AQUILAW is a leading full service law firm working at the intersection of corporates, governments, technology and business, and having offices in Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai. Its office in Mumbai comprises a robust team of three partners and four lawyers being a blend of junior and senior associates.
AQUILAW combines years of specialised experience with sound legal advice, and offers customised solutions to suit business challenges. We believe that understanding the business environment and overall objective of the client is pivotal towards providing effective legal services. We care about the quality of our services, the strategic interests of our clients, the eventual success of transactional objectives and above all, the lasting relationships that are forged through such successes.
AQUILAW specialises in industry sectors, as well as in corresponding practice areas for optimal utilisation of resources to design bespoke resolution packages driven towards long term goals of its clients. Our main practice areas include real estate, infrastructure, fund raising, corporate and commercial, mergers and acquisition, capital markets, banking and finance, project finance, securitization, private equity investment, data privacy, policy, arbitration, commercial and general litigation, insolvency, restructuring and bankruptcy, securities law, intellectual property rights, labour, industrial and employment laws, competition law and transactional and allied services.
AQUILAW’s mission and vision:
- To provide our clients with a focused approach to effectively resolve their issues in a timely manner to ensure more value for the clients as well as the business
- To keep ourselves acquainted with legal, commercial and technological developments for delivering efficient solutions
- To stay ahead with an innovative outlook to problem-solving for providing personalized and valuable service to our clients
- To strive to contribute and make ourselves accessible to the society, beyond our business
- To remain committed to our ideology of providing quality, world-class legal and client services
- To hire and retain exceptionally talented lawyers who possess outstanding academic and personal achievements
- To continually imbibe within ourselves the principles of strongest integrity, discipline, professionalism and respect for our work and our clients
Lawyers : 45
Consultants : 6
English
Hindi and other Indian languages
27th June 2024
Tidings Media & Communications Private Limited acquired the leading Bengali newspaper ‘Ei Samay’ from the Times of India Group.
27th June 2024
The 53rd GST Council (GSTC) meeting was held in New Delhi on 22nd June 2024.
25th April 2024
A. Introduction
An interim injunction or relief is often referred to as the “strong arm of the courts of equity” as its origin can be traced to the equity Jurisprudence of England from which we have inherited the present system for the administration of law.
8th March 2024
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the space sector has so far been permitted only in respect of establishment and operation of satellites under the Government Approval route.
6th February 2024
A. Setting the context
The year 2024, being the year for the Lok Sabha Elections, the Hon’ble Union Finance Minister, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget of the Government of India for FY 2024-25.
11th August 2023
A. Introduction
We couldn’t agree more with Franklin D. Roosevelt when he said, “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.
4th August 2023
Introduction
Default bail, also known as statutory bail, is a species of bail which accrues as a right to an accused detained in custody,
4th August 2023
Background
A five-judge bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in M/s. N.N. Global Mercantile Private Limited v. Indo Unique Flame Ltd. & Ors.,
12th July 2023
The 50th meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council was held on 11th July 2023 in New Delhi. The GST Council inter-alia made certain recommendations relating to GST tax rates, measures for facilitation of trade and measures for streamlining compliance in GST. The key changes of the 50th GST Council Meeting are as under:
5th July 2023
Exports play a pivotal role in a country's economic growth and development, serving as a crucial driver of foreign exchange earnings and employment generation.
14th June 2023
A. Introduction
Default bail, also known as statutory bail, is a species of bail which accrues as a right to an accused detained in custody, when the police fail to or are unable to complete the investigation and file the chargesheet within the time frame stipulated under the law.
2nd May 2023
A. Background
A five-judge bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in M/s. N.N. Global Mercantile Private Limited v. Indo Unique Flame Ltd. & Ors., Civil Appeal No(s) 3802-3803 of 2020 recently settled a long-drawn debate regarding acting on unstamped arbitration agreements or agreements containing arbitration clause under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“Act”).
17th February 2023
The Union Budget 2023-2024 comes when global uncertainties are rife. Barely had the pandemic receded, the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022. Prices of food, fuel and fertiliser rose sharply. As inflation rates accelerated, central banks of advanced countries scrambled to respond with monetary policy tightening.
11th January 2023
“The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality. This is true for all persons, whatever their sexual orientation.”
- Justice Sharon L. Kennedy
(Chief Justice of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of Ohio)
9th December 2022
The amount they can charge is capped in many cities; you can go legal to avoid payment or even recover your money paid under pressure.
29th November 2022
A Share Purchase agreement is an agreement entered into between parties for sale of shares of a company. The same contains clauses governing the purchase and sale of shares by the purchaser from the seller. The same contains several conditions precedents, i.e. pre-requisites which have to be fulfilled before the shares are transferred. Accordingly, it contains clauses which allows parties to terminate the same either at the happening of a certain event (breach of the contract by either of the two parties, non-fulfillment of a condition precedent etc.) or without any breach of the contract.
15th August 2022
A. Setting the context
The preamble of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the “Code”) makes the objective of the Code clear and unambiguous, by seeking to achieve reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals for, maximization of value of assets, promoting entrepreneurship; greater availability of credit and; balancing the interests of all the stakeholders, albeit in a time bound manner. Each provision of the Code was drafted keeping these principles in mind, and the introduction of this legislation was done with the aim of replacing the existing framework for insolvency which was visibly inadequate, ineffective and wrought with delays.
6th July 2022
A. Background
In making sustainable investment decisions, a rational imperative is to comprehend the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investment mechanisms and decision-making. The elements of ESG, which include, inter alia, the response of corporations to factors like climate change, corporate social responsibility initiatives, employee rights (including LGBTQIA+ rights), health and safety protocols, and fostering a corporate culture for building trust and innovation, encompass a plethora of issues which, though not forming part of traditional financial analyses, still hold economic relevance. ESG, with its quantifiable metrics, is an impact driven process aiding investors in taking informed decisions, cognizant of the impact their investments have in the larger environmental and socio-cultural context.
14th June 2022
Raveesha Gupta, Senior Associate, AQUILAW
Ronodeep Dutta, Lead Consultant, AQUILAW
29th April 2022
Swarajit Dey, Principal Associate, AQUILAW
Ronodeep Dutta, Lead Consultant, Indirect Tax, AQUILAW
Deeksha Agrawal, Associate, AQUILAW
31st January 2022
The locus
No one sums it up better than Prof. William W. Park in his well-known treatise, Non-Signatories and International Contracts: An Arbitrator's Dilemma1 , “the term ‘non-signatory’ remains useful for what might be called ‘less-than-obvious’ parties to an arbitration clause: individuals and entities that never put pen to paper, but still should be part of the arbitration under the circumstances of the relevant business relationship…the expression remains potentially misleading, suggesting that a lack of signature in itself reduces the validity of an arbitration agreement. Most significantly, the fact that a ‘non-signatory’ might be bound to arbitrate does not dispense with the need for an arbitration agreement. Rather, it means only that the agreement takes its binding force through some circumstance other than the formality of signature”.
18th January 2022
Sucharita Basu, Managing Partner, AQUILAW
Ronodeep Dutta, Lead Consultant Indirect Tax, AQUILAW
18th January 2022
Rajarshi Dasgupta, Head of Indirect Taxes, AQUILAW
Vedika Agarwal, Consultant Indirect Tax, AQUILAW
18th January 2022
Ronodeep Dutta, Lead Consultant, Indirect Tax, AQUILAW
Fatima Anwar, Associate, AQUILAW
18th January 2022
Vikas Mehta, Partner, AQUILAW
Kritika Sethi, Senior Associate, AQUILAW
9th November 2020
Sucharita Basu, Partner, AQUILAW
Ankit Chhaparia, Associate, AQUILAW
Data protection and privacy issues have a major impact on all business and industry sectors, across the globe. Privacy laws are continuously evolving, vary by jurisdiction, and are interpreted unpredictably. Even a well-meaning company can make a false step as it captures, accesses, uses, transfers, and/or discloses personal information. In a follow-up to the General Data Protection Regulation, 2018 (“
GDPR”), which was made effective on 25 May 2018, the national Data Protection Authorities (“
DPAs”) in the European Union, have levied significant fines
inter alia on body corporates for breach of their obligations under the GDPR. Few illustrations of the fine(s) levied by the DPAs in the month of October are provided herein below:
22nd October 2020
Rajarshi Dasgupta, Executive Director & Head of Taxes, AQUILAW
Swarnali Chanda, Senior Associate, AQUILAW
10th January 2020
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9th January 2020
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9th January 2020
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7th January 2020
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7th January 2020
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7th January 2020
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7th January 2020
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23rd December 2019
An analysis of Rule 36(4) – ITC availment under the new mechanism
23rd December 2019
Schemes of Compromise, Arrangement and Amalgamation: Recent Updates
13th December 2019
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