For ONGC

• Has successfully dealt issues of VAT & CST over discounted / subsidised crude oil before Tribunal & High Court.
• Has successfully dealt issues of VAT & CST over discounted Kerosene & LPG for PDS before Tribunal & High Court.
• Has successfully dealt issues of Central Excise over TRANSIT LOSS of NAPTHA (highly volatile substance) before High Court.
• Has successfully dealt issues of Income Tax over TDS on various allowance like uniform allowances before High Court.
• Conducted open-ended round table conference on ESI & its applicability at ONGC Hazira Plant for top & middle management.
• Are successfully handling & appearing in arbitration before arbitration tribunal & lower courts & High Court.
• Handling all kinds of Tender related cases in High Court.
• Has successfully dealt issues of LAR & its appeal before lower courts & High Court.
• Has successfully dealt port related & TAMP rates issues before tribunal & authorities & High Court.
• Has successfully got terminated Arbitration Award before High Court.
• Has successfully handled the issues & litigations before High Courts in ROU (Right of USE) related issues involving laying of pipeline.
• Handling ROU acquisition cases starting from notices, court applications & even before High Court.
• Has been legal project consultant for NAPTHA feedstock pipeline of Opal Dahej.
• Have drafted various special purpose deeds including contracts, undertakings, sale agreements etc.
• Have done various due diligences (Title Investigation) work.
• Have efficiently & quickly got released the crude oils from police authorities.
• Handling Leave & Licencing issues with Kandla Port Trust
• Handling LAQ matters at High Court & Reference Court.
• Handling LAQ refund matters.
• Handling ROU – PMP compensation matters both before HIGH Court & Lower Courts.
• Handling service matters like companionate appointment matters
• Successfully handling issues & disputes with regard to gas sale contract & of is pricing disputes both before arbitrations & High Court.
• Handling issues & disputes of power purchase agreements and wheeling issues and compliance of ABT orders & SLDC issues under electricity act before Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), Gandhinagar.
• Handling quashing petitions against CMD & Directors.
• Defending complaint filed by ESIC.
• Handling international contract related arbitration applications u/s.9 & 11 both before High Court & lower courts
• Handling international contract related arbitration proceedings
• Have appeared before Supreme Court of India for defending PMP cases.
• Handling tax matters wrt TDS on uniform allowance.
• Handling Gujarat Sales Tax matters wrt Turn Over Tax.
• Handling lease related temporary acquisition and demand of permanent acquisition under new Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
• Handling Liquidation matters related to MOU partner in oil field development MOU before Bombay High Court.
• Handling NCLT cases for ONGC.
• Regularly appearing in domestic & international arbitration having seats both in India and abroad.

For OPaL

• Contractual disputes & its vetting along with retainer opinion for OPaL
• Appeals before High Court with regard to international contracts & international bank guarantee.
• Defending litigations of sub-contractors for their claim and interim injunctions.
• Vetting of contract papers and all communications and preparing of synopsis & date wise chronology as a preparedness for arbitration proceedings
• Handling international contract related arbitration applications u/s.9 & 11 both before High Court & lower courts
• Handling police complaints of sub-contractors of OPaL
• Handling issues relating Drainage Cess by GIDC in SEZ Dahej plant of OPaL
• Handling issues of gas pipeline in SEZ in case of GSPL vs GAIL & OPaL
• Handling contractual labour related cases in High Court.
• Handling all kinds of Tender related cases in High Court.
• Handling NCLT cases filed against OPaL for CIRP process.
• Handling MSMED cases filed against OPaL for in Gujarat & Uttar Pradesh.
• Handling international arbitration having venue in Singapore and also appeared in High Court of Singapore with Local Law Firm associate.
• For Cargo solar power and infrastructure
• Have successfully managed & monitored lawful acquisition of 100 Acres of land & 67 acres of land from Gujarat Government for solar power farm by ensuring that all legal formalities are complied.
• Are successfully monitoring legal aspect for commissioning of solar equipment’s for solar farm.
• Are dealing various legal issues with regard to power purchase agreement and contesting the same before Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), Gandhinagar.
• All Liaising works for obtaining NA permission and getting statutory compliance
• Effectively done adjudication for all types of documents and its executions.

For Cargo solar power and infrastructure

• Have successfully managed & monitored lawful acquisition of 100 Acres of land & 67 acres of land from Gujarat Government for solar power farm by ensuring that all legal formalities are complied.
• Are successfully monitoring legal aspect for commissioning of solar equipment’s for solar farm.
• Are dealing various legal issues with regard to power purchase agreement and contesting the same before Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC), Gandhinagar.
• All Liaising works for obtaining NA permission and getting statutory compliance
• Effectively done adjudication for all types of documents and its executions.

For GAIL (I) Ltd.

• Have successfully handled revenue authority related issues.
• Have successfully executed the arbitration award.
• Have handled PF related issues involved in contracts and its litigation before various courts.
• Successfully handling issues & disputes with regard to gas sale contract & of is pricing disputes both before arbitrations & High Court.
• Criminal matters for pipeline leakage accidents.
• Drafting & vetting of various business contracts & special purpose agreements.
• Have successfully conducted mutation work for assets of GAIL.
• Are involved in all legal work pertaining other than Gujarat also.
• Handling LAQ matters at High Court & Reference Court.
• Handling LAQ refund matters.
• Handling ROU – PMP encroachment matter at PATAN, MEHSANA, Maharashtra
• Handling ROU – PMP matters before Gujarat High Court & local courts
• Handling NCLT cases for GAIL against rejection of claim by RP in Reliance proposal for Alok Ind.
• Handling NCLT cases for GAIL and NTPC and ONGC against nil payment to operational creditor by Arcellor Mittal India Ltd. In CIRP of Essar Steel Ltd. resulting into suggestion of 15% share in proceeds by NCLT Ahmedabad.
• Handling NCLT cases for GAIL against rejection of claims by RP of Videocon Industries Ltd. in NCLT Mumbai.
• Handling service matter with regard to direct recruitments for all selected candidates.

For LIC of India

• Have successfully handled various consumer related cases
• Have mutated various properties in favour of LIC which has been given by nationalisation of insurance sector & by way of LIC Act.
• Have successfully dealt revenue authority related issues.
• Handling cases related to estate & refunds of excess paid stamp duties to government.
• Handling cases related to pension cases and annuity related disputes & market related investments.
• Handling cases related to safe guarding investments in liquidation proceedings.
• Have handled financing related issues involved in contracts and its litigation before various courts.
• Successfully handling various Pension & Gratuity Scheme related litigations before consumer forums & commissions and High Court.
• Handling tendering disputes matter for Petlad branch office both in Civil Court & Revision case in High Court.
• Handling leave & licence disputes matter for branch office.
• Legal opinions of group fraud cases of various branched

As Standing Central Government Counsel

• Have successfully dealt cases with respect to defence forces, Central Excise & Customs, environment issues, internal security, ports & maritime issues, service related cases, mines & mineral related cases
• Have dealt with court martial cases before High Court.

As Standing Counsel, UGC

• Sr. Partner, Adv. Suman Khare is dealing all litigations in State of Gujarat pertaining to UGC & other educational related matters / works.
• Dealt teachers recruitment related matters on the aspect of equivalence of PG degrees.
• Dealing matters related to refund of student fee claim for un-approved courses.
• Dealing matters relating to infringement of UGC Guidelines & Regulations.
• Dealing matters pertaining to recognition of degrees in various state appointments & merit lists.
• Dealing PIL matters against Collage & University.
• Dealing cases wrt recognition of various courses, universities, degrees & colleges.
• Dealing cases and legal matters of INFLIBNET which is a body under UGC.

For Ashok Leyland Ltd.

• Have managed & legality in raising of Rs. 300 crore & various other series of fund raising through hypothecation of Non-Convertible Debentures (NDC) and execution of relevant deed.
• Have successfully got exonerated the company from paying damages at the stage of execution of award by filing appeal before High Court & getting the matter remand back and thereafter getting award reversed.
• Handling cases with corporate engineering agreement issues
• Handling service related issue with power engine business
• Are regularly providing retainer solutions.
• Dealing frivolous claim of banks against ALL before DRT, Pune & Ahmedabad.

For Power Grid

• Have successfully dealt ROW (Right of Way) matter of agitating farmers against Aurangabad – Boisar Power Transmission Line before Bombay High Court.
• Have successfully dealt ROW (Right of Way) matter of agitating farmers against 400 KVDC Mundra – Limdi Power Transmission Line before Gujarat High Court.
• ROW compensation appeals before various District Courts
• ROW matter wrt objections before Mamlatdar & Collector
• Handling S.16 of Indian Telegraph Act applications before Mamlatdar, Collector & District Courts.
• Handling Labour Court matter at Ahmedabad
• Precautionary Caveats both at local courts & High Court
• Dealing litigations at Delhi High Court.
• Handling cases before National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai
• Handling writ petitions at Madhya Pradesh High Court, both at Indore & Jabalpur of BOCW cess cases.

For Banks & financial institutions.

• Dealing approximately 5000 cases across Gujarat which includes civil suit, executions, Sec.9 applications, Sec.34 applications, insolvency suits, Sec138 NI Act complaints, muddamal cases, criminal complaints.
• Have dealt issues with police authorities & other enforcement agencies.
• Have conducted successful 9 auctions in courts across Gujarat.
• Conducting arbitration for the clients at locations.
• Have done more than 4000 due diligences (Title Investigation) work for both SME, Home loans, Corporate funding.
• Have successfully handled the formation of consortium of lenders.
• HANDELING assets reconstruction cases in DRT, before OL, Company petitions etc.
• Continuously filing & defending cases for banks & financial institutions across Gujarat before civil courts, criminal courts, Debt Recovery Tribunal [DRT] & Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal [DRAT], High Court, Consumer Forums, State Commissions, National Commissions.
• Is dealing ultra vires issue for IDBI Bank before High Court.
• Handling various type of cases before National Company Law Tribunal [NCLT], Ahmedabad.
• Dealing high value consortium finance recovery matters before DRT & High Court.
• Handling cases for obtaining DM orders & physical possession assistance under SARFAESI Act
• Dealing Company Applications, Winding Up proceedings for the various banks & ARCIL before High Court & OL.
• Have successfully dealt ultra – vires petition against the bank licences of IDBI bank both before Gujarat High Court & Supreme Court.
• Firm is specially empanelled with SBI for large case above Rs.100 crore.
• Have successfully dealt critical matters when IDBI Bank was facing Indian Commercial Court order and Saudi Arabia Court and Dubai Court order. A writ petition was filed in Gujarat High Court and got favorable order due to which bank’s and country’s image is saved in International financial world.

For insurance companies

• Have defended more than 2000 claim related cases before Forums across Gujarat, State Commissions & National Commissions.
• Have got 95% of appeals in favour before commissions by getting reversed the orders of Forum.
• Have handled the issues related to regulatory issue & revenue issue before High Court.
• Dealing administrative related matters wrt lease agreements of branches, data theft by employees, labour matters.
• Dealing various labour related matters.
• Dealing employee related cases.
• Dealing IT & IPR theft cases.
• Dealing Ombudsman related cases and challenging them before Gujarat High Court & Bombay High Court.

For other clients.

• Have successfully dealt with service related cases including companionate appointments, promotion & pay scale related cases, pension cases, disciplinary action cases.
• Case against Railway for clean & adequate drinking water & sanitation facilities for labours at Nadiad Railway Godown & got amicus query appointed for time bound implementation of said facility construction work.
• Handling cases arising out from labour courts, MACT tribunals, civil courts & Session courts.
• Handling cases with respect to land & revenue.
• Handling cases with respect to medical negligence.
• Handling cases for students with respect to Universities.
• Handling cases with respect to family laws and family disputes.
• Handling various criminal cases including quashing matters, criminal appeals, criminal miscellaneous applications, etc before High Court.
• Handling writ petitions, writ appeals [LPA], first appeals, second appeals, arbitration petitions, company petitions, company applications, winding up proceedings, tax appeals, MACT appeals, Arbitration appeals, ultra vires cases before High Court of Gujarat.
• Liaising with various Government departments for getting regulatory approvals & audits.
• Drafting & registering all kind of deeds viz. sale deed, mortgage deed, agreement to sell, release deed, gift deed, leave & licence agreements, undertakings, consortium deed, NDC Hypothecation deeds & all sort of documentation work.
• Have handled cases for Supreme Court of India and got cases favourably dismissed at admission stage after effective arguments.
• Have obtained interim stay by Gujarat High Court in case of wrongly invocation of Bank Guarantees.
• Handling various type of family cases.

Miscellaneous Work / assignments / conference / Conventions

• Conducted open-ended round table conference on ESI & its applicability at ONGC Hazira Plant for top & middle management.
• Partner Akshat Khare participated in Symposium wrt Amendments in Arbitration Act conducted by LCIA with guest of Honour Ret. Justice A.P. Shah Chairman of 20th Law Commission.
• Senior Partner Suman Khare being Guest of Honour delivered speech on Woman’s Day Function on 08/03/2017 at ONGC Mehsana.
• Interviews of Akshat Khare and News Paper article was published in Times of India, Divya Bhashkar, Sandesh, Zee TV, TV9 & ABP Asmita.
• Newspaper article for orders / argument by Akshat Khare in Times of India, Economic Times, Money Control with respect to Essar Steel, Vediocon and Alok Industries under IBC and NCLT.