Banking and Finance

The versatility of Our banking and finance practise enables us to assist clients with a wide range of backgrounds and needs. We represent top domestic and international banks, corporations, promoters, and investors in a wide range of transactions, including domestic loans, foreign commercial borrowing, acquisition finance, project finance, structured finance, and re-financing. Our knowledge is also put to use in negotiating or advising on distressed debt situations, as well as assisting various stakeholders in identifying the risks associated with such transactions. We excel at comprehending and navigating Indian banking laws and regulations. This, in conjunction with our banking and finance expertise and sector specialisations, enables us to provide new, creative, and compliant financing solutions. Our expertise dealing with numerous regulators and major stakeholders in the banking sector provides us with a unique perspective on what constitutes practical and commercially viable legal advice.

Corporate and Commercial

We provide advice to renowned corporations and financial institutions on a wide range of challenging business and commercial challenges. Working with our clients on such challenges improves our understanding of their businesses, which improves our services on transactional or litigation matters.Our experience includes advising on all types of commercial contracts, including joint ventures and strategic alliances, complicated contractual partnerships, licencing agreements, product development, manufacturing, and supplier alliances. We assist prominent industry leaders on contractual and non-contractual business challenges such as data privacy and security.
Clients require extensive counsel to establish these complex arrangements, and we rely on our practitioners in the Corporate, Tax, Intellectual Property, Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, and Regulatory areas to assist clients in anticipating challenges and developing effective solutions.

India Entry Strategy

Lis Partners specialises in offering full assistance to companies looking to strengthen, develop, and expand their operations in India. Our firm provides advice services relating to the practises involved in establishing enterprises in India, as well as legal, strategic, and financial aid and guidance. We have an experienced panel of legal professionals and specialists, including corporate lawyers and business and financial experts, who are well-versed in all of the complexities involved in business establishment methods in India. We offer services such as drafting and reviewing of firm incorporation documentation, memorandum and articles of organisation, and other legal documents, assistance with all regulatory approvals and tax clearances, including opening a bank account in India, bookkeeping, company secretarial records, payroll, legal advice, and regulatory compliances, as well as assistance in convening the first board meeting and selecting statutory auditors. Our clients benefit, in particular, from the breadth of our transactional, advisory, and regulatory experience, which allows us to provide clients with perspective on the most complex issues, as well as our understanding of our clients' commercial goals, which allows us to provide a highquality and responsive service to help our clients achieve their goals.

Post India Entry Strategy

Cross-border business formation is a significant step, and entering a new business territory necessitates knowledge of its legislative framework and cultural milieu. We have a strong associate network in several countries that allows us to provide the essential legal services and legal advice, as well as execution assistance for cross-border business setup, ensuring that our clients' entry is simple and hasslefree. Lis Partners, which specialises in establishing a business in India and providing foreign investors with India entrance services, regularly advises international investors on Foreign Direct Investment structuring and compliance. We have created a package of legal services to assist investors in covering the entire road of establishing a business in India and framing / implementing entry strategies for international investors in a straightforward manner.

Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) are powerful sources for businesses looking to start out or acquire momentum through finance in a nation with a dearth of readily available cash. The government continuously modifies its policies in light of the situation to boost investment in certain industries that require encouragement. Understanding and abiding by the rules governing access to these funds, the limitations, approvals, and violations under the FDI policy, as well as RBI and FEMA criteria, are essential. To a wide range of foreign and local clients, Lis Partners has been offering specialised and comprehensive advisory services on RBI/FEMA.

Equity and Debt

Domestic DCM transactions involving a wide range of issuers and underwriters are included in Lis Partners' DCM practise. We frequently offer advice on infrastructure bonds, green bonds, and private placements of non-convertible debentures (whether secured, unsecured, listed, or unlisted), as well as market linked debentures and other types of commercial papers. We have helped clients obtain capital, acquisition financing, mezzanine funding, distressed funding, expansion funding, and refinancing. Our DCM practise is sophisticated and narrowly focused, and our attorneys have backgrounds in both capital markets and debt covenant agreements. This is a highly specialised practise that spans four different geographic areas. We are equipped to handle the needs of every DCM transaction, regardless of its nature, industry, or size. We intentionally pay attention to the demands and expectations of our wide range of clients in DCM transactions. Being a full-service firm enables us to give end-to-end answers for every legal area of a challenging DCM deal. We can complete agreements in challenging sectors because to our years of experience working with regulators and committed partner involvement, which includes close integration with sector specialists.

Dispute Resolution and ADR

Lis Partners has created a strong Dispute Resolution practise based on its extensive experience, proven knowledge, and various skills in addressing complex and multi-jurisdictional business and commercial disputes through litigation, arbitration, conciliation, and mediation. We are a well-known name in regulatory, commercial, and corporate conflict resolution. We handle a wide range of civil disputes and proceedings, commercial arbitrations, statutory and regulatory proceedings, and work with our clients to develop litigation strategies, compliance programmes, and risk assessments in order to align our advice and solutions with our clients' commercial interests. Our mission is to guarantee that conflicts are handled in an efficient, cost-effective, and timely way in order to fulfil our customers' goals and objectives. We are recognised for our commercial acumen and business expertise, which provides us an advantage in comprehending the complicated commercial components of the dispute and arriving at meaningful solutions for our clients. Our lawyers are educated to operate effectively inside the firm to give excellent legal representation to our clients, as well as to collaborate with senior advocates and other law firms as necessary and in the best interests of our clients. We are focused on delivering outcomes.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Over the course of the past two decades, the India development story has resulted in a tremendous surge in M&As and has transformed the country's M&A landscape, with an increasingly liberalised economy and related factors such as advancement in technology, greater access to capital, and lower barriers to entry. Lis Partner's practise includes asset/share transactions, takeovers of public and private companies, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, leveraged buyouts, and management buyouts. Our clients are strategic as well as financial transaction sponsors. We represent local and international clients in a variety of industries, including public and unlisted Indian enterprises, multinational corporations, and foreign private equity/venture capital funds.

Education

A specialist education practise with strong transactional and consulting credentials is offered by Lis Partners. Our team has provided market-leading advice on transactions in the Indian education industry to ed-tech businesses, strategic investors, and top private equity firms. We provide advice on foreign investor entry and exit, private equity investments in the ed-tech and online sectors, strategic acquisitions, partnerships between international and Indian partners, and joint ventures, as well as business restructurings. In addition to transactional work, our education practise has a diverse clientele of domestic and international businesses, colleg

Real Estate and Infrastructure Law

Lis Partners has built a substantial Real Estate Practise, backed up by a team of incredibly experienced and skilled lawyers with extensive knowledge in the critical Real Estate Sector. The Indian real estate business is continually developing, and a regulatory framework is being implemented to make it more responsible and responsive to the requirements of stakeholders, as well as to contribute to the country's economic progress. As a result, structuring real estate transactions is becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated, and it requires a thorough understanding of relevant regulations, sector-specific government policy frameworks, and in-depth market knowledge to respond to complex situations faced by our clients and provide legally and regulatory compliant, innovative, pragmatic, and timely solutions that are cost effective, practical, and commercially justifiable, as expected. We have an excellent record of assisting clients on the acquisition of significant tracts of property across the country. We are well-known for our ability to draught transactional papers such as sale/purchase agreements, license/leasing agreements, joint development/collaboration agreements, and construction contracts.

Intellectual Property

The dedicated IP team at Lis Partners has grown to be one of the largest practises among full-service law firms in India over the years, representing a wide range of customers from various industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, mechanical engineering, technology, retail, etc. Throughout the life cycle of patents, designs, trademarks, copyrights, plant varieties, domain names, geographical indications, biodiversity issues, trade secrets, and sensitive information, our intellectual property (IP) attorneys provide legal counsel. Our team is made up of legal and technical experts who work together to take advantage of the commercial, strategic, and technical interests of customers to provide customised, practical, and affordable solutions. On local and international filings, prosecution, advisory, transactions, and enforcement activities, we provide a range of customers with support.

Indirect Taxes

We deal with stakeholders in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, defence, IT and ITES, retail and distribution, hotel, banking and financial services, and aerospace, through our International Trade, Indirect Tax and Regulatory Affairs (IDT) practise. Our company's diverse structure enhances the ability of our IDT team to provide creative solutions tailored to the requirements of our clients. Given our extensive experience in market entrance, supply chain management, financial modelling, tax-optimal structure, risk mitigation, bid counselling, negotiations, dispute resolution, etc., we provide integrated services on all types of complex deals. Lawyers, former regulators, and chartered accountants who are renowned for their knowledge and sophisticated solutions make up our team. They can competently and pro-actively provide guidance on a variety of indirect tax-related difficulties. Several of our group members participate in advocacy and working groups of various industry associations to represent the interests of the industry in the processes of policy making in addition to representing and assisting clients.

Environment Law

An intricate web of environmental rules and forums is being left behind by India's changing legal and regulatory landscape. With our clients in India and abroad, we are experts at negotiating a variety of environmental-related concerns. We provide clients with advice on all issues pertaining to environmental law compliance, as well as legal representation before state pollution control boards, the National Green Tribunal, the Supreme Court of India, and other courts and quasi-judicial bodies. Lis Partners has experience with issues connected to resource efficiency, wildlife preservation, biodiversity, forests, climate change, consents and clearances, and pollution management. Cement, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, mining, automobiles, oil and gas, real estate, and waste management (including electronic, plastic, biological, solid, hazardous, and construction waste) are a few of the industries that some of our clients work in. We aid clients in comprehending the environmental regulatory system. We also advise them on matters relating to authorizations needed in accordance with Indian sustainability legislation, such as environmental clearances, permissions to operate, permissions to establish, and permissions to operate.

Mining Disputes

From exploration until closure, the mining industry is governed by a complicated web of laws and regulations. In India, the Firm has one of the top practises for resolving mining disputes. Due to our extensive industry knowledge, we are able to offer our customers the best legal advice on a variety of matters pertaining to their mining activities. Our team has a wealth of experience advocating for clients in front of the Mines Tribunal, the Supreme Court, and numerous High Courts, including the High Courts of Delhi, Odisha, and Jharkhand, in cases involving crucial inquiries about the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960, and other applicable laws, rules, and regulations, including legislation enacted to protect the environment.

Insurance Law

Our insurance practise offers insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, investment banks, investors, and policyholders a broad range of legal services. We have extensive experience and awareness of the legal, regulatory, and commercial difficulties confronting the Indian insurance business, and we often act at the forefront of Indian insurance activity. Our team regularly advises on complex M&A and private equity transactions in the insurance sector as part of growth, market entry, or consolidation strategies (or disposals as investors or partners exit their investments), regulatory matters, insurance registrations, distribution channels and networks, fund raising (public offerings and debt issuances), restructuring, litigation, and digital platforms. We are a trusted advisor to a number of prominent multinational insurers and reinsurers, private equity and sovereign funds, and large Indian corporate groupings operating in this industry. We have a proven track record of handling some of the most complex and diverse insurance projects. Our expertise includes market entry and exit strategies, as well as insurance registration; high-value M&A transactions, including cross-border transactions; private equity transactions (acquisition of controlling stakes as well as minority investments and subsequent disposals/exits); group reorganisations and restructurings; distribution arrangements, including bank-assurance arrangements and digital platforms; outsourcing arrangements; and regulatory compliance

Advisory Services

A company's full corporate life cycle is handled by the firm's General Corporate practise, which starts with guidance on entrance strategy, incorporation and structuring, contracts, and regulatory compliances and ends with corporate governance and measures for accountability and transparency. The team's main objective is to not only make sure that the businesses are compliant with the law but also to identify potential future risk areas and offer timely guidance. Lawyers, company secretaries, and compliance experts are part of our multidisciplinary teams that make sure businesses are compliant from a legal and commercial standpoint. Numerous challenging problems were successfully resolved by the teams. We also carry out legal audits and due diligence relating to employment law, support clients in conducting POSH law and POSH investigation trainings, and more.

Secretarial Services

Lis Partners is a full-service law firm with company secretarial services as one of its major divisions. It offers a wide range of services, including "Business Set-Up services" and "Regular Compliance services," which involve establishing corporate business entities. Lis Partners makes sure to maintain all legal and regulatory compliances in a timely manner and to protect its clients from any potential liabilities.

Pro Bono

Lis Partners is grateful for the trust, admiration, and acceptance that its clients have shown the company. To pay it forward, the company actively participates in society and offers pro bono legal services by counselling, supporting, and advocating on behalf of numerous charitable and not-for-profit groups. The Firm provides such groups with legal advice at every stage involving potential legal repercussions and direction, from their establishment to the use of their funds, from business contracts to the preservation of their intellectual property rights

Bikash Mohanty (Managing Partner)

Mr. Mohanty brings over 25 years of extensive litigation experience across various courts and tribunals in India, including regular appearances before the Supreme Court of India. His practice is marked by deep expertise in handling complex and high- stakes disputes across jurisdictions.

He is a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association and a permanent member of the India International Centre, reflecting his standing within the legal fraternity.

Mr. Mohanty has had the privilege of working closely with Late Soli J. Sorabjee, Senior Advocate and former Attorney General for India, in many landmark matters, and particularly in relation to the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, a significant legislative development enacted by the Indian Parliament. His involvement in this domain further extended internationally, where in 2013 he was invited by the National Diet of Japan to present his views on the comparative analysis of supplier liability in the context of nuclear damage.

In the early years of his career, Mr. Mohanty gained valuable experience working with leading law firms such as J.B. Dadachanji & Co. (now known as Global Legal Associates), Khaitan & Co., and Kapoor & Associates. He has also served as a litigator for DLF Limited, one of India’s premier real estate developers, handling diverse matters across all forums throughout the country.

He is presently empanelled as a counsel for the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, an undertaking of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, along with NBCC, ITI Limited, Oil India Limited, IIFCL, DFCCIL, NSIL and Steel Authority of India Limited. Additionally, he has been engaged as Special Counsel for the Orissa Water Supply and Sewerage Board, representing the Board in matters before courts in Delhi and Haryana.

Mr. Mohanty’s diverse experience, spanning constitutional, commercial, infrastructure, and regulatory litigation, coupled with his exposure to policy-level issues, positions him uniquely to lead and execute large-scale litigation management and resolution mandates.

Ajay Goyal Senior Partner (Disputes Resolution)

Mr. Goyal has more than 30 years of litigation and corporate advisory experience. He is a graduate of St. Stephens College, University of Delhi and then pursued his LL.B from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi. His practice mainly concentrates on Constitutional Law, Company Law, Insolvency Law and International Commercial Arbitration. He regularly represents clients before the Supreme Court of India, High Court of Delhi and various other courts and forums like APTEL, CCI, COMPAT, NCLT, NGT, NCDRC and Arbitral Tribunals

Amit Bhagat Senior Partner (Taxation Advisory & Litigation)

Mr. Bhagat holds a degree of Bachelor in Arts (Hons) from Hansraj College and LLB from Campus Law Centre, New Delhi. Mr. Bhagat has more than 25 years of experience in the legal field. He has in the past worked with renowned law firms such as J.B. Dadachanji & Co and Global Legal Associates. He has also worked as a Partner in the Indian tax and regulatory practice of PWC. He holds expertise in and has advised various clients on matters relating to Indirect tax, specifically on issues of VAT, Customs, Excise, Service Tax, Foreign Trade Policy, Anti Dumping, and Special Economic Zones etc. He has successfully handled various national and international clients such as Coca Cola, LG, Hitachi, Hyundai, Rotem, CAF Spain, Mitsubishi, Nippon, Ikea, Panasonic, Carrier, Sony, Ricoh, BMW, Volvo, JCB, Yamaha and Caterpillar Group etc.

Anand Misra Partner-in-charge (Odisha)

Mr. Misra holds expertise in Direct & Indirect Tax Consultancy and Litigation. He regularly appears before various High Courts and the Supreme Court of India on matters of Company Law, Infrastructure Development, Environmental Laws, Electricity Law, and Constitutional Law. In the past, he assisted Mr. Soli J. Sorabjee, Senior Advocate & Former Attorney General for India in the areas of Constitutional laws, Corporate Laws and related disputes etc. Few of his distinguished clients are Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Blue Dart, Dhariwal Industries, HSBC, Axis Bank etc.

Shashwat Prateek Panda (Partner)

Mr. Panda is a graduate of O.P. Jindal Global University, where he obtained his B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from the Jindal Global Law School.

He has been appointed by the Ministry of Law and Justice as a Central Govt. Counsel to represent the Union of India before the Supreme Court of India, reflecting his strong standing and credibility in high-stakes litigation.

Mr. Panda’s core areas of practice include civil, commercial, consumer, and family law. He regularly appears before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Delhi High Court, and the Supreme Court of India, as well as before key quasi-judicial bodies such as the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), and the National Green Tribunal (NGT). He is empanelled as counsel for Steel Authority of India Limited and Northern Railways, further demonstrating his experience in handling matters for large public sector undertakings.

Mr. Panda is a Fellow at the World Mediation Organization and has a strong inclination towards Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR). He is an active member of the Young ICCA (YICCA) and the Young MCIA (YMCIA), reflecting his engagement with evolving dispute resolution practices.

He is also actively involved in the legal technology ecosystem, working on the development of applications and platforms for online dispute resolution. In addition to his litigation practice, he regularly advises startups and established businesses on regulatory compliance, legal strategy, and business development, bringing a commercially informed perspective to legal problem-solving.

Mr. Panda’s blend of litigation expertise, ADR focus, and technology-driven approach positions him as a valuable asset in mandates requiring efficient, scalable, and innovative dispute resolution strategies.

Sameer Jain (Of Counsel)

Mr. Jain primarily practises in Domestic and International Commercial Arbitration along with corporate commercial litigation. He has an Honors degree in law in International Trade and WTO from NLU, Jodhpur. He has also completed a course on Contract Negotiation from Goldman Sachs University. He has worked with some of the best organisations in the country such as Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young and Luthra & Luthra Law Offices. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and has served as lead counsel in several intricate and complex matters, specifically in the areas of Arbitration, Corporate/Commercial Disputes, Infrastructure, Taxation, Foreign Contribution Regulation, Bank Guarantee, etc. He has been recognized as the Litigation Star in Dispute Resolution by Benchmark Litigation, Leading Individual in Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Top Individual Lawyer in Arbitration and Insolvency practice by Forbes.

Debasis Nayak (Of Counsel)

Mr. Debasis Nayak has more than twenty years of experience in conducting cases relating to debt recovery, cyber and financial crimes, intellectual property, contracts and service law. He graduated in law from the Pune University in 2001. He is an empanelled counsel for the Food Corporation of India and additional Standing Counsel for Government of Orissa in Orissa High Court. He has been involved in information technology matters and compensation cases involving banks in phishing related matters and illegal wire transfers. He has conducted domain dispute cases adjudicated by WIPO arbitration panels. He has conducted public interest litigation in the Bombay High Court to remove defective standards in the Information Technology Act. He has played an active part in preparing draft rules under the Information Technology Act, 2000 for DIT, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. He has advised amongst others, the Food Corporation of India, the Life Insurance Corporation of India, DLF, the Jagran Group’s J9 Ventures, SVC Bank, NSDL, CCAvenue, Amarchand Mangaldas Shroff & Company, Kochar & Co., Bajaj Auto, etc, to name a few. He is visiting faculty of cyber law and cyber crime investigation at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad for officers of the Indian Police Service. He advises law enforcement agencies of several states in India on investigation and prosecution of cyber crimes. He has conducted workshops on cyber law for judicial officers in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. He is a visiting faculty at the Maharashtra Judicial Academy, the Judicial Academies at Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Assam and the National Judicial Academy at Bhopal where he addresses in-service judicial officers on cyber law, digital evidence and cyber crime investigation.

Ashim Aggarwal (Of Counsel)

Mr. Aggarwal completed his graduation in Economics from the prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi before completing his law. He has more than 23 years of experience as a practising lawyer and regularly appears before the High Court at Chandigarh as also other Courts and Tribunals located at Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh etc. He has advised several clients including Hindustan Unilever, Emaar MGF Land Ltd., Motorola, ITC, Omaxe, Suncity, Coca-Cola, Nayara Energy, Sumitomo Chemicals, Diageo, ABP News, Marico, Asian Paints, Vodafone, Lenovo, Fortis,Dell International Services, Mumbai & Kandla Port Trust etc. We also work closely and do filing for leading firms like Trilegal, PDS Legal, Deloitte, E&Y etc.

Tuhin Sinha (Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court)

Mr. Tuhin is an advocate-on-record in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and is involved in the matters of the firm before the Supreme Court. He is a graduate of the Symbiosis Law School, completing his BSL LLB and LLM in Cyber Law and arbitration. He frequently advises IT companies on subjects of intellectual property, cyber law and data privacy issues.

Pallavi Sharma (Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India)

Ms. Pallavi Sharma has worked with the top firms in the legal fraternity, such as Karanjawala & Co, Parekh & Co. and Luthra and Luthra Law Offices. She then went on to become an independent Advocate-On-Record at the Supreme Court of India with extensive experience in all forms of litigation and dispute resolution matters including expertise in Alternative Dispute Resolution. She has frequently advised and been a part of high profile cases in the Supreme Court and various High Courts and also handled numerous notable clients during the course of her law practice.

Vikramaditya Mohanty (Advocate)

Vikram is a graduate of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and holds a B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from the Jindal Global Law School. 

Apratim Animesh Thakur (Of Counsel)

Mr. Thakur holds a BA., LL.B. Degree from Amity Law School, Delhi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. He has worked several renowned lawyers & law firms in the country including Mr. Soli. J. Sorabjee, Mr. U.K. Chaudhary and Mr. H.L. Tikoo. Mr. Thakur also holds a diploma degree from ICCE (United Nations Organization) in Green Revolution and Climate Change. He has authored multiple research papers and articles on issues of legal and public importance which have been published in eminent national and international journals. Mr. Thakur is a regular and renowned face at youth policy making seminars and has chaired and conducted multiple dialogues on agendas including but not limited to Capital Punishment, Media Laws, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Child Labour, Protection of Whistle Blowers, Counter Terrorism and Appointment of Judges to Higher Judiciary. He is presently working on bringing reforms in the educational sector and sexual offences laws in India.

Suryansh Sritej Mohanty (Advocate)

Suryansh is an Advocate with a keen interest in Corporate & Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Banking & Finance, and Infrastructure & Project Finance. He combines a strong academic foundation with practical experience across both transactional and contentious legal matters.

Suryansh graduated in B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law University, Odisha, where he developed a broad-based understanding of commercial and public law while actively engaging in legal research, mooting, institutional responsibilities, and professional internships.

His practice and research interests particularly extend to commercial litigation and arbitration, where he has worked on matters involving contractual disputes, challenges to arbitral awards, enforcement and stay proceedings, jurisdictional objections, and proceedings before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and the Hon'ble High Courts.