FIRM OVERVIEW
MUKHERJEE & ASSOCIATES established with its roots from the thirty year old Attorney house of Mukherjee & Co. In the year 2011, a new full service law office was started in Kolkata, that has been advising businesses across all industry sectors & Individuals. The firm acknowledges rich contributions of Late (Prof.) T.K.Banerjee, Senior Advocate, Calcutta High Court, one of the former Senior Partners of the firm, who embodied the very prinpicles of the firm with professionalism & strength.
The firm gained well deserved reputation over the years, under the leadership of A.Mukherjee, Managing Partner, a former Corporate Legal Counsel, who championed and executed firm's smarter plans & now contribute to the firm's success in an advisory role and heads the advisory function of the firm, traces back to his family history and legacy while he fondly reminisced about his belonging to a family of Lawyers & Judges, for three generations and Legal Luminaries that made significant differences in the legal fraternity that include names of Late CHIEF JUSTICE SABYASACHI MUKHERJEE, Barrister, noted Jurist & 20th Hon'ble CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA (1989-1990). He had also previously served as acting CHIEF JUSTICE OF CALCUTTA HIGH COURT and Late CHIEF JUSTICE PRASANTA BIHARI MUKHERJEE, Barrister, who held Tagore Law Professorship at Calcutta University and became 16th Hon'ble CHIEF JUSTICE OF CALCUTTA HIGH COURT (1970-1972 ), leaving a trail of glory and pleasant remembrance.
● We, with our competent and highly experienced and specialist team of Attorneys, Counsels and Consultants, advise on all aspects of Corporate, Civil & Criminal Laws.
● We are actively engaged in advising clients research-based legal assistance and specialise in all legal aspects of Real Estate, Projects and Infrastructure Development and General Corporate-Commercial matter which include Litigation Support Advice & Arbitration matter. We are committed to adopting innovative approach with utmost priority through embracing the highest level of professional standards and accessibility, quality and integrity, providing services across India and Abroad through our extensive network of our resident representatives' offices & Associates.
OUR PARTNERS | ASSOCIATES & COUNSELS :
● A.Mukherjee
Managing Partner
LL.B(Cal),PGDCFA, AIMA., Solicitor
●P.G.Ghosh LL.B, Solicitor
(Ex Partner Fowler & Co)
Jr. Associates
● R.K.Gupta B.Com(H),LL.B (SLS Pune), DCL.
● Ms. A.Halder B.A.LL.B(H)(Cal.)
● Ms. A.Shaw B.A., M.B.A., LL.B (Utkal), PGDP.
● Ms.Priyanka Das B.A. LL.B (Cal.)
Associate
● P. Dutta B.A. LL.B, LLM
Sr. Associates
● S.Basu LL.B ( Cal.)
● R. Sen Bar-at-Law
● A.Garg LL.M ( Delhi )
● K.Tripathy LL.B ( Delhi )
( Ex-Partner Amarchand & Mangaldas )
● Dr. S. Chakraborty LL.M (London),
Ph.D (London)
COUNSELS :
● S.Sarkar ● R.Bachawat
● T.Bose ● R.Sen
KEY PRACTICE AREAS
l. REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION | PROJECTS-ENERGY- INFRASTRUCTURE & FINANCE | LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE
II. CORPORATE-COMMERCIAL & REGULATORY ADVISORY| LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE
III. DISPUTE RESOLUTION-LITIGATION & ADVISORY | ARBITRATION | LEGAL, REGULATORY & CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS
I. REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION | PROJECTS-ENERGY-INFRASTRUCTURE & FINANCE | LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE
● The Firm offers, with its years' of experience in high profile & innovative real estate transactions, a broad range of legal assistance in the field of Property, Corporate & Commercial Real Estate & Infrastructure Sector, RERA & Construction Contracts, Realty Investments Funds, Debt/Project Finance and Development, Acquisitions & Disposals, Lease Administration, Asset Securitisation /Financing, Transaction Structuring Advice.
● Tender offers & legal compliance, PPP & BOT Projects, EPC Contracts, JVs, FDI, PE/ VC, REIT, Restructuring Public Asset monetisation, Privatisation and beyond, Legal Risks-Matrix & Appraisals across various sectors in Infrastructure in Urban Infrastructure & Real Estate, Roads & Bridges, Ports & Shipping, Railways, Airports, Power, Petro-Chemical, Electricity, Mining, Pipelines, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, Logistics, Water & Waste, Telecommunications, Health, Housing, Banking & Infra-finance & others.
● ARBITRATION: Construction Disputes, Claims, Force-Majeure, Domestic & International Commercial Arbitration.
● Legal Advice & Documentation in this Asset portfolio encompass Sectors like Housing, Commercial, Residential, Industrial Property, SEZ, IT Park & Logistics, Townships.
● Land Acquisition, LRTT, Land Ceiling & Encumbrances, Thika Tenancy, BLRO, KMC, Title verification & Conversion, Adverse possession,Transfer of ownership, Partition, Construction issues ( delay, quality etc.), Illegal possession, Landlord-tenant issues, Leave & License, Developer's claim, Banking & Finance matter, Legal assistance in Purchase and Sale, Contracts and Agreements, Advice on vital aspects of Regulatory issues regulating construction & developments, Zoning.
● Transactional Real Estate Advice to Corporates & Individuals, Registration pertaining to ownership & occupancy. Property Insurance, Lease rentals, Estate Planning & Property Management issues, Inheritance and Succession.
● Legal Due Diligence
● On NRIs Real Estate Services, we advise NRIs on all of their property issues including FEMA & fund repatriation, IBC/ NPA/ NCLT/ RERA & Consumer Complaints.
● We assist to make wills and Outline Property Distributions after death. We also offer legal assistance in Title Search, Tax Planning and Advise on the Protection of beneficiary and Trustees' rights in contentious cases.
● We act for Owners, Developers, Corporate Houses, Individuals, NRIs, Government & Private Bodies.
II. CORPORATE-COMMERCIAL & REGULATORY ADVISORY | LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE
● The Firm advises on all aspects of Corporate Laws & Commercial matter assisting formation, operation, governance and legal aspects of corporations and business entities, advising on corporate governance matters including Board structures, Director's responsibilities, shareholder rights, compliance with corporate laws and regulatory requirements, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency, Leveraged buy-outs, Amalgamations, Demerger & Disinvestments, Project & Lease Financing, Structuring & Negotiation of documents for Energy-Power-Infrastructure, Maritime & P&I Club, Transportation-Airport-Port & Logistics, Oil, Gas & Mining, TMT, Pharma, Health Care & Life Sciences, FDI, PE/ VC Investments, M&A, JVs, covering all deals including listing and business start-ups, Corporate governance & Compliance, CSR funds, Cross-Border deals, Agency and Franchise, Contractual Ventures, Banking & Finance, Debt-Equity Capital Market, ECB, IPOs, High yield Bonds & Debt issuances, CCI, Industrial Relations,Taxation, WTO, Export-Import, International Trade & Technology Transfer and Insurance and indemnity, Risk Assessment, Analysis and data protection, Corporate Investigation, Due Diligence. We assist in obtaining Statutory Permissions and Sanctions from various Regulatory and Government Bodies, Departments and Agencies like ROC, RBI, FIPB, MOF and other Nodal Agencies, Tribunals & Commissions.
● Our competent Corporate Lawyers team will assess how to meet expectation of the Board and the Shareholders, evolve strategies for dealing with increasing complexity, ambiguity, volatility and uncertainty prevailing in markets and political shifts.
● We act for Domestic and international Corporate Clients on Transactional, Regulatory & Contentious issues.
● INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ADVISORY- We are involved in advising on all kinds of Intellectual Property Rights matter, IPR Transactions & Advisory, including Patent, TradeMark & Copyrights, Patent Search, Designs, Geographical Indications, Plant Variety Protection, Licensing, Patent Maintenance & Renewal, Domain Disputes, Patent Infringement & Violations, International Filing Issues & services across all Countries & all the Industries like Pharma & Healthcare, Life Sciences, Agriculture & Cultivation, Biotechnology, Software & Electronics, Internet Protocol, Information Technology, Food & Beverages, Media & Entertainment as well as for Start-ups building their IP portfolios and providing Litigation Support Advice.
● We operate on a strong IT backbone with extensive database comprising seasoned team of Attorneys, Professionals, Technical Personnel and Assistants.
● We act for the IP clients providing them with effective advice to design, implement and protect an IP strategy using the legal system for defending their Intellectual Property Ownership, in the context of business, operations and profits.
● Matters are discussed and explained to the clients at the very outset with general guidelines, nature of steps likely to be taken and estimate bill of costs to ensure complete transparency.
● The Firm maintains complete information on all the relevant legal and procedural issues to ensure best practices & professional standards.
● The Billing System of the Firm is based on factually recorded data of number and volume of work done, nature of complexity involved, number of Attorneys & Counsels engaged or number of conferences held & opinions obtained on a case to case basis, time spent and the type of work done at every stage.