DSK Legal

The firm: DSK Legal was set up in 2001 and has since established an excellent reputation for its integrity and value based on proactive, pragmatic and innovative legal advice and its ability to help clients effectively traverse the complicated legal and regulatory regime in India.

Main areas of practice
Litigation and arbitration: 21 partners, and around 86 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

• Represented CREDAI – MCHI being an association of over 1,400 leading real estate developers in Mumbai Metropolitan Region division, before the Hon’ble Supreme Court to seek reliefs in the extra ordinary circumstances resulting from the restriction on their right to carry on business imposed due to Covid-19 with no attendant effective reliefs/relaxation granted by the concerned authorities.

Key clients: Mr. Salman Khan (Indian film actor) and Salman Khan Ventures; Larsen & Toubro; GMR Infrastructure Ltd.; Power Grid Corporation of India; Kukeja Group; Kiri Industries.

Contacts: Anand Desai ([email protected]); Jatin Pore ([email protected]); Kirat Singh Nagra ([email protected]); Vikrant Singh Negi ([email protected]); Kartik Yadav ([email protected]); Samir Malik ([email protected]); Dinesh Pardasani ([email protected]); Akhil Anand ([email protected])

Banking and finance: 6 partners, around 25 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, and Bengaluru.

• Advised SC Lowy (Hong Kong based fund) for their investment in the securitised loans of DHFL. DHFL transferred its existing loans of Rs. 2000 Crore (Sahana Loans) extended to Sahana Realty Group’s entities, to a special purpose trust (SPV) under a securitisation trust structure.

Key clients: Deutsche Bank; State Bank of India; ICICI Bank Group; NIIF Infrastructure Finance Limited.

Contacts: Ajay Shaw ([email protected]); Anjan Dasgupta ([email protected]); Srinivas B.R. ([email protected])

Energy, infrastructure and projects: 10 partners, around 40 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, and Bengaluru.

• Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo S.A. (“Cofides”) – advising in relation to the transmission project being developed in Uttar Pradesd by its investee company, South East Uttar Pradesh Transmission Company Limited (“SEUPPTCL”) on build, operate, maintain and transfer basis.
• Zurich Airport International AG – advised with respect to its bid to develop the greenfield Noida International Airport at Jewar on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis.

Key clients: EverSource Capital; First Solar; GE India; ReNew Power; GAIL India Limited; NITI Ayog, India; Alstom Transport India Limited; PSA, Singapore; Zurich Airport International AG.

Contacts: Anjan Dasgupta ([email protected]); Dinesh Pardasani ([email protected]); Ajay Shaw ([email protected]); Samir Malik ([email protected]); Srinivas B.R. ([email protected])

Corporate, commercial and M&A: 17 partners, 40 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru.

• Advising and assisting ReNew Power in relation to the divestment of 49% equity stake in ReNew Solar Energy (Jharkhand Three) Private Limited.
• Advised and assisted ICICI Venture in relation to a proposed multi-layered transaction, being carried pursuant to the Scheme on the basis which Qube Cinema will first demerge its business of providing technology solutions and services in the film, video and audio domains, including digital cinema advertising, into Qube Digital Cinema Pvt. Ltd.

Key clients: Flipkart Internet Private Limited; ReNew Power Private Limited; Hero Electric Vehicles Private Limited; Korea Investment Partners; SPX Flow Inc (USA); Gaja Capital; Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate Fund.

Contacts: Anand Desai ( [email protected]); Aparajit Bhattacharya ([email protected]); Ajay Shaw ([email protected]); Hemang Parekh ([email protected]); Rishi Anand ([email protected]); Harvinder Singh ([email protected]); Sharath Chandrasekhar ([email protected]); Aninda Pal ([email protected]); Kunal Mehra ([email protected]); Gaurav Mistry ([email protected]); Nakul Batra ([email protected]); Siddharth Suresh ([email protected]); Niraj Kumar ([email protected]); Srinivas B.R. ([email protected])

Real estate: 9 partners, 30 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru

• Advised SPREF II Pte. Ltd. (part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group) with respect to the acquisition of TSI Business Parks (Hyderabad) Private Limited by way of purchase of all equity shares and compulsory convertible debentures held by Reco Rock Private Limited (a GIC entity) and TS Hyderabad 12A (a Tishman Speyer entity).

Key clients: HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund-1; SPREF II PTE. LTD.; Prestige Estates Projects Limited; Godrej Properties Limited.

Contacts: Sajit Suvarna ([email protected]); Srinivas B.R. ([email protected]); Niraj Kumar ([email protected]); Sagar Kadam ([email protected]); Saloni Mody ([email protected]); Brijita Prakash ([email protected]); Bhushan Panse ([email protected]); Mitali Naik ([email protected])

Restructuring and insolvency: 8 partners, 20 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru.

• Advising State Bank of India in the proceedings relating to commencement of Insolvency Resolution Process against Mr. Anil Dhirajlal Ambani [Chairman – Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)] in his capacity of personal guarantor to the term loan facilities extended by SBI to Reliance Communications Limited and Reliance Infratel Limited.

Key clients: State Bank of India (SBI); Bank of India (BOI); IDBI Bank; KPMG; IL&FS Services Ltd.; ICICI Prudential; HDFC.

Contacts: Anand Desai ([email protected]); Niraj Kumar ([email protected]); Ajay Shaw ([email protected]).

Technology, media and telecoms: 5 partners, 12 fee-earners based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bengaluru.

• Advising, assisting and representing various celebrities including Mr. Salman Khan and Mr. Aamir Khan in various civil and criminal proceedings from time to time.

Key clients: Mr. Aamir Khan; Mr. Amitabh Bachchan; Mr. Salman Khan; OnePlus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., China; JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Contacts: Anand Desai ([email protected]); Chandrima Mitra ([email protected]); Rishi Anand ([email protected]); Nakul Batra ([email protected]); Siddharth Suresh ([email protected])

Managing partner: Anand Desai ([email protected])
Number of partners: 49
Number of associate partners: 10
Number of lawyers: 241 (excluding partners and associate partners)
Languages: English, Hindi, French, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati