Khaitan & Co is one of India's oldest and recognised full service law firms.
Built on foundations of integrity, simplicity, dedication and professionalism, the Firm has expanded its presence in India from Kolkata (1911) to New Delhi (1970) to Bangalore (1994) to Mumbai (2001) to Chennai (2021) and in Singapore (2021). The Firm takes pride in its steady growth and celebrated its centenary year in 2011 (11 November 2011).
The Firm has a strength of more than 850+ fee earners including 220 partners and directors in its offices. In addition to the fee-earners, Khaitan & Co and has over 1000 employees working for it.
We advise leading companies and financial institutions on a wide spectrum of complex corporate and commercial issues. Working with our clients on such issues contributes greatly to our understanding of their businesses, which in turn enhances our services on transactional or litigation matters.
Our expertise is built on experience in advising all commercial contracts ranging from joint ventures and strategic alliances, complex contractual collaborations, licensing arrangements, product development, manufacturing and supply alliances. We advise high-profile market leaders on both contractual and non-contractual commercial issues such as data privacy and protection.
Clients need comprehensive advice to structure these complex arrangements and we call upon our award-winning practitioners in Corporate, Tax, Intellectual Property, Competition / Antitrust, Dispute Resolution and Regulatory teams to help clients anticipate issues and formulate successful strategies.
Our dispute resolution practice offers services spread across litigation, arbitration, regulatory and pre-disputes advisory assignments. We actively represent clients on a gamut of litigations in India before various forums such as the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, Tribunals, Appellate and Regulatory bodies. Our robust team advises clients on complex domestic and international commercial arbitration matters such as pre-arbitration strategy, settlement discussions, representation during arbitral proceedings and recognition and enforcement of awards or challenges.
Our expertise across regulatory framework in India transcends the businesses of banking and finance, insolvency and restructuring law, corporate law, competition law, environmental law, electricity law, data privacy and cyber security, financial services, fraud and financial crime or other laws. The dispute resolution practice works seamlessly with other practices within the firm to deliver focussed and commercial advice to the client and also work closely with international law firm on international matters involving Indian laws.
Khaitan & Co has been involved in several landmark judgments that have impacted the regulatory regime in India. Our robust and well-regarded arbitration practice has been involved in obtaining many landmark awards both domestically and internationally for our clients. Our dispute resolution practice is by far the most varied and experienced of most Indian full-service law firms.
Khaitan’s ELB practice helps employers meet the myriad challenges posed by the modern Indian workplace.
We are experienced in advising on all forms of employment law matters and contracts; our expertise also lies in advising on complicated labour issues.
Our lawyers provide commercially oriented and practical advice on areas and events around business sale and acquisitions, change of ownership, employee benefits including equity based incentive schemes, employment agreements and policies, workplace diversity and discrimination issues. We routinely conduct staff training on workplace ethics and anti-bribery issues. We also work closely with our clients on CXO recruitment, exits and separation agreements, secondment and consulting agreements, employee disputes and disciplinary inquiries and investigations and sexual harassment related situations. We also specialise in contract labour and alternate employment arrangements, whistle blower complaints, employee grievance redressal, workforce restructuring, staff re-classification and mobility, workplace health and safety issues as well as immigration advisory.
Our well-recognised private client practice group, which comprises of professionals with the necessary expertise and experience on areas like trusts, taxation, wills and other testamentary instruments, obtaining probates, approvals from regulators, advice pertaining to corporate and securities laws and court related dispute resolution. The team further draws upon its expertise in other areas of practice such as real estate and intellectual property.
Our private client practice advises a range of national and international clients including large promoters, global Indian families, banks and financial institutions with respect to their private client needs, trustees, family offices, and HNIs
We advise clients on drafting family constitutions, restructuring family businesses, creation of trusts and wills, migration of residency and change of citizenship. With over 100 years in the industry, we understand the intrinsic importance that family values provide in building a successful and sustainable institution and we have the necessary expertise to deliver viable and long-lasting solutions for the needs of such families and their estates.
Over the years, Khaitan’s dedicated IP team has become one of the largest practices among full-service law firms in India working with a wide range of clients from diverse sectors such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, mechanical engineering, technology, retail, etc.
Our Intellectual Property (IP) lawyers advice across the life cycle of patents, designs, trademarks, copyrights, plant varieties, domain names, geographical indications, biodiversity matters, trade secrets and confidential information.
Our team comprises legal and technical professionals, collaboratively leveraging on clients’ commercial, strategic and technical interests to offer bespoke, pragmatic as well as cost-effective solutions. We assist diverse clients on local/international filings, prosecution, advisory, transactions and enforcement matters.
Consistent economic growth and increasing urbanisation has buoyed the Indian real estate industry. The last decade witnessed a remarkable growth in residential and commercial property projects. It also saw the emergence of a complex ecosystem that eventually drove the enactment of Real Estate Regulation Act. The country has also witnessed a large swing towards the development of sophisticated warehousing space.
Our real estate practice has the specialist skills and experience to deliver a seamless value proposition across most stages of the asset lifecycle. We complement our legal skills and commercial acumen to provide the most appropriate counsel on title due diligence, transactions, joint development projects, construction contracts, lease contracts, financing deals and dispute resolution.
This team has worked on some of the largest, most prominent and complex engagements for a broad spectrum of clients such as land owners, developers, construction companies, investors, lenders, corporates, and HNI buyers. The team is able to leverage its experience and knowhow of local regulatory issues and past engagements with various state authorities and regulators to provide commercial and outcome-driven advice.
Our market-leading insurance practice provides the full spectrum of legal services to insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, investment banks, investors and policyholders. We have in-depth knowledge and understanding of the legal, regulatory and commercial issues faced by the insurance industry in India and regularly act on the cutting edge of Indian insurance work.
Our team regularly advises on complex M&A and PE transactions in the insurance sector, as part of growth, market entry or consolidation strategies (or disposals as investors or partners exiting their investments), regulatory matters, insurance registrations, distribution channels and networks, fund raising (public offerings and debt issuances), restructuring, litigation and digital platforms.
We have been recognised as “a go-to firm for insurance matters” in India by Legal 500, which also cites a number of our partners as market leaders in this sector.
We are a trusted adviser to several leading international insurers and reinsurers, private equity and sovereign funds and large Indian corporate groups active in this sector. We have a demonstrated history of acting on some of the most complicated and diverse insurance engagements. Our expertise includes the structuring and execution of market entry and exit strategies and insurance registration; high-value M&A transactions, including cross-border transactions; private equity transactions (acquisition of controlling stakes as well as minority investments and disposals/ exits thereafter); group reorganisations and restructurings; distribution arrangements, including bank-assurance arrangements and digital platforms; outsourcing arrangements; regulatory issues including liaising with the Insurance regulator; initial public offerings; debt issuances; and high-value litigations / disputes.
Our in-depth sector knowledge and understanding of the regulatory dynamics together with our innovative and solution-oriented approach allows us to provide robust, focused, practical and innovative solutions for our clients, distinguishing us from our competition in India. In particular, our clients benefit from the breadth of our transactional, advisory and regulatory experience, which means that we can provide clients with perspective on the most complex issues, and our understanding of our clients’ commercial goals, which enables us to deliver a high-quality and responsive service to help our clients achieve their objectives.
