Advise and assistance on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, fund raise (both debt and equity), Private Equity and Debt Funds, IPOs and capital markets related litigation.
The Firm aside advising established businesses, also advises and assists Start Ups and MSMEs with legal/regulatory compliances, commercial contracting and issues related to other operational aspects of their business.
Advise and assistance in Information Technology Legal Compliance and Cyber Security Governance, strategizes and assistance in or against Information Technology Enforcements/Raids, Cyber Crimes, Awareness Training on Information Technology Compliance, Cyber Security and Crimes, Electronic Record and Evidence. Assistance in drawing up or entering into software/hardware and related systems licensing and supply agreements.
Advise and assistance in relation to strategizing and conducting litigation (civil, criminal, consumer, constitutional and others) before the District Courts through to the Supreme Court of India.
Advise and assistance in conducting arbitration proceedings (both domestic and international commercial arbitration) before individual to institutional arbitral tribunals like SIAC, etc. covering disputes ranging from complex infrastructure contracts to oil and gas contracts.
The Firm also takes pride in having three certified mediators. Each mediator has close to a decade’s experience in conducting mediation across one or more of Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, Chandigarh High Court and District Courts in Delhi. Collectively the mediators have conducted close to two thousand mediations.
Advice and assistance in restructuring, which is complex in nature with transactional challenges. Firm’s detailed and comprehensive approach, addresses a wide range of issues that are faced in general during restructuring. The Firm’s advice encompasses formal restructuring under statutes and regulations as well as informal restructuring driven by lenders.
Advice and assistance on unique demands of one of India’s most heavily regulated sectors. The firm advises real estate companies in investments, joint ventures, property acquisitions/ sales, and leases. The firm’s lawyers specialize and have vast knowledge about real estate structures and have a wide range of experience with handling complex issues in this sector.
Advise and assistance on a range of HR and IR issues ranging from employment agreements (both blue collar and white collar) to trade union/collective bargaining agreements to handling labour disputes before various fora. ALO advises and represents clients before Central Government Industrial Tribunal, Provident Fund Appellate Tribunal, Industrial Tribunals, ESI Courts, etc.
On the compliance side, ALO advises and assists clients on labour compliance issues, periodic audits, including drawing up internal code of conduct handbooks. ALO also assists clients in carrying out domestic enquiries and disciplinary actions.
ALO also advises and assists clients on workplace related environment issues, including on compliance as well as internal procedures associated with POSH Guidelines (Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Work Place). ALO Lawyers have experience of participating as members on committees formed to adhere to, including address sexual harassment complaints. As par of its ‘on going learning’ process, ALO from time to time conducts training and awareness programmes to keep clients updated and compliant under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
Advise and assistance on environmental issues, associated regulatory issues, including filing of or defending against complaint(s) filed before the National Green Tribunals (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in relation to issues under the Air, Water & Environment Protection Act.