A family in another country, a flat in Gandhinagar, a will made abroad, a decree from a foreign court. Private international law is the set of rules that decides which system governs each piece, and it is where non-resident clients most often lose ground, usually through documents executed in the wrong form for the border they must cross.
The work
For non-resident Indians and overseas citizens, the practice manages Indian property and disputes from a distance that does not weaken them. Possession and tenancy proceedings, encroachment, partition and succession, conducted under powers of attorney drawn and executed so that Indian authorities will act on them. It obtains succession certificates, probate and heirship documentation where assets in India must pass under a foreign or Indian will.
On the commercial side, the practice advises on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in India, on serving Indian proceedings abroad and foreign proceedings in India, and on the exchange-control questions that sit under every cross-border holding, sale and repatriation.
Foreign-law steps are taken with counsel qualified in the relevant country, with the practice holding the single file.
How the practice approaches it
Every cross-border matter starts with the same three questions. Which law governs. Which forum can decide. Which documents will each system accept. The practice answers them in writing before any filing, because a proceeding begun in the wrong system is expensive to unwind and a document executed in the wrong form is worthless at the counter that matters.