Contract Law

The agreements we work on include supply and purchase agreements, service and consultancy contracts, distribution, dealership, and agency agreements, joint venture and shareholders agreements, franchise arrangements, loan and security documents, leave and licence and lease agreements, construction and works contracts, employment and non compete agreements, and settlement and family arrangement deeds. We draft them to be clear enough that both sides know where they stand, and we review the other side's draft to protect the client from terms that will hurt later.

When a contract is broken we advise on and pursue the remedies the law gives, whether a claim for damages, recovery of liquidated damages and the earnest amount, or specific performance and injunction under the Specific Relief Act, 1963, and we defend such claims for the party said to be in breach. We advise and litigate on questions of force majeure, frustration, indemnity, guarantee, termination, and the meaning of disputed clauses. These disputes are taken through the civil courts, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, and, where the matter warrants, to the Supreme Court of India by appeal and special leave.