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P&A Law Offices > The Legal 500 Rankings

City focus: National Capital Region: NCR > Dispute resolution Tier 1

P&A Law Offices advises clients on commercial litigation and arbitration and is experienced in cross-border disputes. The team is led by Anand Pathak, Amit Mishra, Gaurav Mahajan, Akshat Hansaria and Vijay Purohit, and is active in the pharmaceutical, infrastructure, power, telecoms and consumer sectors. Mishra handles international arbitration and investment treaty arbitration, while Mahajan is recommended for civil, commercial, and criminal disputes.

India > Antitrust and competition Tier 3

The ‘first class‘ practice at P&A Law Offices frequently assists domestic companies and multinational corporations across the retail, automobile and manufacturing sectors. Anand Pathak heads the practice alongside the ‘extremely diligent and detail oriented’ Sreemoyee Deb, and Shashank Gautam. Gautam is a corporate and regulatory law expert, while Deb is a competition law specialist who handles abuse of dominance and merger control matters before the CCI. Associate partner Anubhuti Mishra represents clients in enforcement, gun-jumping and cartelisation matters.

India > Corporate and M&A Tier 3

Heavily focused on complex domestic and cross-border transactions of significant value, P&A Law Offices advises a diverse range of corporates alongside private equity investors on M&A, distressed transactions and restructuring matters, joint ventures, and associated regulatory and competition aspects of multijurisdictional deals. The team includes internationally experienced lawyers, such as US-qualified managing partner and M&A specialist Anand Pathak, and also enjoys productive relationships with foreign law firms in the US, UK, and Europe, allowing it to handle cross-border deals in diverse jurisdictions. Other key members of the team include Harsh Kumar, noted for his work with Indian start-ups and unicorns on corporate transactions and commercial agreements, Mumbai-based Nabik Syam, who combines M&A, financing, and litigation expertise, and Shashank Gautam, who works with clients in a wide range of industries including chemicals and retail and specialises in transactions with significant domestic and cross-border competition elements. Lawyers are in New Dehli unless otherwise stated.

India > Dispute resolution: arbitration Tier 3

P&A Law Offices fields lawyers across New Delhi and Mumbai as part as its substantial dispute resolution offering. It is the firm of choice for a number of international clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and it has also been instructed by the Indian government on a number of recent arbitrations. Amit Mishra oversees the disputes department, in which both Akshat Hansaria and Vijay Purohit are key names. Corporate law partner Anand Pathak is also often part of large counsel teams in arbitration matters.