India

Firm overview

Obhan & Associates (O&A) is a highly skilled and professionally managed full-service law firm in India, offering end-to-end services in intellectual property law and corporate law, consistently ranking among India’s best law firms, including among the top five IP firms.

Practice Areas:

Intellectual Property: Our IP team comprises multi-disciplinary legal and technical experts. Our services include the preparation, filing, and prosecution of patents, designs, trademarks, and copyright applications in India and overseas. We also advise on IP transactions, litigation, dispute resolution, and rights enforcement globally. The team regularly advises on global patent portfolio and patent prosecution management.

Corporate Law and M&A: Our experienced corporate team provides legal services at all phases of the business cycle, from incorporation to exits. We offer complete and integrated transactional, contractual support and advisory services, specialising in M&A transactions, commercial contracts, and corporate advisory support.

Litigation: Our litigation team specialises in corporate and commercial disputes. We provide strategic solutions and attain favourable outcomes, whether through litigation avoidance, settlement negotiation, or assertive courtroom advocacy. We have a proven track record in high-stakes IP litigation and representing leading publishing houses in defamation disputes.

Other Practices: Our team also provides guidance and representation in data protection, privacy laws, cybersecurity, media & entertainment, and advertisement.

The Firm has been described as ‘meticulous and quick’ in its service and advice. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional service and value, building meaningful and long-lasting client relationships, and providing responsive and tailored services. Our well-balanced domestic and international clientele represent a cross-section of industries, including software, digital technologies, pharmaceuticals and biotech, engineering, fast-moving consumer goods, apparel, and media houses.

Firm overview

Firm overview

Trilegal has a market-leading full-service Disputes practice led by lawyers with rich experience in handling arbitration and dispute resolution proceedings at courts and arbitral tribunals. The firm has significant expertise in handling end-to-end commercial litigation across sectors and devising litigation strategies aligned with the client’s commercial objectives. The team routinely works on litigation pertaining to competition law and anti-trust issues, white-collar crimes, financial regulations, and restructuring and insolvency, with high levels of efficiency and innovative approaches to minimise costs.
 
The practice is adept at aligning disputes strategy with the clients’ commercial interests while recognising time sensitivities and working closely with global corporations, financial institutions, high-net-individuals, and domestic and foreign corporates. Owing to our extensive experience in leading high-profile litigations involving complex legal issues, the firm has garnered the reputation of being a market leader in the power, aviation and oil and gas sectors.The practice has represented and advised transmission, distribution and generation companies, and regulatory commissions with such precision on multi-dimensional aspects that clients appreciate our ability to seamlessly collaborate with other practice areas within the firm to provide holistic and end-to-end solutions. Trilegal is also recognised for its airport economics regulatory practice as the lawyers frequently advise and represent the Mumbai International Airport on all aspects of tariff determination before the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority and the appellate tribunal.
 
In addition, our team has comprehensive strength in handling all types of litigations, spanning across forums, including the Supreme Court, various High Courts, tribunals, and other regulatory and quasi-judicial commissions. A substantial portion of the firm’s caseload comprises major international components. The team has successfully delivered on some multi-jurisdictional mandates, for example, in sensitive M&A-related disputes and complex commercial transactions.
 
Trilegal is also a key name in the market for commercial and international arbitration. We appear before all major national and international arbitration institutions and have successfully represented clients in some of the most significant arbitrations, particularly involving complex shareholder disputes and mega infrastructure projects.
 
Additionally, we are adept at handling the full scope of White-Collar Crime matters, while representing clients in high-profile matters, including issues of economic offences, serious fraud investigation, anti-corruption, anti-bribery, money laundering, cyber fraud, and extradition, amongst others. The firm has in-depth expertise in advising and assisting clients and their employees during criminal investigations, including representing them before all investigating agencies, including CBI, ED, SFIO and DRI, NCB, and local police authorities as well as before various courts and forums. Our expertise includes regularly dealing with inquiries and criminal matters spread across jurisdictions and conducting internal investigations, due diligence and overall risk assessment in matters relating to regulatory enforcement, whistleblower and corporate misconduct allegations. A large part of our clientele consists of large multinational corporations
 
Our disputes practice also works in collaboration with its banking, infrastructure and other practice areas to be a one-stop-shop for insolvency and bankruptcy issues at all levels. With its vast technical expertise, our team is well-placed to represent its clients (dominant banks, financial institutions, borrowers or insolvency professionals) across prominent sectors. In recent years, our lawyers have established a strong track record of advising troubled companies and their creditors, debtors and investors, aside from various committees and professionals, on high-value and complex corporate and debt Restructuring and Insolvency issues.
 
The Disputes team also works closely with the firm’s Financial Regulatory team, which has comprehensive strengths in conducting regulatory inquiries and inspections, and advising on whistleblower and investor complaints, as well as investigations/summons from regulatory and governmental authorities. We have represented clients in proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Securities Appellate Tribunal and the Supreme Court of India, aside from dealing with the Reserve Bank of India and the Financial Intelligence Unit on regulatory show cause notices. Our lawyers regularly assist with internal investigations on regulatory non-compliance, risk management and mitigation, evaluating potential insider trading, front-running or other market conduct issues. We undertake compliance reviews and advise in disciplinary proceedings against employees for such violations.
 
With such a broad spectrum of services, Trilegal’s Disputes practice continues to grow by adding new Partners who further bolster the firm’s offerings in established and emerging dispute practice areas.

Firm overview

LexOrbis is a premier full-service IP law firm with over 300 personnel, including 160+ attorneys, at its four offices in India: New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai .

Over the past decade, LexOrbis has consistently ranked among the top 5 IP firms in India and is well-known for managing the global patents, designs, and trademark portfolios of many technology companies and brand owners. LexOrbis offers comprehensive IP lifecycle management services through specialised departments, covering trademark, copyright, patent filing, search and analytics, portfolio development, IP rights enforcement, litigation, procurement, and client advisory.

The firm has dedicated teams, including attorneys, engineers, scientists, paralegals, and technical specialists who handle patent, trademark, and copyright matters, from filing to research, portfolio management, enforcement, protection, transaction, and consultation. LexOrbis has continuously been providing client-oriented, cost-efficient, and precision global legal solutions for intellectual property protection, enforcement, commercialisation, and transactions. The teams possess subject matter expertise in managing IP portfolios for Fortune 500 companies, technology leaders, start-ups, individual innovators, universities, and research institutions.

The firm has over 120 patent attorneys across engineering and science practice groups. The attorneys hold industry expertise and proficiency in the fields of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, information and communication technologies (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, big data, mechanical, electrical & electronics, chemical and pharmaceutical, biotechnology, microbiology, and energy management.

With a pool of more than 40 trademark attorneys, the firm has recurrently partnered with leading global brand owners to advise them on their entire IP lifecycle management – from ideation to enforcement. The team also includes IP litigators and investigators to ensure prompt measures for online/offline searches, trademark oppositions, cancellation, infringement and passing off, and other litigation actions.

The engineering patent practice group, which comprises over 80 patent attorneys, have domain expertise in Computer Sciences and Software, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data Analysis, and Internet of Things (IoT) in addition to the traditional engineering domains such as mechanical, mechatronics, electrical and electronics, civil and material sciences.

The firm distinguishes itself through a combination of specialised expertise, a client-focused approach, and a track record of successful outcomes. We pride ourselves on delivering tailored solutions, staying abreast of the latest legal developments, and providing personalised attention to each client's unique needs. Our commitment to excellence in intellectual property law sets us apart, ensuring that our clients receive top-notch representation and strategic guidance.

Since its inception, the firm has brought together talented individuals from all over India, creating a rich tapestry of skills, experiences, and strengths. The team is an amalgam of varying ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, abilities, beliefs, and more. We believe in passing the baton and nurturing young minds to become the future leaders who represent our multifaceted workforce.