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Mr Samir Malik

+91-11- 4080-6607 samir.malik@dskgal.com

Work Department

Dispute Resolution; Infrastructure, Energy & Projects

Position

Partner

Career

Samir, has an extensive and experience of more than 12 years in varied areas of law. He primarily specialises in Energy, Regulatory & Policy Litigation and Dispute Resolution.

He has extensive experience of having strategized and prosecuted several high stake litigations of national importance on behalf of prominent players in energy, infrastructure, banking, real estate and media & entertainment sectors.

He has substantial experience of appearing and conducting cases before various courts, tribunals and quasi-judicial bodies pan India. He has undertaken litigations concerning wide range of subjects including Electricity, Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Contract, Real Estate, Securitization, Banking and Corporate Laws.

He has also steered, negotiated and closed various debt transactions worth hundreds of crores in power sector, on behalf of leading financial institutions and banks.

Energy, Regulatory and Policy

• Rendered strategic legal advice (both pre and post litigation) and drafted pleadings like statement(s) of claims, statement(s) of defense, petitions, replies, rejoinders, and appeals etc.
• Represented oil marketing companies, gas companies, state electricity utilities and power trader(s) in various high stake litigations involving thousands of crores of rupees before various fora including regulators, high court(s) and the supreme court of India
• Conducted due diligence for investment by a private equity fund in a listed company in oil and gas sector
• Conducted legal compliance audit on a listed company in oil and gas sector

Arbitration

• Formulated strategy and rendered legal advise for arbitration process,
• Drafted documents like statements of claim, statements of defense, rejoinders, affidavits of evidence, written submissions etc.,
• Conducted examination, cross examination and re-examination of witnesses,
• Conducted hearings both interim and final,
• Sectors Covered – Infrastructure, Energy, FMCG, Heavy Industries and Real Estate. 

Civil and Commercial Litigation

• Assisted clients with formulation of comprehensive and innovative dispute resolution strategies both before and after a dispute arise,
• Rendered legal opinions on wide array of issues in Contract Act, Sales of Goods Act, Transfer of Property Act, Companies Act, Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, Negotiable Instruments Act, Stamp Act, Registration Act etc. and drafted documents for filings in courts,
• Steered, strategized and contested various high stake litigations including civil suits, writ petitions, winding-up petitions, appeals, revisions, reviews and special leave petitions.

Languages

English and Hindi

Memberships

• The Bar Council of Delhi
• Supreme Court Bar Association
• Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association

Education

LL.M, University of Warwick, U.K