OUR SERVICES
ARBITRATION AND ADR
As Indian legal system is comprised of one of the world’s greatest legal tradition, SNP’s arbitration team can manage complex arbitrations, with thorough familiarity of both major legal traditions. Our national litigation software support and our team of paralegals are unparalleled in India and is able to support any type of complex and document-intensive arbitration.
Our arbitration practice also includes advising clients and representing them in all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including principled negotiations, mediation, early neutral intervention, mini-trial and other forms of ADR.
We also draft arbitration agreements, contracts and represent clients in statutory and contractual arbitration proceedings according to the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and ICC Rules. We advise clients on appropriate venue of arbitration, the choice of procedural and substantive law and the differences between domestic arbitration and International commercial arbitration under Indian and International Law. We counsel clients on the mechanism available under Indian Law for seeking a stay of a reference to arbitration, challenging the maintainability of arbitration and challenging the enforcement of a domestic as well as foreign award. SNP is at the leading edge of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. With many-folds potential remedies for disputes, our Arbitration Practice pursues the best solution for each client and each dispute.
BANKING AND FINANCE
We represent financial institutions across the globe through our banking and financial services litigation practice group. Our team helps clients in providing and obtaining finances through commercial credit facilities, private placements of equity and debts, asset securitizations, leveraged leases and various other structured financings, leasing transactions, hedging and other derivatives transactions..
Our team extensive, full-service business and finance practice represents and advise major emerging businesses, lenders, developers and utilities, as well as individual, in a variety of commercial and financial transactions.
Representative areas of experience include the following:
➢ Acquisition, financing, development and sale of hotel, office, industrial, retail and commercial properties.
➢ Commercial lending and project finance
➢ Letters of credit and other credit enhancement structures
➢ Public and structured finance
➢ Agent’s or participants’ counsel in syndicated credit facilities
➢ Equipment finance and leasing, including leveraged leasing
➢ Debt restructuring
➢ Oil and gas financing
➢ Business franchising and franchisee representation
➢ Governmental and regulatory counseling
➢ Management agreements
➢ General contract negotiation, including computer software and licensing contracts, and sales, supply and service contracts.
➢ Partnerships and limited liability companies
➢ Maritime finance, including vessel and shipyard construction and modernization financing
➢ Approval of Prospectus
➢ Asset Management
➢ Banking Regulation
➢ Bank Merger and Acquisition
➢ Bonds
➢ Consortium lending
➢ Debt securities
➢ Development financing
➢ Establishment/Closure of banking office
➢ Floatation
➢ Foreign exchange
➢ Leasing and asset finance
➢ Loan documentation
➢ Management buy outs and buy ins
➢ Private placements
➢ Public offerings
➢ Restructuring and compliances
➢ Securitization of movable and immovable assets
➢ Stock exchange listings
➢ Trade finance
➢ VentureCapitalFund
SNP facilitates its clients with timely and cost effective solutions to every kind of transaction. By virtue of our extensive experience and comprehensive approach in almost all the regulatory sectors of commercial banking and finance we are one of the preferred destinations for domestic clients.
CORPORATE
SNP’s Corporate Practice focuses on the business objectives of its clients and as we utilize the depth of our experience and resources to help our clients in achieving their goals with constantly changing business landscapes. We believe that no other law firm offers corporate clients the combined benefits of local presence . Our reach extends to everywhere our clients want or need to be, from raising capital, to doing deals, to complying with regulations, to managing risk, to implementing best practices, our cumulative experience is extraordinary, and our commitments to services are unmatched.
We are acquainted with the fact that our clients’ needs often demand work beyond a standard workday. So we make sure that we are accessible to clients, providing the receptiveness of a small, local law firm, We stay abreast of evolving laws and regulatory issues and we make sure that our clients are prepared to address them.
SNP’s Corporate Practice group advice public and privately held companies on
➢ Amalgamation
➢ Asset Acquisitions
➢ Corporate Legal Opinion
➢ Company Law Board Practice
➢ Corporate Reorganization and Reconstruction
➢ Corporatization and Privatization
➢ Drafting and Vetting
➢ Due Diligence
➢ Foreign Direct Investment
➢ Foreign Investment Proposals
➢ Foreign Investment Promotion Board
➢ Company Incorporation
➢ Import and Export Code Liquidations
➢ Joint Ventures/ Shareholders Agreement
➢ Mergers and Demergers
➢ RBI compliances
➢ ROC compliances
➢ Statutory filings under Company Law
➢ Takeover
➢ Winding Up
CYBER & IT
SNP is a boutique law firm concentrating in internet and technology legal issues, which focus its practices in intellectual property matters such as litigation , domain name disputes , copy right and trademark. Also it ponders on information technology concerns, such as e-commerce, privacy, entertainment law and technology licenses.
SNP also provides legal assistants to its clients with respect to computer hacking, identity theft( credit card theft, illegal bank account excess , internet scams ), privacy (illegal downloading music, copyright law for books, plagiarism, illegal downloading DVDS), invasion of privacy , reading others email, hacking, cracking , phone phreaking, conversion of property( CPU theft), child pornography, economy espionage ( system penetration from outside the company, computer virus , overloading a website, eavesdropping, spying and downloading unauthorized data), registering complaints to internet complaint center, fraud, including stock manipulation, internet action fraud, cyber stacking and harassing speech, sale of prescription drugs over internet, prosecution of internet gambling or the easy dissemination of digital copyright works, tracing on internet fraud cases etc.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
SNP’s Environment Practice Group represents clients over the full gamut of environmental issues. Where in it regularly counsels clients in every substantive field of environmental law including air, water, solid waste, hazardous chemicals, infectious waste, underground storage tanks and pollution insurance. We have extensive experience with the full range of environmental, health, and safety laws that relate to litigation, transactional, and regulatory compliance matters.
We regularly counsel clients on environmental impact statements, water discharge permits, waste disposal authorizations, and air emission permits. Our team help navigate the significant uncertainty that has been created by new or contemplated rules to address major sources, mercury emissions, NOx, regional haze, and even greenhouse gases. Our team has deep understanding of the requirements and opportunities presented by regulation of climate change emissions in India and across the world.
Additionally, we advise clients on environmental attributes and “green tag” trading under various Indian state renewable portfolio standards, as well as the developing international infrastructure for the regulation of greenhouse gases, including the Kyoto Protocol.
The dedicated team at SNP national environmental practice advises clients on all aspects of complex environmental matters, including technical and scientific issues, health-based risk assessments, political concerns, land use issues, litigation exposures, insurance issues, cleanup strategies, government agency interactions, regulatory requirements and permitting issues.
Our environmental practice embraces a wide range of needs by focusing our practice on the following areas:
➢ Air and Water Quality
➢ Asbestos
➢ Assistance for obtaining necessary permits, approvals, exemptions
➢ Compliance advice concerning new and existing statutes and regulations
➢ Construction related environmental issues
➢ Counseling on issues relating to eco-auditing and eco-assessment
➢ Due diligence assessment and allocation of environmental implications for mergers and acquisitions, lease requirements
➢ Environmental Audit
➢ Environmental Litigation ➢ Environmental Insurance
➢ Green Buildings
➢ Mold Investigation, Remediation and Litigation
➢ National and International Legislations and Treaties
➢ Obtaining environmental clearances for infrastructure projects
➢ Pollution Control in any environmental medium
➢ Product Standards Permitting and Enforcement
➢ Site Cleanups
➢ Solid and Hazardous Waste Management.
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SNP’s immigration practice group provides comprehensive legal support to assist domestic, clients in transfer of personnel abroad by ensuring issuance of the proper immigration documents in foreign jurisdictions.
We assist our clients in their efforts to avoid litigation, including counseling on every aspect of employment law.
The group is particularly effective in representing our immigration clients, as members of our group come from culturally diverse backgrounds and are able to communicate effectively in English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Urdu and many other languages.
Our team provides clients with a full range of immigration and naturalization legal services which are carefully crafted to reflect each client’s goals and objectives. Through a comprehensive knowledge of the legal, political and business context in which immigration and naturalization concerns arises, the Immigration Practice Group assists clients to operate successfully in a world in which capital and business opportunities have no borders.
LIASONING
Our team helps clients in liasoning in India as well as across the world with the registration following
➢ Agmark ➢ Barcode ➢ C.E.
➢ Company incorporation
➢ Domain name
➢ Export import license
➢ F.D.C
➢ G.M.P
➢ Hallmark
➢ Hotel
➢ IEC
➢ ISI
➢ ISO
➢ Labor factory
➢ License of fire
➢ NSIC
➢ Pollution Control
➢ Shops and Establishments
➢ All type of company related government licenses.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT
SNP takes a multi-disciplinary approach to today’s emerging issues in the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property assets. We are uniquely positioned with a full-service IP practice that is fully integrated with other practices, providing antitrust guidance on transactions and competition disputes and unsurpassed appellate capabilities before the Supreme Court and Tribunals. Because today’s economy transcends national borders, we offer comprehensive assistance in key business centers around the world.
We advice our clients on the selection, availability, use and registration of copyright, design, logo, patent, trade mark, trade/business secrets applications within India and abroad. This practice area contains several individuals with scientific backgrounds to facilitate patent prosecution. We also have attorneys who have extensive experience in the litigation of intellectual property conflicts. In addition, our team is also experienced in negotiating and drafting a variety of license agreements.
LITIGATION
SNP has a expert and dedicated team of lawyers representing clients in the Supreme Court, High Courts, District Courts, forums, Company Law Board and various tribunals. With its strategically located offices spread worldwide SNP ensures a fully integrated and cost effective service.
We deal in all types of Civil, Criminal and Commercial Litigation in all Courts across India.
TAXATION
SNP law firm advise its clients in matters of taxation laws and add value to their business and transactions. Our team helps clients on a varied range of tax issues, from complicated cross-border transactions to tax exemption qualification and planning for local nonprofit organizations. The taxation law experts of SNP law firm has a thorough understanding of new business structures, such as limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships and other unincorporated entities. Our Team comprises of lawyers having specialized knowledge in the field of commercial taxations such as customs duty, excise duty, sales Tax, Corporate and personal income tax, off shore tax planning, International tax planning …etc.
At SNP, we believe it is imperative to keep up with the latest developments in the field of taxation laws. As taxation laws evolve and change, the taxation law experts works towards anticipating those changes and devising new strategies and techniques will help reduce the various transactional costs for our clients.
The taxation law experts at SNP also counsel our clients in matters relating to the tax aspects of retirement plans, commercial transactions, sales, mergers, reorganizations, tax controversies, and preparation of business, fiduciary, and personal tax returns. Moreover, our law firm’ taxation law experts try to assist our prestigious multinational clients on double taxation avoidance treaties that India has with various countries, the tax holidays available to 100% Export Oriented Units, Special Economic Zones, etc. SNP also advise its business clients on the tax consequences of varied business organizations and assist in the resolution of tax problems which arise during the life of the business.
Our team also provides planning advice to minimize, defer or avoid taxation in proposed transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and redemptions of business and like kind exchanges.
Access and responsiveness with common sense analysis is the standard by which our work will be judged.