Civil law deals with disputes between individuals or organizations, often involving compensation claims. Our firm specializes in handling civil cases, including contract disputes, torts, family law matters, and property disputes. We provide robust legal support to clients, ensuring their rights and interests are effectively represented in court. Our attorneys are skilled in mediation and arbitration, aiming to resolve disputes amicably and efficiently. We are dedicated to achieving favorable outcomes for our clients through strategic legal planning and advocacy, ensuring justice and fair resolution in civil matters.

Our Banking & Finance team brings industry-leading expertise on the table and intrinsically understands the diverse needs of our clients to provide both legal and commercial solutions. We are ideally positioned to respond to changing market conditions and to offer pragmatic solutions with our innovative thinking. Our team of lawyers are hands on with the evolving legal landscape and work alongside our financial regulatory, insolvency, litigation and other specialists to offer bespoke solutions.

Our team advises on a broad range of domestic and cross-border lending transactions for lenders, investors and borrowers across the credit spectrum. The depth and breadth of our expertise means that we are ideally placed to advise on all types of financing transactions, including rupee and foreign currency financings, structured financing, including models such as co-obligor, cross collateralisation, guarantee backed and corporate funding, loan against shares, mezzanine finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, export finance, hybrid debt, securitisation, bond issuances, including private placements to domestic as well as foreign portfolio investors, masala bonds, dollar-denominated bonds, debt restructuring and resolution under various schemes of the Reserve Bank of India, stressed assets financing, last mile financing, arc financing and insolvency.

Non-performing loans and distressed assets continue to surge in a market fraught with growing uncertainty. Our restructuring and insolvency team has extensively worked on most restructuring platforms such as SICA, DRT, CDR, SARFAESI, SDR, S4A and more recently, on a vast majority of matters involving the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. We’ve closely engaged with clients on either side of loans and assets, in the domestic and international markets.

Successful debt restructuring warrants a sound understanding of issues along the lifecycle of loans and, critically, the borrower business. We leverage our nuanced commercial understanding of the objectives of diverse stakeholders such as banks, lenders, creditors, borrowers, investors, etc. to drive optimal and objective solutions in such distressed situations.

The success of our restructuring and insolvency practice is built around an inclusive approach of expert lawyers across diverse practices. Our practioners have regulatory, corporate, commercial, banking, finance, dispute, M&A and sector domain experience that helps push viable and comprehensive restructuring solutions.

A substantial part of our arbitration and dispute resolution practice arises out of complex commercial transactions. Our emphasis is on aligning litigation strategy with the commercial interests of our clients, while recognising time sensitivities. Our lawyers frequently work with other practices, such as tax, competition, intellectual property, information technology, infrastructure and energy, to provide incisive advice.

Our team has rich and wide-ranging experience in cross-border investment disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals. We work with lawyers in other jurisdictions to provide a comprehensive strategy. A large part of our clientele comprises financial institutions and funds, apart from large multinational corporations. We are market leaders in the power, aviation and oil and gas sectors, and our lawyers represent and advise transmission, distribution and generation companies, and regulatory commissions.

With a dedicated team of lawyers dealing with a wide range of disputes in the power sector, we represent clients before fora such as the Appellate Tribunal, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, and State electricity regulatory commissions. Trilegal is also recognised for its airport economics regulatory practice. Its lawyers advise and represent the Mumbai International Airport on all aspects of tariff determination before the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority and the appellate tribunal.

Our corporate practice comprises several specialist teams, each with deep expertise and a strong market reputation, that advise Indian and multinational clients on a range of transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions, as well as high-value debt restructuring, distressed asset management, special situations, and insolvency matters.

We also have deep expertise to advise on transactions in regulated sectors (such as Defense, Insurance and Banking) that involve sector-specific approvals and compliance​.

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 team is widely regarded for its ability to evaluate new and complex technology business models to help our clients identify the most commercially viable ways to commercialise these models while still adhering to the legal and regulatory constraints in the sector.

We work with technology companies looking either to provide services offshore from India or build their domestic operations here. We assist in drafting and negotiating cutting-edge technology agreements on areas as diverse as co-location, online user arrangements, payment portals, platforms, and the shared economy model. We regularly negotiate framework and local agreements across widespread jurisdictions, including Europe, North America, and South-East Asia. We are the preferred legal advisors for a wide range of emerging technology businesses in the FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech, RegTech, OTT, and streaming services sectors.

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.

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.

White collar crime in India usually find its genesis in anti-bribery and corruption laws; corporate and accounting fraud; insider trading; data privacy, protection and security; global statutes such as FCPA, UKBA; corporate compliance; and money laundering. We have extensive experience in representing clients in white collar crime matters both at a preventative and prosecution stages.

Our white collar crimes practice division advises numerous domestic and international clients. We help them conduct internal audits and create appropriate risk mitigation strategies, defence in investigations, criminal trials and appellate proceedings before courts, corporate investigations and general advisory in relation to wrongdoings attributed to promoters and other employees, proceedings to protect personal liberty, blacklisting proceedings and cancellation of contracts.

The growingly complex framework of criminal laws and rising prosecutions associated with white collar crime are increasing risks associated with running ever-complicated businesses in India. We advise our clients on all aspects of such criminal investigations and proceedings, whether at an institutional or individual level.

Our Corporate Governance practice is built on a systematically curated knowledge base and expertise in global best behaviours and practices. Our dedicated team leverages this strong foundation to help businesses enhance their reputation and take advantage of market opportunities through our value-driven, sustainable, relevant, and contemporary approach to corporate governance. This is further enhanced through holistic advice based on comparable local and international references and deep integration into the governance ecosystem, including proxy advisers and stewardship services.

With innovation at the heart of our practice, we advice corporates on how to deal with dynamic workplace situations proactively and put in place practices valued by large investors. This is helped by our drive to be ahead of the curve, whether by way of the bespoke products and intervention techniques we develop for our clients or with our Centre for Corporate Governance that undertakes focused research & analysis of regulatory and commercial trends across the world.

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.

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.