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Legal services
Litigation
practice
(a)
Corporate litigation: Lon&n's extensive
corporate practice has resulted in Lon & n’s
spearheading some hard fought corporate control battles
in India over the last two decades. Lon & n offers
the benefit of a law firm that offers corporate advice
and at the same time has substantial skills in strategizing
and managing ‘control' battles in and out of court
including board control and management, orchestration
of concerted shareholders action, institution of selective
litigation in furtherance of corporate objectives and
the holistic and seamless management of corporate and
litigation activity in a hostile environment. Lon &
n has the ability to bring together the shareholder,
elements of the company and the Indian legal and regulatory
environment in furtherance of specified objectives.
In any hostile control environment, Lon & n has
capability in:
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Establishment of an appropriate strategy
to secure control of a company on behalf of a client.
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Supporting the management of a board environment
where rival parties are at issue. |
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Orchestrating shareholder activity, public or
private, to secure defined corporate control objectives.
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Securing client advantage through the creation
of an internal company environment. |
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Management of the Employee and Union constituencies
in their impact on company control battles. |
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Assisting in the formulation of an appropriate
public relations strategy, where such is appropriate.
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Initiating and resisting boardroom maneuvers as
strategy may dictate. |
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Securing legitimate regulatory intervention, where
such is advised. |
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Instituting and defending corporate ‘control'
litigation emerging from Shareholder and Board disputes
including acquisition and exit related litigation
in all forums including the Company Law Board. |
(b)
Hostile Board Representation : It is
intrinsic to our corporate litigation practice that
we accept board representation as part of strategy and
employ this tool to secure corporate control. We have
successfully implemented such strategies without becoming
embroiled in conflict of interest issues.
(c)
General civil and criminal litigation : Lon
& n offers a full feature civil and criminal trial
and appellate practice service to all its corporate
clients as part of its ‘one stop shop' personal
philosophy. Lon & n has wide experience in:
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Arbitration, domestic and international,
including arbitrations under ICC, LCIA, IMAL and
UNCITRAL rules. |
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General civil and commercial litigation throughout
the country at all levels, original and appellate
– Supreme Court of India, State High Courts,
lower courts, and adjudicating tribunals. |
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Select corporate criminal litigation including
specifically corporate frauds and tort liability.
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Property and Real Estate litigation. |
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Labor and Employee litigation. |
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Government contracts. |
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Defamation, privacy and personal injury claims.
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Product Liability claims. |
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Liability claims made against accounting firms.
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Antitrust law and consumer protection actions.
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(d)
Government Enforcement Litigation: Lon
& n's extensive corporate practice has inevitably
resulted in the acquisition of experience in Government
initiated enforcement litigation of the widest spectrum
under all applicable statutes and regulations. We have
extensive experience of defending litigation initiated
under the Companies Act, under the foreign exchange
management regime, securities regulations (SEBI), industrial
regulation statutes, human resource and labor protection
statutes, and under municipal and local laws. As a matter
of course, Lon & n practices extensively before
specialty tribunals, enforcement officers, assessing
officers, appellate tribunals, civil and company courts.
(e)
Indirect taxes: Lon & n has an extensive
practice dealing specifically with the revenue regime
facing its Indian clients and the Indian subsidiaries
of its overseas clients. Lon & n has specifically
handled a wide variety of matters relating to Excise
Duty, Central and State Sales Tax, Works Contract Tax,
Service Tax and Customs Duties. Lon & n appears
in all forums and in any part of the country and at
all levels. We have appeared before adjudicating officials,
before revenue tribunals, before High Courts and before
the Supreme Court of India. We have an impeccable track
record of resisting additional revenue claims and have
extensive skills in developing strategies to combat
predatory revenue law procedures. |
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Entertainment
and sports Law
Lon & n practice includes
work in the areas of copyright, trademark, contract,
multimedia law, intellectual property, and book publishing.
Lon & n also functions as a Producer's Rep, assisting
filmmakers in the marketing and distribution of their
films. Lon & n filmmaker clients have had award
winning films in Cannes, Toronto, Telluride and other
festivals. At Lon & n experts usually advice the
Celebrities, Flim societies, Broadcasters, Sports
Contracts, Sports persons, Actors, Producers, Film
makers,Radio Artists, Movie technicians and there
associations on how to make shrewd business decisions
and protect their interests in negotiations with production
and distribution companies.
Lon & n Instruction
covers how to anticipate problems before they arise
and how to encourage other parties to live up to their
contractual obligations through performance incentives,
default penalties, and arbitration. In the event of
a dispute, Lon & n advises the remedies available
to enforce the rights, customary terms of contracts;
negotiating tactics and strategies; properly securing
rights to the work and to avoid being sued for copyright
infringement, defamation, or invasion of privacy.
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