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FIRM PROFILE • ANM Global is a full service commercial law firm with presence in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai along with associate offices in Hyderabad, Allahabad, Chandigarh, Ahmadabad and Chennai • We have close ties with various law firms in Singapore, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Munich, New York and in various other foreign jurisdictions. • We operate across diverse industry segments including environmental laws, energy laws, corporate law, civil and commercial litigation, direct and indirect taxation law, employment laws, banking & finance and intellectual property. • Our vision and mission is to provide clients, based in India and globally, access to legal advice. We believe in helping to identify business opportunities as well as advising on how to avoid pitfalls. • The Firm comprises of highly trained team of professionals who are recognized leading experts in their field. This depth of experience and expertise, together with the dedication and diligence of ANM Global, enables the firm to provide clients with exceptional client service. CORPORATE LAW We provide comprehensive corporate services that help clients complete sophisticated transactions in rapidly changing competitive and regulatory environment. Our expertise includes: • Mergers and Acquisitions • Purchase and sale of private limited companies • Assisting in formulating franchise arrangements and structures • Setting up joint venture entities &group company structures • Advising upon the suitability of • Management buy-outs charities and companies limited by • Advising upon and setting up distributorships guarantee • Due diligence • Securing property interests • Company audits • Private company structures • Setting up off shore companies • Demergers • Agency agreements • Buying and selling businesses TAXATION Our Tax team works closely with our corporate, finance, real estate and project finance lawyers to provide innovative solutions in the areas of tax, including income tax, sales tax, service tax, avoidance of double taxation, general tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, state and local taxes, tax policy matters. For international work, the team handles the Indian aspects and acts as the link between a client and a network of trusted law firms in Europe, North America & Asia, which offers access to their tax practices. We combine the expertise of both tax and litigation specialists, who are dedicated to providing a contentious tax service which includes: • Avoidance of lengthy disputes with the tax authorities • Advice on handling tax challenges at any stage in the process leading to finalization of assessments • Where cases go to court, we can provide an integrated tax and litigation service from commencement to ultimate resolution ENVIRONMENT The Firm provides a wide array of environmental legal representation to companies and trade associations in the Energy, Mining and Mineral processing industry. • Our representation includes litigation and due diligence, counseling under The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991, Biological Diversity, 2002 and various other environmental statutes, and advice on natural resources and development issues • We assist clients with assessing, managing and mitigating environmental liabilities and compliance obligations across our substantive environmental practice areas • We work directly with our clients to structure mining transactions in the manner most appropriate to the level of environmental risk encountered. As part of our appellate litigation practice, we have represented various companies in numerous successful challenges in environmental enforcement cases in National Green Tribunal, State Court Litigation concerning historic mining processing properties across the country. LITIGATION • We have vast experience in different spheres of litigation and dispute resolution, ranging from writ petitions, suits, criminal proceedings, recovery proceedings, public interest litigation, bails, anticipatory bails, defamation, property related litigations, matrimonial and custody proceedings etc • We have represented clients before various High Courts in Delhi, Bombay, Chandigarh, Allahabad, Chennai, Jaipur, District and Sessions Courts, Labor Courts, Industrial Tribunals, Commissions including the Company Law Board, Foreign Exchange Management Board, Income Tax Tribunal, and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. • Our team also focus on fraud and white collar related crime, exclusively in complex, high-value disputes that threaten the business and reputation of banks and major corporate and global institutions. We are also involved in: – Investigation of serious and complex frauds in a commercial and regulatory context; – Money Laundering offence; – Cyber related crimes; and – Asset tracing, recovery and enforcement. ENERGY POWER We have extensive experience in matters relating to power transmission, distribution and electricity generation regulation, as well as in the drafting and negotiation of energy-related commercial contracts. Our lawyers provide the following services: • Advising project developers, investors, suppliers & contractors in the power sector on diverse commercial/transactional issues and all aspects of licensing, market structures, competition, performance standards & tariffs; • Providing advice on restructuring of existing legal and regulatory frameworks; • Advising on sustainable development issues like clean development mechanism & environmental compliances; • Handling resolution of disputes in various forums, including regulatory commissions and courts and alternate dispute resolution processes. ENERGY POWER Our services in the power sector include: • In-depth understanding of legislation and regulation at the state and central levels, and their implications across a variety of sectors; • Wide experience in the commercial side of the industry, particularly in negotiating with public sector power utilities; and • The ability to negotiate successful amalgamations, mergers, alliances and partnerships on behalf of private companies with the public sector undertakings in the power sector. Power Procurement Acted as counsel to various private and public companies in connection with several procurement processes, and to potential developers and independent power producers regarding power procurement RFPs and relationships Power Regulation & Transmission Represented both investor and publicly owned electric utilities in hearings and applications before the Electricity Board, and in all aspects of, the electricity industry, including distribution, transmission, generation and retail. Members of the firm also have experience in the Indian electricity retail and generation market, and have advised clients, including retailers, project developers, investors and marketers on a diverse range of matters, including development of solar generation projects, merchant transmission, imports and exports, and other environmental issues. REAL ESTATE Our real estate team includes specialists in banking, mergers and acquisitions, real estate corporate finance, tax, funds, securitisation, litigation and asset finance, as well as construction, planning and other real estate specific expertise. We have significant experience in advising investors on cross-border and multi- jurisdictional investment programmes including: • The buying and selling of investment properties • Land revenue proceedings • Land acquisition proceedings • Preparing Land title search reports • The establishment of investment vehicles such as real estate funds, joint ventures or partnerships and limited partnerships • Cross- border investment advice and structuring • A key part of our advice to clients involves the associated financing and tax aspects of real estate investment. REAL ESTATE- RETAIL /LEISURE PROJECTS We are continually advising investors, developers, retailers, leisure/hotel operators and local authorities on all types of retail and leisure projects. We offer advice in relation to site acquisitions, development, funding, letting, management (including hotel management and franchising agreements), rent review and redevelopment or refurbishment. We have experience in all types of retail and leisure project including: • Town centre retail developments • Out of town and regional shopping centers • Hotels & restaurants • Pubs and nightclubs • Multiplex cinemas. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Our experienced lawyers/patent agents have a wide range of expertise including trademarks, copyright, patents, designs, infringement, passing off, confidential information, registration, transfers, and licensing Trademark Law: • Advising and lodging Patent, trademark applications & filing in multiple jurisdictions • Prospects of success in infringement proceedings • Trade mark & patent licenses. Copyright Law: • Addressing copyright ownership in commercial contracts • Breaches of licensed use • Advice on appropriate action in litigation & infringements. Patent Law: • Patentability of new inventions • Likelihood of infringement of innovations of existing inventions on international registers • Patentability of software. Trade Secrets and Confidential Information: • Circumstances in which confidential information may be used in spite of contractual restraints • Non-disclosure agreements • Injunctions preventing unlawful disclosure of confidential information. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The firm is legal counsel to the Office of the Controller of Certifying Authorities, Ministry of Information Technology on legal modifications and amendments to the Information Technology Rules and Procedures. The firm has also advised clients on their applications to be instated as Certifying Authorities under the Indian Information Technology Act [2000]. In the area of Internet-related crime, the firm advises NASSCOM, the Government of India and in particular, the Computer Emergency Response Team [CERT]. ANM Global has structured a proprietary 'state-of- the-art' IT compliance programme. The firm is one of the few firms in India, with an established Data Protection, Privacy and Corporate Compliance Practice. The firm advises clients around the world on data privacy law in the context of the issues that arise in online business, data mining and data processing. In addition to corporate compliance advisory services, the firm also conducts training programmes in Data Privacy and Corporate Compliance. EMPLOYMENT LAW At ANM Global we have employment law specialists delivering high quality, commercial advice on all aspects of the employment relationship from recruitment through to retirement Lawyers in the firm deal in all laws and regulations related to labor and employment, industrial relations including enactments such as Industrial Dispute Act 1947, Trade Union Act 1926, Equal Remuneration Act 1976, Minimum Wages Act 1948, Payment of Wages Act 1936, Factories Act 1948, Payment of Bonus Act 1965, and Payment of Gratuity Act 1972, Workmen's Compensation Act 1923 amongst others MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW ANM Global offers expansive insight and in-depth expertise in the media and entertainment sector. The firm's long-standing involvement in the industry ranges from advising major multinationals in headline-making and record-setting mergers and acquisitions to representing local and individual artists. Our well qualified lawyers have significant experience in interpreting India's unique laws and in advising the esteemed Indian and foreign clients on compliance with Indian laws and thereby helping them in achieving their business goals. Nidhish Mehrotra - Co-Founder Nidhish Mehrotra a co-founded the firm in 2008 and is also involved actively in management of the firm at the national level represents, he has completed his law from Symbiosis International University in the year 2007 and thereafter he has worked with Khaitan and Khaitan at there Delhi office, he has extensively worked on cross border transaction, he also advises companies on private equity in India, also advised lot many indian companies at the foreign exchange market, his other core expertise includes Intellectual Property Rights where he advises lot of multinational and Indian companies he is a speaker at many forums on the same, he represents companies before various forums, high courts and supreme court of india, including domestic and international commercial arbitration, he advises multinational companies on Competition law, he also advises Indian and Multinational Companies on drafting of various kinds of agreements, including due diligence. He represents and advises companies on Information Technology and has been speakers on various forums with regards to the same. A-6/21, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi-110057 | T.: +91-11-2614 4113, 2614 3592 | E.: [email protected] Corporate Office: A-5, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi-110049 | Tel.: +91 11 26528554, 26528483 | Fax: +91 11 41642299 Mumbai Office: 214, Empire House, Dr. D. N. Road, Fort, Mumbai-400001 Bangalore Office: No. 4/2, ‘Subhani Mansion’ Next to Blue Cross Chambers, Infantry Road Cross, Bangalore-560001 | Tel.: +91 80 60660007