Areas of Practice

Transactional and legal advising services pertaining to day-to-day business, regulatory matters, corporate and governance affairs are at the core of Poulomi's corporate practice. We guide clients through all phases of challenging and significant assignments from Joint Venture, IP,Labour & HR, purchase and supply, distribution, franchise, construction, marketing, E-commerce, IT, data privacy, warehousing, logistics procurement. We support our clients in addressing a range of corporate governance and compliance concerns, such as FCPA, anti-bribery, and anti-corruption inquiries.

Litigation & ADR

The Firm is pursuing creative ways to resolve its clients' disputes through various modes, including Arbitration, Mediation, Conciliation, Administrative, Banking & Finance, Civil, Competition, Constitutional, Corporate & Commercial, Consumer, Environment, Employment & HR, Food Safety, Legal Metrology, Healthcare, Insolvency.

Commercial Transactions

The firm manages all types of commercial contracts, including those involving investments, shareholders, joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances, agency, purchase and supply, distribution, and franchise agreements,construction contracts including FIDIC, marketing, services, E-commerce and internet; data privacy; warehousing, logistics & 3pl; sponsorship & promotion; consultancy; procurement etc. are covered by the firm's counsel.
Commercial contracts for services, licensing, development, distribution, marketing, manufacturing, outsourcing, maintenance, and support, as well as online terms and conditions, are among the other areas of expertise for the firm.

Real Estate Laws & Legal Due Diligence

In the areas of acquisitions and disposals, construction, finance, development, and leasing, the firm offers owners, investors, and developers a wide range of services related to real estate. Clients of the firm gain from the firm's extensive experience managing intricate, protracted projects that entail document preparation, negotiation facilitation, and overcoming legal and regulatory difficulties. In addition to create compelling lease and licensing agreements and other relevant paperwork. The Firms handleslegal due diligence of properties on PAN India basis and Middle East.
The Firm has extensive experience representing various real estate occupants, including tenants. The Firm makes sure that it truly comprehends the purposes behind the client's desire for the pertinent property as well as the intended uses for it.
Lease assignments and surrenders, licenses to assign and sublease, and commercial leases in the retail, industrial, and office sectors are the services, the Firm provides to landlords and tenants, both corporate and private in the office and industrial sectors.

Corporate& Allied Laws

The Firm provides legal advice to clients on a range of legal matters arising from various laws, including those pertaining to contract law and laws specific to certain industries, such as retail trading, packaging, FSSAI, legal metrology, consumer laws, and other such laws that are pertinent to the conduct of business of its clients.
The Firm helps its clients set up companies, limited liability partnerships, partnerships, trusts, alternative investment vehicles, liaison offices, branch offices, project offices, and other business entities that allow business to be conducted in India or that allow a financial or strategic investor to establish a presence in India.

Intellectual Property Laws Enforcement

To help its clients safeguard and capitalize on their intellectual property, the Firm provides its legal advice both offensive and defensive plans that include carrying out in-depth searches, figuring and coming up with plans to safeguard clients' primary and secondary technologies.
The Firm is experienced in drafting, filing, and prosecuting registration applications for trademarks and copy rights.
The Firm provides both Indian and international clients with legal opinions on complex intellectual property issues arising from emerging technologies. Furthermore, the Firm drafts and reviews a diverse range of intellectual property and technology agreements to meet the specific needs of wide-ranging industries in India and abroad. The Firm also undertakes the following:

• drafting, reviewing and negotiation of agreements in the retail sector,
• advising on IP issues under cross-border employment contracts,
• advising clients on their disputes in relation to copyrights.

Construction

The Firm provides a wide range of services including the drafting and negotiation of complicated building contracts, FIDIC Contracts, sub-contracting agreements, appointment of professional consultants etc.
The Firm handles the disputes (arbitration and litigation), sending and responding to notices to the Employer, the Engineer, the Contractor and Sub-contractors and devising strategies for dispute resolution.

Employment & Labour Laws

The Firm advise its clients on the applicability of several Central and State HR laws in India, such as the Trade Unions Act, the Employees' Provident Fund Act, the Industrial Disputes Act, the Payment of Bonus Act, the Payment of Gratuity Act, the Contract Labour Regulations, the state-specific Shops & Establishments enactments, etc.
The Firm offers its advice on the complex regulatory and legal aspects of employment and labour law enabling them full compliance with all the applicable laws and regulations includingemployment contracts, company policies such as whistleblower policies, ethics; disciplinary action, retrenchment/termination of services, compliance check, prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace.
The Firm assists clients in drafting and reviewing employment documentation including offer letters and employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-compete and non-solicit agreements, consultancy agreements, secondment and deputation agreements, severance and release agreements, etc.
Our clients receive guidance from us regarding the applicability of HR laws, the duties and responsibilities that follow, the repercussions of violating the law, matters pertaining to provident fund contributions, gratuity and bonus payments, superannuation and retirement benefits, termination of employment, work hours, leave and holiday entitlement, employee health and safety regulations, discrimination and harassment issues, etc.
We offer our clients advice on downsizing and employment termination strategies. In addition to offering advice on the regulations that companies must follow, this also includes labour and employment laws that may be relevant. We advise clients con the confidentiality, non-solicitation after employment, and data protection.
We provide our clients with litigation strategy advice, draft and serve legal notices, answer to legal notices, draft claim documents, represent them in labour courts and high courts, and work with local attorneys to pursue litigation in the relevant Indian courts and Middle East.

Ecommerce & IT Laws

E-commerce: Advise the clients to mitigate legal / regulatory risks for operating and undertaking business in this sector.
Internet of Things: Providing legal advice on complex legal issues arising from convergence of the Internet of Things.
Data protection: Advising the clients on data protection laws and its implications on their business and the information processed / stored / collected; and handling sensitive personal information by cloud service providers.
Documentation: Drafting and negotiating term sheets, master service agreements, service level agreements, build operate- transfer agreements, software license and distribution agreements, end-user license agreements, reseller agreements, software development agreements, software assignment agreements, tele-marketing agreements. Further, assisting in drafting privacy policies, disclaimers and website terms so as to ensure compliances under Indian laws and laws of Middle East.

Banking,Finance & Insolvency

The Firm assists clients in drafting and reviewing banking and finance documentation including term sheets, long and short-term facility agreements, bank guarantees etc.
The Firm advises its clients with respect to financial creditors, corporate debtors, operational creditors and insolvency professionals under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC).
We also represent financial creditors, corporate debtors, and operational creditors in court and before the National Company Law Tribunal regarding a range of IBC-related issues.