Mission
To provide clear, practical and timely legal solutions aligned with our clients' commercial objectives, through personal attention and enduring professional relationships.
About
A New Delhi firm, founded and led by Satish K. Rai.
Transactional, regulatory and contentious work, with particular depth in real estate, insolvency and corporate commercial matters.
The firm
SR Legal is a full service law firm headquartered in New Delhi, founded and led by Mr. Satish Rai. The firm advises on transactional, regulatory and contentious matters, with particular depth in real estate and infrastructure, insolvency and bankruptcy, and corporate commercial work.
On the advisory side, the firm handles mergers and acquisitions, compliance audits, opinions on transaction documents, licensing arrangements, technology transfer, and risk analysis of regulatory overlaps for corporate clients. On the contentious side, it represents clients before tribunals, courts and arbitral fora across a broad range of commercial, regulatory and criminal matters.
The firm works closely with architects, financial consultants, tax advisors and technical experts so that its legal advice fits the commercial and technical realities of each matter.
Vision
To be recognised as a full service law firm known for practical judgment, rigour and lasting client relationships.
Approach
SR Legal's approach rests on understanding the client's business and anticipating its legal needs before they become disputes.
The firm's advisory work is built on preventive structuring, regulatory foresight, precise documentation, risk minimisation and readiness for litigation where it cannot be avoided.
Personal attention
Direct involvement in the matters the firm takes up.
Commercial understanding
The legal work is read against the client's business.
Preventive counsel
Needs are anticipated before they become disputes.
Precision in documents
Care in the papers, from the term sheet through to completion.
Integrity
The relationship between client and counsel is fiduciary.
How the work is done
- Founder led, with direct partner involvement in each matter.
- Coverage of the full lifecycle of a project, from advisory and structuring through regulatory compliance to dispute resolution.
- An established insolvency practice across several NCLT and NCLAT benches.
- Advice on complex commercial disputes involving economic offences and white collar crime.
- Integrated working with technical and financial experts.
The firm is instructed by the following kinds of clients. It does not publish client names.
- Developers, landowners, promoters and joint venture partners
- Investors, listed companies and investment banks
- Banks, financial institutions and multilateral agencies
- Government departments and corporations
- Business houses, multinational and domestic corporations, and contractors
- Employers and employees
- Individuals and consumers
Fora
Where the firm practises.
- Supreme Court of India
- High Courts
- National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
- National Company Law Tribunals
- Arbitral tribunals
- Real Estate Regulatory Authorities
- Civil courts
- Competition Commission of India
- District and State Consumer Commissions and the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
- Criminal trial courts and statutory bodies
- Tax fora