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Dentons Link Legal

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Founded with a focus on dispute resolution, Dentons Link Legal maintains a focused litigation offering that spans the full spectrum of industries and sectors. Firm founder Atul Sharma, in New Delhi, heads the team and has particular focus on disputes in the transport and infrastructure sectors; Ravi Varma is another key name here. The firm’s expanding areas of expertise include a growing insolvency practice where New Delhi’s Abhishek Sharma is the key contact, and aviation is another area of recent focus and growth. In Mumbai, managing partner Nusrat Hassan and Sidhartha Srivastava take point on cross-border contentious transactional matters and corporate disputes.  Former practice co-head Milanka Chaudhury left the team in July 2023.

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Key clients

  • SpiceJet Limited
  • GMR Ambala Chandigarh Expressways Private Limited
  • Vestige Marketing Private Limited
  • JBM Group
  • Sew Infrastructure Ltd.
  • Ayana Ananthapuramu Solar
  • Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL)
  • India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) and IFCI
  • CRCC High-Tech Equipment Corporation Limited
  • China Datang Technologies & Engineering Co. Ltd.
  • Bangalore International Airport Limited
  • GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited
  • Resolution Professional of Educomp Solutions Ltd.
  • JSW Severfield Structures Ltd.
  • Arka Energy B.V. and India Power Corporation Limited
  • Larsen and Toubro Ltd.
  • State Bank of India (SBI)
  • Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Limited & CoC

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Atul Sharma

Dentons Link Legal

Atul is the Managing Partner of Link Legal India Law Services and has 40 years of experience. He was admitted to the Bar in 1978 and he advices clients in the practice areas of corporate litigations, mediation arbitrations including international commercial arbitrations, aviation, infrastructure projects, engineering & construction, business restructuring, employee matters, real estate, hospitality projects, and commercial transactions. He specialises in aviation and infrastructure sectors and represents clients in these sectors on all aspects of their commercial and day to day operations. He advises clients on all aspects of aviation business and setting up of airlines, including acquisition of aircraft, aircraft financing, leasing (wet and dry), leasing of spaces at airports, securing permission from civil aviation authorities for airline operations and related approvals from the government agencies and all engineering and commercial contracts.   He also advises on all contractual and dispute matters in airports sector (domestic and international). He also provides assistance to his clients in setting up and developing infrastructure projects in non-airport sectors as well, like roads, ports, water and waste management, power, urban transportation and oil & gas etc.    He has considerable experience in representing major corporate clients in various Courts, Tribunals, Arbitrations and other judicial and quasi-judicial fora, and providing advice on all aspects of civil and commercial laws including company law, economic laws, labour laws, anti-trust laws, consumer protection laws.    He has spoken on many complex legal issues at national and international fora. He is the Chair of the Aviation Committee of Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA).

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Atul Sharma

Other key lawyers

Nusrat Hassan, Sidhartha Srivastava, Ravi Varma, Abhishek Sharma