OUR PRACTICE
Advocates and Legal Consultants in Delhi for Commercial Disputes
Agarwal Law Chamber handles commercial disputes, arbitration and the corporate work around them. This page is built around the problems clients bring us, not the labels a firm gives itself.
Most people don't read a law firm's practice page out of curiosity. Something's gone wrong, or is about to, and they're trying to work out whether the firm in front of them handles it. So this page is built around the problems, not the labels.
Agarwal Law Chamber is a Delhi chamber of advocates and legal consultants working mainly in commercial disputes and arbitration, with a corporate practice that supports clients between them. Below is what each area actually deals with, and the kind of matter that tends to bring someone to it. Whichever area yours falls in, the counsel you speak to is the one who runs it.
Below is what our legal consultant service actually deals with, and the kind of matter that tends to bring someone to it.
OUR EXPERTISE
SERVICES OFFERED
At Agarwal Law Chamber, we offer a comprehensive range of legal services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. Our dedicated team of experienced professionals is committed to delivering exceptional results with integrity, expertise, and personalized attention. Explore our core practice areas
Labour & Employment
We draft employment agreements, HR and POSH policies, advise on disciplinary and grievance matters, and handle industrial and employment litigation, including ESOP structuring and workforce restructuring.
A Commercial Dispute That's Already Moved to Court
A supplier hasn't paid. A contract's been breached. A shareholder's gone to war. This is where the chamber does most of its work. As a civil litigation lawyer team, we run commercial suits, recovery actions, company petitions and writ proceedings before the Supreme Court, all High Courts, subordinate courts and tribunals, much of it pan-India. We take a file from the first investigation of facts through pleadings to final argument. The strategy doesn't change hands halfway through.
Some disputes are better kept out of open court, and many commercial contracts now require it. We act in domestic references and in international commercial arbitration seated in India and abroad, from the first notice to enforcing the award. Alternative dispute resolution in India runs largely on the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. We work inside that framework daily, including the enforcement stage that decides whether an award is worth anything. The disputes reach across financial services, banking, telecom, construction, energy, oil and gas, and infrastructure.
When You'd Rather Arbitrate Than Litigate
For a lot of businesses the most valuable thing they own is intangible. Our intellectual property practice handles both sides: securing rights and defending them. We prosecute patent and trademark applications across all four Indian patent offices and the trademark registries. On enforcement, we litigate infringement, passing off, trade-dress and copyright disputes, protection of confidential information and domain-name matters. When the asset under threat is a brand or an invention, IP work behaves like dispute resolution, and we run it that way.
Your Brand or Technology Under Threat
Before the Dispute Starts
The corporate advisory practice exists so clients call us before signing, not only after something breaks. We give startups hand-holding through funding rounds up to listing, advise on investment, and draft the commercial contracts, shareholder arrangements and governance policies that decide who carries what risk. Advice from people who spend their days in disputes tends to be sharper about the clauses that later get fought over.
Employment Issues and Escalation
Employment matters sit at the join of documents, advice and litigation. We draft offer letters, employment agreements, manuals, HR and POSH policies, and advise on disciplinary and grievance issues, misconduct, POSH complaints, fraud and workforce restructuring. When things escalate, we handle industrial and employment litigation, crisis and reputational management, and the structuring of ESOPs and employee compensation.
Insolvency: Two Sides of the Table
Insolvency work runs in both directions. As a bankruptcy lawyer team, we act for corporate debtors, financial and operational creditors and resolution professionals before the NCLT, NCLAT, the committee of creditors and the Supreme Court, including in personal insolvency. We advise at the pre-insolvency stage, through the resolution process, and on acquiring stressed assets when that's the route that makes sense.
Choosing Who Handles It
If you're weighing up corporate lawyers in Delhi for a particular matter, the useful question isn't which one calls itself best. It's whether the person you brief is the one who'll argue your case, and whether they'll tell you honestly when your matter isn't one for them. That's the standard we work to.
FAQ's
It depends on the complexity of the dispute and how the parties behave. A clean domestic reference can finish in about a year. A contested international commercial arbitration with several parties and expert evidence can take much longer. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 sets timelines for completing an arbitration, and keeping a matter moving within them is part of the job.
Arbitration gives you privacy, a say in who decides, and awards that are usually easier to enforce across borders than court judgments. That suits many commercial and cross-border disputes. It isn't always right, though. Where you need urgent interim relief, or the other side is likely to stall, court litigation can work better, so we'll tell you which fits your matter.
Often the same counsel is both. One argues your matter in court; the other advises you around it, on contracts, compliance and risk. At the chamber they run together, so the advice you get already accounts for how these things play out when contested.
Yes. Some matters won't wait for a considered start: an injunction to stop money moving, an urgent listing, a reply due in days. Where speed decides the outcome, we can move quickly on interim relief and the immediate filings, then settle into the longer strategy once the pressure's off. If a deadline is already on you, say so in your first line.
Yes. Delhi is the base, and much of the paperwork runs from here, but the work itself is largely national. Our counsel appear across ten High Courts and before tribunals such as the NCLT and NCLAT, so a matter seated in another state is routine rather than an exception. We also act as Indian desk counsel for firms in the UK and Dubai, holding the Indian side of a dispute for clients who are not in the country at all. What matters is where your dispute sits, not where you do.