rapid advance of technology and the modernization of the Indian economy has led to a steep rise in white collar crimes. DSK Legal’s white collar practice has kept pace with the evolving legal and regulatory regime in India and abroad. The strength of our white collar practice is bolstered by the skills of our related teams, in particular, our banking and finance, corporate, dispute resolution and tax teams.
As foreign investments come into the country, Indian companies tied to corporations in the U.S and the U.K are increasingly exposed to investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 1977 and UK Bribery Act, 2010. Additionally, as anti-corruption laws have become more stringent in India, it has become incumbent on the directors of companies to put in place a mechanism to prevent fraud and corruption. Our team ensures that our clients are compliant with Indian and foreign law at every step of a transaction, while also putting in place a safety net in a post-transaction scenario. Our solutions cover fraud or breach of security incidents, including incidents concerning kickbacks, bribery and intellectual property theft.
