India

The India group at Penningtons blends broad experience of advising Indian clients with an in-depth understanding of the global transactional environment. Our team of lawyers supports businesses of all sizes and across many sectors throughout their corporate life cycle and has particular expertise in complex cross-border transactions.

We pride ourselves on providing not just legal advice but also commercial advice in relation to entry and exit strategies for the Indian market and investments from India into the UK and Europe. We have dual-qualified lawyers with a detailed understanding of clients’ expectations and concerns, enabling us to develop bespoke solutions to meet their business objectives.

In addition, we work closely with contacts at top Indian law firms to prepare and assist our international clients with their business plans for India in areas such as joint ventures, strategic mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and dispute resolution, as well as a wide range of commercial dealings. With several lawyers who have a strong track record in a wide spectrum of India-related matters in addition to their international transactional knowledge and a select network of Indian professional firms with whom we have worked over a significant period of time, we are able to offer a practical and highly effective service to our clients.

India group services at a glance:

  • commercial advice including contracts and entry/exit strategies
  • joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions
  • establishment of subsidiaries, businesses, group structures and company secretarial work
  • onshore and offshore tax planning
  • AIM
  • banking and finance
  • business restructuring, acquisition finance and project finance
  • commercial, IP and IT
  • data protection and privacy
  • international mediation, arbitration and litigation
  • banking litigation, business structure / shareholder disputes and M&A fallout
  • immigration, work permits and highly skilled migrants
  • real estate
  • employment