New Delhi · Gandhinagar

Sector

Infrastructure, Construction & EPC

Contractors, developers and project companies, where claims build up over years and are decided on the project record.

Construction disputes are archives with interest running. Measurement books, correspondence, hindrance registers, extension applications, minutes. The side that kept and understands the record usually wins, whatever the merits felt like on site.

The practice acts for contractors and subcontractors against government, PSU and private employers, and for project companies managing disputes downward through their supply chains. The recurring matters are payment and escalation claims, termination and risk-purchase disputes, guarantee-invocation emergencies, and arbitration from invocation to enforcement.

The practice also works during the project, not only after it. Notices drafted when events happen, claims recorded in the form the contract requires, and dispute-board and conciliation stages used with the final forum in mind. A claim documented in real time costs a fraction of one reconstructed years later.

Situations common in this sector
  1. Time-sensitiveA government buyer is withholding payment or invoking our bank guaranteeHow do we recover what the department owes, or stop a guarantee encashment, without destroying the working relationship or our tender eligibility
  2. Act promptlyA counterparty owes us money and is not payingWhich recovery route actually gets us paid, and how do we choose among demand, suit, arbitration, insolvency and cheque proceedings
  3. Act promptlyWe have received, or need to send, an arbitration noticeWhat does invoking arbitration actually start, and what must be done in the first weeks to avoid handicapping the whole case
  4. Time-sensitiveOur lender has started enforcement against secured assetsWhat can the bank actually do under its enforcement notice, and what are our lawful options at each stage
  5. Time-sensitiveAn insolvency petition has been threatened or filed against our companyHow serious is this, what happens if it is admitted, and what can be done before and after filing
  6. Time-sensitiveAn adverse step is imminent and we need urgent protectionCan a court or tribunal intervene before the damage happens, and what do we need in hand to ask credibly
  7. Act promptlyOur MSME invoices remain unpaid beyond the promised timeDoes our registration give us a stronger route to recover these dues, and how does the statutory mechanism actually work
  8. Act promptlyOur land or site has a title, possession or approval problemWhat does the record actually show, and how do we cure it, defend it or price it before it decides the project for us
Capabilities this sector draws on
  1. Core capabilityGovernment, PSU & Public-Contract DisputesWhen the counterparty is the State, a department or a public-sector undertaking
  2. Core capabilityCommercial Disputes & ArbitrationWhen a commercial relationship stops working and the documents start mattering
  3. Core capabilityNotices, Orders & Urgent Interim ProtectionWhen something adverse has arrived, or is about to, and time is the first problem
  4. Supporting capabilityReal Estate & Industrial LandWhen title, possession or land-use questions stand between a business and its site
  5. Supporting capabilitySports, Events and Sporting InfrastructureThe law behind the stadium, the federation and the fixture, from the venue on the ground to the rulebook that governs play
  6. Supporting capabilityMSME ReceivablesWhen a smaller enterprise is owed money by a larger buyer and needs leverage that works

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