Address:
202-206, Tolstoy House
Tolstoy Marg
New Delhi, 110001
India
Chairman: CR Dua
Number of lawyers : 250
Number of partners : 75
Network memberships : The Firm’s memberships and affiliations with appropriate national and international Bar Associations and Councils, Law Societies and Business/Trade-related chambers, stand supplemented with close, long- standing professional relationships with leading law firms across the world as well as various counsels and senior counsels in India, enabling it to assist clients in the largest and most complicated of transactions and disputes.
Languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Telegu, Marathi
Established in 1986, Dua Associates is one of India’s prominent law firms, serving a wide spectrum of clients .The Firm is well known for its experience in complex litigation and arbitration matters, delivering high standards of quality across a variety of litigation disciplines ranging from high value contractual disputes to white-collar/regulatory investigations to complex disputes involving the environment, constitution and administrative laws, intellectual property, M&A, and other commercial litigation. The Firm recognizes the impact any litigation has on business and manages the disputes with a clear understanding of the client’s commercial objectives. The key litigation lawyers of the firm are Sr Solicitor Shiraz Patodia, Partner L.K. Bhushan, Partner Amit Dhingra, Partner Ganesh Chandru, Partner Rajdeep Panda, Partner George Joseph, Partner Robin David. Key clients for the Dispute Resolution practice include The Dow Chemical Company Eastman Kodak Company , Commercial Bank of Dubai, TransAsia Private Capital LimitedDuPont , ELCA Cosmetics Pvt Ltd, Decathlon Sports India, Sadara Chemical CompanySWAMIH Investment Fund - Govt. of IndiaPiramal Capital and Housing Finance Limited, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Limited, HSBC and Altico Capital India Limited among others. Dua Associates’ litigation and arbitration/ alternative dispute resolution practice represents companies involved in business-critical lawsuits including IPR, taxation, white collar with focus on helping clients’ businesses succeed. Additionally, several partners of the Firm continue to be individually ranked and awarded for stellar contributions in Dispute Resolution. This practice group across the major cities in India works collaboratively with one another while building productive relationships with eminent Senior Counsels to effectively assist clients in the most complex and high-stakes disputes. The team comprises of courtroom-tested lawyers who have appeared in significant and challenging cases around the country. The Firm also has a robust and dedicated Supreme Court presence through “Dua Associates AoR”, a firm of Advocates-on-Record registered with the Supreme Court. The Advocates-on-Record of the firm forms the bulwark of the Supreme Court practice, ably supported by other partners of the Firm. The other seven offices of the Firm are in complete sync with the Supreme Court practice of the Firm and work seamlessly with the team in Delhi.
The firm has acted on behalf of clients from sectors as varied as aviation, corporates, asset reconstruction firms, non-banking financial companies and banks, amongst others. The experience in addressing complex issues with reference to stakeholders including committee of creditors, public sector, international banks and distressed debtors in corporate restructurings, enables the team to offer valuable insights and perspective to clients. Dua Associates’ Insolvency& Bankruptcy practice has grown significantly, and the firm represents all stakeholders in the insolvency process, be it a financial creditor, corporate debtor, resolution professional, homebuyers and so on.
Dua Associates acted on behalf of The Dow Chemical Company and Union Carbide Corporation in a high stakes and complex litigation before the Supreme Court of India. A five-judge constitutional bench reserved its verdict on Union of India’s curative petition for enhanced compensation to victims of the industrial disaster that occurred in Bhopal in 1984 after a 3-day hearing in January 2023.
And on March 14 2023, Dua Associates led by Senior Solicitor Ms Shiraz Patodia, won the high profile, high stakes and extremely complex litigation before the Supreme Court of India.
The Apex Court’s decision in the matter is a landmark one as it covered within its ambit all aspects that relate to the scope and maintainability of a ‘curative petition’ in the current legal regime in India. It is also of great importance as the Supreme Court has opined on the civil liability of a successor corporation and vicarious liability of a corporation in a mass (environmental) tort action as well as question amenability to jurisdiction over a foreign corporation.The matter was worth over INR 7413 crores
704-705, Global Business Park, Tower 'B' Mehrauli - Gurgaon Road
Gurgaon 122002
Telephone: +91 (124) 2803366 / 3367
Fax: +91 (124) 2803370
Email: duagrg@duaassociates.com