Areas Of Practice
At Alba Law Offices, we offer a comprehensive range of legal services tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients. Practice areas include arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, media and entertainment, start-up advisory, internet laws, employment and labourissues,regulatoryapprovalsandcompliances,economicoffencesadvisory, etc.
Real Estate and Conveyancing
Our Real Estate practice leverages our expertise and experience to provide appropriate legal advice on immovable property acquisition and transfer by conducting comprehensive title searches and due diligence across most states in India. This includes structuring and drafting conveyance documents, as well as advising developers and promoters on compliance on all relevant aspects. Our team advises developers, investors, and financing institutions on RERA compliances across different states in India. We work closely with clients to secure statutory permissions and approvals, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.
Civil and Criminal Litigation
Our team, comprising experienced litigators, has been representing clients at various forums and has extensive experience handling a wide range of civil and criminal disputes including commercial, corporate, regulatory disputes, RERA matters, consumer cases and economic offences. Our clients come from diverse sectors including Real Estate, Infrastructure, Consumer Goods, Education, Media and Entertainment, Telecom etc. Our lawyers regularly appear for clients before various forums, including the District Courts, High Courts, National Company Law Tribunal, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, National and State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions. Our team also has extensive experience of handling Prerogative Writ Petitions before the Supreme Court and High Courts, filing Civil Suits and Petitions at all levels of Courts and other forums, and handling Appeals before the Supreme Court of India and High Courts. With vast experience and expertise across different legal verticals, we assist in effective resolution of client’s issues across all locations.
Intellectual Property Rights
Our Intellectual Property Rights practice utilises its multidisciplinary expertise to manage requirements from trademark search to trademark registration in India and abroad. This is facilitated through our collaboration with various foreign attorneys is all major jurisdictions. We also assist our clients in opposition proceedings before the Trade Marks Registry, and in initiating and litigating infringement proceedings in the courts. Our practice includes regular journal watch services, assistance with trademark renewals, and various post-registration services. We provide comprehensive portfolio management for our clients’ intellectual property rights and assist them with assignments, licencing, franchising, and other transfers of their intellectual property to increase and preserve their goodwill. Our practice also extends to copyrights and designs registration, providing litigation services against any infringement, and executing assignments and licencing of these copyrights and designs, among other services. Coupled with robust industry knowledge and up-to-date legal expertise, our team guides and advises clients on how their IP interests can be effectively enforced.
Arbitration and Alternate Dispute Resolution
We offer extensive assistance throughout the arbitration process. This includes drafting arbitration clauses in contracts advising on when to initiate arbitration, and representing clients from the start of proceedings to the final hearing. We also excel in enforcing arbitral awards and challenging them when necessary. Furthermore, we adeptly represent clients in pre-litigation mediation and conciliation meetings.
Commercial Contracts
We offer legal advice to companies across diverse sectors on their day-to-day corporate and commercial matters, encompassing contract law, company law, labour laws and more. Our team is recognised for a comprehensive and complete range of services, essential for setting up and operating a business in India. This includes advising on the establishment of the business entity, business restructuring, statutory and regulatory compliances, and exit options. Our team regularly assists in reviewing, drafting, negotiating and executing transaction documents such as confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements, non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements, licence agreements, loan agreements, business transfer agreements, and more.
Employment and Labour
Our team excels in advising clients on the multitude of regulations that companies must comply with when operating in India. We provide regular advice on organisational structuring, employment laws, acquisitions, outsourcing, data protection, international workforce relations, litigation risk management, and ethical corporate governance. Our goal is to guide clients towards streamlined workforce management that adheres to legal standards and corporate ethics.
We advise and update our clients on laws about television, film, digital media (including internet and gaming laws), music, live entertainment, advertising, performing arts, e-commerce and social media. We also aid our clients in services encompassing the entire data lifecycle and software development. This involves facilitating requirements such as effective IP management, compliances, training for risk management teams, and preparing well-defined software development agreements and privacy policies.
Internet Laws
Start-up Advisory
We assist in providing legal, structural and regulatory advisory services specifically catering to entrepreneurs and startups to guide them through all phases of their growth process. This includes incorporation of companies structuring of transactions, compliances, etc. We also facilitate them in protecting and expanding their intellectual property rights.
We represent clients across the wide spectrum of the media and entertainment industry, handling various agreements such as television, internet, and digital media content, influencers management, brand endorsements, celebrity endorsements, publishing, and other related contracts. Additionally, we assist clients in navigating the evolving regulations and guidelines that govern the media and entertainment sectors.