Law Point

The firm: Law Point is a boutique real estate law firm offering comprehensive legal and financial services covering all facets of real estate ranging from commercial, residential and infrastructural development to joint venture projects and project finance. The guiding philosophy for Law Point has been that legal advisory services or taxation/financial advisory services, individually and stand-alone, cannot provide a comprehensive solution to any real estate project. The firm has therefore developed the expertise to provide a suite of all-encompassing real estate solutions that comprise legal, tax and financial services. The combined talent of the legal professionals and associate chartered accountants, which is still unusual in the current legal scenario in India, ensures that every project benefits from the expertise of a well-balanced team bringing in the requisite expertise in all aspects of the client brief.

Law Point’s niche lies in catering to the pre-, as well as post-closure requirements of a client participating in a real estate project with the objective of providing end-to-end solutions, from due diligence, computation of market value, stamp duty and Goods and Service Tax, transaction structuring, documentation  to tax structuring, thus providing a one-stop solution for the entire project. While offering the entire gamut of services pertaining to real estate, the firm’s distinctiveness lies in its expert advice and solutions in the areas of regulatory guidelines, valuation and allied tax laws, which ensures a tax-efficient proposal and solution to the client, and eliminates the need for the client to seek taxation and financial guidance from an outside agency, pre- and post-conclusion of contract. Moreover, the firm’s proficiency in proactively exploring all options pertaining to a project has enabled it to establish a unique ability to diagnose inherent lacunae and detect potential hurdles and road blocks at the inception of any deal. It is therefore able to design a workable solution addressing the income tax, capital gain tax, FEMA laws, Reserve Bank guidelines, Goods and Service Tax, market valuation  and stamp duty implications. This capability also translates into the successful and speedy conclusion of contracts. The firm, being mid-sized,ensures clients have easy access to its partners and senior team members, an advantage that has helped build long- standing associations with most of its clients.

Areas of practice: Services offered by Law Point include legal, technical, secretarial services, financial due diligence, investment and transaction structuring, advisory services of land use and zoning regulations, debt structuring for real estate venture capital funds, financial structuring, stamp duty and registration procedures and all related documentation for concluding simple as well as complex contracts.

The breadth of transactions includes the setting up of IT parks, industrial parks, special economic zones, integrated special townships and malls, as well as MHADA and society redevelopments, slum rehabilitation developments and project finance where the firm extends its legal, financial advisory and documentation capabilities.

The firm’s strength lies in providing solutions to complicated and intricate deals. The firm has also extensively advised FDI-compliant domestic and foreign funds investing in real estate projects. Some major clients comprise prominent real estate developers, institutional lenders, real estate funds, and corporate and domestic investors.