Sim And San

Founded in 1996 by Ms Sangeeta Goel, Sim And San, Attorneys at Law, is a full-service firm in India and Dubai. In India, the firm is strategically located in the National Capital Region with two offices – New Delhi and Faridabad. The firm also set up its first international office in Dubai, in 2015.

The firm started off as a boutique firm specializing in intellectual property rights law. While, until the date the firm continues to provide specialized legal services in intellectual property rights law, it has since the year 2006 diversified into a full-service law firm.

The firm, which is now in its 25th year of operations, understands the importance of working with clients’ internal management and business teams, to ensure that business objectives are met in the best possible and legal manner.  Trust, transparency and accountability are integral to all our business dealings. A proactive and practical approach ensures that clients achieve successful results. The firm aims to provide the best legal solutions with a strong emphasis on ethics.

Hallmarks: The firm’s hallmarks include personalized services, efficiency in executing time-sensitive assignments, integrity, focus, and client care. The firm’s strength lies in providing all legal services under one roof. Advocates retained with the firm have experience of working on an array of legal issues across numerous practice areas.

As skilled negotiators and trial advocates, we can resolve complex legal disputes through negotiation and resolution or contested litigation. In addition, advocates retained with the firm have amassed a significant extent of trial experience which guides the strategy, preparation, and presentation of a case from the day it is instituted through final judgment and/or resolution.

Ambition: We aim to work as a team and thus provide clients access to prompt and cost-effective legal advice. As international cross-border transactions increase in number and complexity, Sim And San, with its Indian and international offices, is well-placed to assist clients in finding innovative and commercially sound solutions for their business requirements. We seek to bring our decades of rich experience to help our clients navigate a complex legal system by delivering prompt and bespoke solutions.

One firm. One team: Our tool for success is seamless teamwork and collaboration within and between offices, practice areas, and professionals. State-of-the-art infrastructure and technology make us one virtual office and ready-to-deliver team to provide services across the country.

Strong client relationships are our priority because quality of work comes first with us. Our in-depth understanding of clients’ businesses enables us to deliver the quality of advice and service they expect. We instill in all our people the desire to understand our clients’ businesses and needs to be more effective in solving their legal and business problems. We aim to meet exacting standards of responsiveness and availability in our dealings with clients. We offer to customize our services for them and always put the client first. In this way, we have built trusted relationships with domestic and international clients including governmental institutions.

Talent: Lawyers associated with the firm have international work experience and multi-disciplinary qualifications. They enhance their expertise and experience by being seconded from time to time to work overseas in international law firms and in-house with our corporate clients. We have also recruited specialized technical experts in engineering and various science streams in our firm. We keep abreast with legal developments internationally and strive to keep our clients contemporaneously informed of legal and regulatory developments relevant to them. In addition, our lawyers address seminars, deliver lectures and read papers on diverse subjects, contribute to international legal publications, and form law reform and advisory committees.

Key practice areas: Sim And San is a committed, client interest centric law firm with lawyers, attorneys, counsels, advocates and other allied professionals for each of its work domains. Our service expertise includes;

Intellectual property rights: including patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, geographical indications, plant varieties, and trade secrets and other related matters

Dispute resolution: including mediation, arbitration, and litigation

Corporate transaction and advisory: concerning inbound and outbound investments, strategic alliances and collaborations.

Entertainment and sports laws: with practical advice to clients on all matters relating to creative and performing arts.

Trade secrets and know how: working closely with clients to protect their private data, through both preventative measures and enforcement action.

Commercial advisory: guiding our clients through the entire lifecycle of their business, providing practical legal solutions to practical business challenges.

Private equity and venture capital: providing legal services to private equity funds across the full range of their operations and activities besides International and domestic venture capital entities.

Projects: with a leading national practice in various Infrastructure sectors, such as energy and natural resources (power, oil and gas and minerals) and transport (roads and highways, ports, railways/rapid transit systems).

Regulatory and compliance: with in-depth knowledge of the relevant industry domains and strength in grappling with complex legal issues involving the interaction of law with public policy, economics, technology, finance and project management.

Banking and finance A widely recognized banking and finance practice in the country.

Competition law: Our clients benefit from the experience of acknowledged leaders in the field of competition law across India.

Real estate: providing specialist advice and support across a wide range of real estate transactions.

Personal data privacy and data security: providing advice on data management and data privacy laws to all its clients.

Investigation: actively assists its clients in conducting investigations and enforcing actions, criminal as well as civil, based on the results of the investigations.