Gaggar & Partners is widely recognised for its expertise in competition and antitrust matters. The disputes team is also experienced in several other areas, such as advising clients in civil commercial disputes, white-collar crime, personal laws including divorce, custody, estate management, real estate disputes and arbitrations.
It represents on all sides of the competition spectrum – sometimes for the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and at other times for domestic and international private clients. It has also been engaged separately by the investigative arm of the antitrust regulator for representation in certain sensitive cases relating to the evolving jurisprudence on investigation. The firm has been involved in most of the high-stakes and jurisprudence-setting cases in the genre across various fora. For instance, the competition team has handled the largest case in Indian competition history relating to cartels and worked on the largest penalty imposed in a case for abuse of dominance. Similarly, the firm has pioneered in cases relating to the leniency regime in India.
The key individuals for dispute resolution are managing partner Monica Lakhanpal and partner Sumedha Dang. Vaibhav Gaggar is a market-leading counsel for contentious competition matters, notably for anti-competitive agreement and abuse of dominance cases.
Recently, the firm obtained a favourable order for Mega Corporation in an SEBI appeal to examine the appeal’s scope before the Supreme Court. It is also acting for Krishna Buildestate Private in multiple writ petitions by Jaiprakash Associates challenging, inter alia, the powers of the Delhi MSE Facilitation Council to refer cases to the Delhi International Arbitration Centre. The Central Association of Private Security Industry has instructed the team for its challenge against the Department of Revenue for making amendments in the notification relating to the taxation of security services.
Key clients include Citibank, Denso Ten, Fastway Transmission, Haicheng Vivo Mobile, Hyatt Hotel, Intex Technologies, Orris Infrastructure and Toyo Tire Corporation.
