Practice Areas

We regularly advise on M&A, asset purchases, joint ventures, post-acquisition restructuring, slump sales, merger control and competition law. With a diverse network across multiple jurisdictions, we offer the ability to advise on, structure and manage cross-border deals.

Our lawyers have extensive experience advising on private equity & venture capital transactions, having advised investors and investee companies, investment banks, management teams and employees on complex investment deals in India and abroad.

While our Dispute Resolution practice is conceived of as a general offering, we tend to specialise in shareholder disputes, insolvency matters, corporate governance, employment & labour disputes, intellectual property disputes, and technology, data protection & media disputes.

Our team represents clients in trial, appellate and regulatory courts and tribunals across the country, and in domestic and international arbitral fora. We also assist clients with pre-litigation strategy and risk mitigation.

Our Privacy and Data Protection practice focuses on the evolving technological, business and legal issues relating to the privacy and security of data. With India making rapid strides towards digitisation and a robust legal framework for privacy and data protection, businesses face an unprecedented need to upgrade their privacy standards to avoid potential liabilities and meet mandatory compliance requirements.

Our team adopts an innovative approach, engaging with clients on key compliance requirements — including awareness and teach-in sessions — and on the implementation of customised solutions.

We advise clients on all aspects of tax, including:

• Tax Disputes & Investigations — from pre-emptive advice to litigation, with experts dedicated full-time to resolving disputes with tax authorities.
• Trade & Customs — extensive experience across international trade law, including customs, trade defence, export controls and sanctions.
• Employee Incentives & Benefits — designing, drafting and implementing incentive arrangements for a wide range of clients.
• White Collar Crime — combining tax-crime lawyers, financial and forensic-crime specialists and behavioural-change consultants across all areas of financial crime.

White Stone Legal has diverse and substantial expertise in insolvency and restructuring. Our corporate recovery and restructuring practice works closely with the Dispute Resolution practice. The scope of work includes:

• Formulating strategy on debt restructuring and corporate restructuring.
• Options and strategies in the event of counterparty insolvency or financial distress.
• Advising financial creditors, operational creditors, corporate debtors and insolvency professionals on all aspects — including general corporate and commercial laws, specific insolvency advice, and legal due diligence on the company’s affairs, debts and assets.
• Advising potential acquirers or sellers of distressed businesses or assets — through statutory insolvency, pre-packaged sales or financially distressed situations.
• Advising directors and officers on the risks arising in periods of financial uncertainty or actual or impending liquidation.
• Filing applications with the NCLT and preparing claims for insolvency resolution professionals.
• Preparing and reviewing the resolution plan.
• Implementing the plan — including drafting restructuring documentation and advising on stake sales, business or asset transfers.
• Representing clients before the NCLT, NCLAT, High Courts and the Supreme Court.

Our Corporate & Commercial team advises clients at every stage of their growth — from incorporation and growth to restructuring and insolvency. We regularly advise on a diverse set of domestic and cross-border matters across numerous industry sectors. Combined with our generalist transactional expertise, we also assist on specialist areas such as corporate governance, anti-trust and competition advisory, financial-sector regulation, data protection, intellectual property, and employment and benefits.

We regularly advise on policies, laws and regulations relating to:

• Structuring of investment vehicles
• Inbound and outbound investments
• Exchange control regime
• Strategic licences and collaborations
• Technology transfers & licensing
• Technical assistance & services arrangements
• Governmental & regulatory compliance and approvals
• Telecom licensing & technological collaborations
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning partnerships across sectors
• Payment systems and FinTech products / service offerings

White Stone Legal provides legal advice on all aspects of turnkey projects, infrastructure projects and other heavy construction works — including EPC contracts, supply contracts, installation & commissioning contracts, design & build contracts, and joint bidding & joint venture agreements.

Our IP team comprises professionals with an expert grounding in every aspect of patent, trademark, copyright & design prosecution — vis-à-vis business transactions (structuring, licensing, franchising, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions) and litigation (including enforcement and anti-piracy).