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  • Chadha & Co. is a leading Indian law firm specializing in advising foreign companies from over 35 countries doing business in India.
  • Chadha & Co. advises leading Fortune 500 companies, SMEs and family owned companies on their India entry strategy, structuring their entry, establishing Indian operations, and on legal and regulatory issues that impact them while they conduct their business in the country.
  • Chadha & Co. has an experienced and highly effective dispute resolution team that handles court work as well as arbitration.
  • Chadha & Co. advises various multinational companies on issues of global compliance, including anti bribery and corruption laws in light of the (US) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 1977, (UK) Bribery Act, 2010 and antitrust laws in light of the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act of USA and the Competition Act, 1988 and the Enterprises Act, 2002 of UK and implementing the said legislations along with the corresponding provisions of Indian legislations.
  • Chadha & Co. has prepared various anti-sexual harassment policies under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 for many multinational companies operating in India and regularly undertakes training sessions for employees and internal complaints committee members for such companies.
  • Chadha & Co. assisted a major Japanese steel manufacturer for acquiring the remaining shareholding of its existing Indian joint venture company, pursuant to a decision of the joint venture partner to exit from all non-core businesses.
  • Chadha & Co. has assisted a leading Scandinavian company to wind up its Indian subsidiary by following the necessary compliances provided under various Indian laws, including the (Indian) Companies Act.
  • Chadha & Co. is advising a bankruptcy trustee of an individual, appointed by a Japanese court, on the applicable Indian laws to recover assets of the said individual situated in India.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised an Italian company on their India entry strategy and forming a joint venture to cater to the automotive, tires, consumer electronics, telecommunication and medical industries in India.
  • Chadha & Co. has counselled a Japanese company for acquisition of the shares of an Indian e-commerce and content venture company and handheld them through to successfully acquiring the stake in the target company.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised a leading Nordic financial services group for setting their offices in India for conducting full-fledged banking and finance business in India.
  • Chadha & Co. was engaged by a Japanese automobile recycling company, to advise them on establishing their strategic joint venture in India, to establish the first ever foreign-owned recycling plant for automobiles in the country.
  • Chadha & Co. has assisted a leading Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company by preparing the construction contracts and rendering advice on issues relating to setting up a mobile phones manufacturing unit in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
  • Chadha & Co. has provided legal advisory to a leading Japanese manufacturer of electric wire and optical fibre cables on the issues related to subcontracting, which emerged while executing a project awarded for the laying of copper and HVAC cables in the southern part of India.
  • Chadha & Co. is advising an Indian subsidiary of a Hong Kong company, dealing in clothing retail business, on their legal and regulatory issues faced by them, while conducting their operations in India.
  • Chadha & Co. is advising a Japanese multinational conglomerate company headquartered Japan on its various on-going projects in India, inter alia, relating with power projects, metro rail, railway signalling systems, etc.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised a leading private equity firm headquartered in New York on the applicability of Indian merger control regulations to its acquisition of a German company's business by taking into account the target company is India related turnover and asset value of approx. USD 290 million.
  • Chadha & Co. has provided assistance and advice to an Indian subsidiary of the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles headquartered in Japan, on its acquisition of an Indian company.
  • Chadha & Co. has successfully got the appeal brought against a leading alcohol manufacturing multinational company, by their ex-distributor in India before the Competition Appellate Tribunal for alleged abuse of their dominant position in the Indian market disposed off.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised the world’s largest travel retail company on setting up the company’s operations in India and on legal and regulatory aspects of their duty-free operations at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised and assisted the Indian subsidiary of a leading Swedish company engaged in manufacturing core materials in closing down their manufacturing facility in the state of Tamil Nadu and provided advice on various aspects of terminating the company’s white-collar and blue-collar employees, retrenchment compensation, severance package to managerial personnel and memorandum of settlement between the blue-collar personnel and the company.
  • Chadha & Co. has provided assistance and advice on the acquisition of the motors and controls business of one of the world’s largest and most profitable American companies by a major manufacturer of electric motors in the world.
  • Chadha & Co. has counseled one of the world’s largest car makers headquartered in Italy, on the issue of the requirement of obtaining approval of the Competition Commission of India under India's merger control regulations.
  • Chadha & Co. provided assistance and advice on the India leg of a global asset transfer in the microchip manufacturing industry, including transferring of employees of an STPI to another STPI, and on a wide range of issues viz. retrenchment compensation and obtaining prior necessary approvals from the concerned authorities.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games, on the merger of its two Indian group companies.
  • Chadha & Co. has provided comprehensive advice to one of the largest manufacturers of electric motors in the world on its USD 48 million acquisition of an Indian subsidiary of a large French multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised and assisted a global leading thermal power equipment manufacturing company in forging a joint venture in India and for participating in Indian government tenders.
  • Chadha & Co. has rendered comprehensive advice to one of the leading pharmaceutical companies on termination of a team of workmen on quality-related issues and conducted the domestic enquiry proceedings.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised a listed Canadian company engaged in the energy business on all legal and regulatory aspects of their power projects in India and on a major cross border litigation in Singapore, Canada and India, against a listed Singaporean company in respect of a power project in Andhra Pradesh.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised and assisted one of the world's leading suppliers of vitamins, carotenoids, food, pharmaceutical and personal care products in setting up a manufacturing facility in the state of Gujarat.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised a UK sporting goods manufacturer on their defamation dispute with a major US media corporation.
  • Chadha & Co. has conducted comprehensive due diligence, including from the labour and employment perspective on the proposed disinvestment of the logistics division of a listed Singapore-based company, comprising of subsidiaries operating in about 120 locations across 60 countries and employing about 6,100 employees across the world.
  • Chadha & Co. has assisted with the structuring of an INR 4,400 crore joint venture and technical collaboration transaction between a major Japanese multinational corporation specializing in, inter alia, manufacturing supercritical power generation equipment, and an Indian company, for the purposes of equity participation and technology transfer for the manufacture and supply of 660 MW, 800 MW and 1,000 MW supercritical generators and turbines.
  • Chadha & Co. has advised the Indian subsidiaries of leading multinational companies on the issues of bid rigging and cartelization under the (Indian) Competition Act, 2002.

OUR APPROACH

We, at Chadha & Co., strive to be the preferred partner for all our clients and consciously promote and maintain quality relationships. We pride ourselves for our discerning approach in being a boutique law firm that provides to its clients an alternative to larger Indian firms. Our eclectic mix of professionals fosters creative problem-solving for our clients. Our lawyers are creative, yet pragmatic and business savvy. The experience of serving the world’s most renowned companies remains our firm’s greatest asset.

VALUE STATEMENT

Our partners are involved in a hands-on manner on every assignment. This ensures that our quality of work does not have peaks and troughs - the know-how, experience and commercial understanding of our partners is crucial to our ability to provide consistent, world class service. Our billing rates and the fee charged by us are significantly lower in comparison to those charged by the larger Indian firms. We are nonetheless proud to deliver a quality of work and services that surpass those firms.

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