Boutique commercial firm Veritas Legal has steadily grown since its establishment in 2015. Its dispute resolution team handles contentious corporate and commercial matters across all practice areas, offering litigation and arbitration services, and this work accounts for almost a third of the firm’s entire law practice. It has developed an active white-collar crime practice and has strong reviews for its real estate offering. To date, the firm has completed more than 500 filings across different forums in India. This year the firm climbs up a notch in the government and regulatory rankings.
Head of litigation and dispute resolution Rahul Dwarkadas leads the group that includes partners Neveille Mukerji and Prachi Dhanani.
The firm is assisting the co-founder of People Interactive India in various disputes with other shareholders and directors of the company. The client has filed an oppression and mismanagement proceeding in the NCLT after attempts were made by other shareholders to take over the board and sell shares of the company to a competitor. The judgment passed in the proceedings in Singapore decided the point of law as to whether the law of the seat of arbitration or proper law of the arbitration agreement should be applied to determine the arbitrability of disputes. There is little jurisprudence on this point of law and the judgment is one of first few precedents that deal with and decide on such issue.
The team is acting for Deloitte regarding a criminal complaint filed before the Special Court by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). It is also representing Sanofi India before the Bombay High Court in a civil writ petition filed against the company. Forbes Technosys has engaged the firm for a matter relating to financial fraud and the lawyers are representing the client in an insolvency petition before the NCLT.
The firm counts Armstrong, Bombay Stock Exchange, Central Depository Services, Honeywell, Lodha Group, Schloss Hma Private and Tata Group as key disputes clients.
Neveille Mukerji
“He is very diligent.”
