About
Veritas Legal is an Indian law firm established in February 2015 by Abhijit Joshi. The team brings together the experience of lawyers who have worked in India’s leading law firms. The experience has been largely focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial advisory and transactions. The aim is to provide incisive client-focused legal solutions based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment in India.
Practice areas
Mergers & Acquisitions
Veritas Legal is widely recognized for its profound expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions. The firm is well versed with the regulatory complexities and issues pertaining to diverse industry sectors.
Private Equity & Venture Capital
This is one of the core practice areas and the firm’s expertise extends across a wide and varied range of sectors including Real Estate, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Fintech, Retail & Franchising, E-commerce etc.
Real Estate
The team is led by qualified solicitors with experience of over a decade in the field of real estate laws in India, advising on all aspects of traditional real estate deals as well as corporate real estate investments and matters.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Team represent clients on Civil and Criminal matters alike, including White Collar Crimes. The team’s expertise extends to various fora across the country, including but not limited to the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts of India, National Company Law Tribunal, Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Securities Appellate Tribunal, Sessions Court, Magistrates, Tribunal (SAT), BIFR, AAIFR, City Civil Courts, Small Causes Courts, Enforcement Directorate and Consumer Forum.
White Collar Crime
The firm has represented individuals and multinational companies across sectors, addressing complex and sensitive issues pertaining to economic offence, fraud, anti-corruption, money-laundering and whistle blower complaints.
Competition
The firm advise and assist clients on a wide gamut of competition law issues such as merger control; anti-competitive agreements; abuse of dominant position; analysis of commercial agreements, licensing and distribution arrangements; analysis of sector specific policies and market studies to identify competition concerns; competition advisory; competition compliance and trainings.
Banking & Finance
The firm has an extensive experience in Banking & Finance. The lawyers have advised on a wide range of financial products, including securitization, financing, external commercial borrowings, syndicated lending and structured products, distressed assets and debt restructuring.
Private Client
The Private Client practice consists of experienced professionals, who are prudent in understanding issues relating to the complexity of family function, generational differences and ambitions. The practice also integrates liaising with various service providers in multiple jurisdictions in order to provide holistic solutions for resident and non-resident Indians having global assets. The firm has demonstrated seamless navigation in the interplay of multiple jurisdictional laws for clients with global assets.
Labor & Employment
The firm’s broad client base includes employees and employers alike, viz. senior executives, senior employees, professionals and more junior employees within all industry sectors, including investment banking, private equity, legal, accountancy, insurance, sports, media, technology, energy, retail and education sectors.
Projects & Infrastructure
The lawyers possess multi-sector experience in advising on matters in the projects and infrastructure space. The team has vast experience in advising developers, sponsors, contractors, domestic and foreign investors, multilateral agencies, governmental agencies, banks, non-banking financial institutions, amongst others, with investments, exits, project financing, project development, bid process, structuring, project contracting, regulatory issues, public-private partnership, contractual advisory etc.
Restructuring & Insolvency
The firm has been advising various domestic and international banks, multinationals and non-banking financial companies on insolvency and restructuring related aspects. The team comes with years of experience in the commercial and litigation aspects in insolvency and restructuring space.
Data Protection, Privacy & Security
The firm brings in significant expertise with its wide-ranging experience in advising domestic and international companies operating across various industries such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, banking, insurance, consumer goods, internet service providers etc.
Private Equity in Real Estate
The firm has significant experience in investment transactions, the firm also has rich experience in real estate transactions of all types. In fact, they have a dedicated team of partners and associates who have a special focus on PERE, which combines two core practice areas of the firm, and is equipped to advise on all stages of any PERE investments.
Sectors
- E-Commerce
- Education
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Food & Beverages
- Hotels & Hospitality
- Information Technology, Data & AI
- Insurance
- Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare
- Retail & Franchise
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
- Transport, Logistics & Warehousing
Jobs/Internships
Job Application Form: https://veritaslegal.in/careers/#1665975066954-adf7648c-05f0
Internship Application Form: https://veritaslegal.in/careers/#1665975066955-3a51dc1e-6989
Email Address: recruitment@veritaslegal.in
Awards and Recognitions
- Ranked 15 in the Top 50 India Ranking 2019 by RSG India Report
- Awarded ‘Rising Star Firm of the Year’ by IFLR1000 India Awards 2020.
- Awarded ‘Rising Law Firm of the Year’ in the ALB India Law Awards 2020.
- Recognized as ‘Employer of Choice’ (India) in 2019.
- Recognized for ‘Corporate & Commercial’ in the Indian Law Firm Awards in 2019 and 2020.
- Awarded ‘Pharma & Life Science Law Firm of the Year’ in the Business World Legal Leaders Awards 2019.
- Ranked No. 8 by deal count for India Announced Deals in the Bloomberg Global M&A Legal Rankings 2020.
- Venture Intelligence – Ranked No. 11 by deal count in the Venture Intelligence M&A League Table 2020.
Office locations
Mumbai
Veritas Legal, Forbes Building, 1st Floor, Charanjit Rai Marg, Fort, Mumbai 400 001
Telephone: +91-22-43686700
Fax: +91-22-43686799
Email: contact@veritaslegal.in
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Public contacts and social handles
Contact Page: https://veritaslegal.in/contact/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veritas-legal-advocates-and-solicitors/
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