Mind Legal, a full service law firm is a perfect amalgamation of years of practical experience and deep rooted theoretical and conceptual understanding. Based out of Delhi, the Firm has been founded by a group of highly trained, disciplined and enthusiastic young visionaries who combine their immense enthusiasm and global exposure to deliver expedient solutions to every single client.
With invaluable insights into a very broad spectrum of industries, the firm is driven by the single-minded proposition of providing quality legal services and solutions to clients seeking legal assistance in areas like general corporate, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, taxations, banking, technology law, litigation and dispute resolution, regulatory and policy framework.
The Firm’s unwavering professionalism partnered with the ability to adapt and adopt is what allows it to consistently deliver excellence without failing. Having handled diverse litigations successfully in various courts, tribunals and forums, Mind Legal has in a short span of time become synonymous with trust and has established itself as a firm that delivers legally enforceable and commercially viable solutions.
From a variety of regulatory issues including registration and de-registration of aircrafts with the DGCA to the sale, purchase leasing transactions competition law and cargo handling claims, Mind Legal’s dynamic team strives to deliver the best possible legal solutions every single time.
Having advised myriad of domestic and multinational banks in areas like structured financing, commercial, domestic, external borrowing derivatives and general customer related issues, Mind Legal has become the one stop shop for many banks. From time to time, FIIs and many non-banking financial companies have also sought our advice on primary and secondary investments, SEBI, RBI, FEMA and other regulatory compliances.
Mind Legal’s dedicated and highly experienced Capital Market team is known for providing the best legal advice on various public issue documentation and has also been involved in many Initial and Follow-on Public Offerings as well as QIPs and Preferential Allotment of capital and debt instruments. The Firm’s services extend from due-diligence, drafting of definitive and ancillary documentation to giving advice on regulatory approval.
The partners at Mind Legal in the past have served as legal advisors to many entrepreneurial, medium and blue chip companies, making the Firm the perfect option for obtaining legal advice on company formations, international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, project finance, venture capital and issues relating to banking, equity markets, foreign direct investment and exchange control.
Owing to many years of experience in all stages of the dispute resolution processes including drafting of pleadings, appearing and presenting arguments in various forums, including the various High Courts, Tribunals and the Supreme Court of India, the Firm has become a thoroughly trusted name.
With the E-Commerce Law in a nascent stage in our Country, clients need specialized advice on laws and compliances with respect to E-Commerce. The Firm regularly advises clients on multifarious issues associated with E-Commerce businesses. Big data, cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, smart contracts, block chain are the new and emerging spheres where the legalities are still being formulated by the law.
The law firm assists clients on environmental laws, rules and regulations, tax credits, grants and land use provisions, carbon trading, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project development and Carbon Emission Reductions (CERs), trading transactions etc. The Firm has helped clients with policies, procedures and systems relating to environment law as well as assisted clients in obtaining NOCs from Pollution Control Boards etc.
What sets Mind Legal apart from other full service law firms is its solid foundation across an expansive landscape of legal processes. The Firm has proved its worth in the past by advising its clients on several aspects of transactions including term sheet review, due diligence, investment structuring, drafting and negotiating necessary documentation and shareholder agreements.
Our forte extends to the hospitality industry as well. Many leading hospitality chains of the world have sought our services on management agreements, outsourcing agreements, labor and employment issues, special taxes and strategic investments from time to time.
Mind Legal has represented clients before various authorities including Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO). Our partners have been associated with numerous multinational organizations by assisting them in procuring visas for employees and advising them on immigration laws in India.
Our diverse portfolio also includes providing advisory services at all stages of infrastructure projects in India beginning from the initial structuring and tendering stage, legislative and regulatory issues to financing and final contractual negotiations.
The Firm has a robust IBC practice ranging from advisory to litigating before the NCLTs across India, NCLAT to the Supreme Court of India. With the coming of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, a plethora of litigation has opened up and along with it have come various emerging and dynamic provisions of law. The Firm handholds the clients in understanding and applying the law and regulations in the correct manner.
Mind Legal is highly adept at providing legal advice on claims under a diverse range of policies along with matters relating to marine insurance, aviation, motor accidents and loss of profit. The firm’s invaluable experience in areas related to regulatory issues including insurance ventures in India and in drafting insurance and re-insurance documentation has leveraged by many clients in the past.
Mind Legal’s diverse service pool also offers legal advise on subjects like intellectual property protection, registration of designs and patents, IP and IT licensing, distribution and regulatory issues.
The Firm regularly assists clients in the dynamic and sensitive area of pharmaceutical laws. A plethora of compliances govern the pharmaceutical world ranging laws and compliances relating to drugs and cosmetics, medical devices, price control, R&D, clinical establishments, diagnostic centres, drug trials, hospital administration, and laboratories, blood banks etc.
Mind Legal has advised many private clients on matters including drafting wills, probate and trusts. With an extremely focused approach the Firm has represented many individuals in numerous family and matrimonial matters.
The partners of the Firm come from a variety of backgrounds allowing Mind Legal to provide legal assistance in the area of media, fashion, entertainment and sports law. From drafting and negotiation of agreements, contracts between media houses, artists, fashion designers and sports personalities to legal advisory services on film production and distribution.
As mentioned before, Mind Legal has always strived to provide world-class legal services to each and every client. The same holds true even in matters related to providing advice on regulatory matters to drafting documentation for exploration contracts, technical and commercial bids along with matters related to oilrigs, offshore and inter tidal issues.
Many multinational and several domestic companies have benefited from our services in the field of employment related issues including contracts, employee handbooks and manuals, termination issues and procedures. The firm has adroitly handled compliance and regulatory matters under both central and state legislations, contract labor, pension and other social security issues along with litigations related to employment.
Our partners’ global exposure spans across real estate and property related matters as well. Mind Legal has leveraged the same to advise clients in matters from land audits, due diligence exercises, Title Search Reports, Legal Search Reports, giving opinions on title and encumbrances as well as drafting conveyances, sale deeds and related documentation and contracts for engineers, building construction, management and development.
The Firm advises clients in the whole gamut of laws on retail, wholesale, distribution, manufacturing B2B, B2C etc. Specialized legal advice on intricacies of single-brand retail, multi-brand retail, wholesale, retail and distribution structures, licensing agreements, franchisee agreements, brand protection agreements, distributor/ agency agreements, joint venture agreements, cooperation agreements etc.
Among many other areas, one of the areas that Mind Legal has been actively involved in, is the area related to marine pollution, insurance and cargo related disputes including non-delivery of cargo and lien on bunkers. Our partners have worked very closely with charters, ship owners and builders to act on their behalf in matters concerning shipbuilding and repairing contracts, ship finance, demurrage liability and limitation of liability.
Mind Legal’s tax department is well known for offering legal advisory services on tax efficient jurisdictions for investment into and out of India, adopting structures for Indian entities held by foreign clients which would serve to increase tax efficiency, transfer pricing issues, structuring of loans and investment instruments to subsidiaries, employee stock option plans as well as personal tax structuring for expatriate executives.