Full-service practice
Litigation, advocacy, corporate and commercial law, advisory services and dispute resolution under one roof.
Advocates & Consultants · Vadodara, Gujarat
A Legacy of Advocacy. A Tradition of Legal Excellence.
P.T. Patel Associates is a full-service law firm founded by Barrister P.T. Patel, BVC, Lincoln’s Inn, London. More than four decades on, it is a multidisciplinary practice built on litigation, advocacy, corporate and commercial law, advisory work and dispute resolution.
- Gujarat High Court
- Pan-India Practice
- International Outlook
42+
Years of
continuous practice
continuous practice
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Origins
London
Barrister P.T. Patel completes his legal training at Lincoln’s Inn (BVC).
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Founded
Gujarat
He returns to India and establishes the practice, more than 42 years ago.
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Growth
A broad-based practice
Advocacy widens into corporate, commercial, advisory and dispute resolution work.
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Generations
Senior and next
Senior practitioners alongside a next generation in transactional and emerging law.
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Today
Pan-India, international
A pan-India practice, an international outlook, and four foreign missions.
The firm · Our legacy
Built on advocacy, discipline and legal scholarship.
P.T. Patel Associates traces its origins to Barrister P.T. Patel, BVC, Lincoln’s Inn, London, who returned to India after his legal training and established the practice more than 42 years ago. What began as a practice founded upon advocacy, professional discipline and legal scholarship has evolved into a broad-based legal institution.
From its roots in Gujarat, the firm operates on a pan-India basis, with an international-facing practice involving the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
The firm advises and represents individuals, companies, entrepreneurs, institutions, financial organisations, healthcare establishments, manufacturers and businesses across a wide spectrum of legal matters — with deep legal knowledge, rigorous preparation, strategic advocacy and practical advice aligned to the client’s objectives.
The firm currently represents 62 companies globally, across finance, banking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, software, shipping and taxation.
Pan-India presence
Advising and representing clients across jurisdictions, and coordinating matters before courts, tribunals, authorities and regulators throughout India.
International outlook
Cross-border matters involving the USA, UK, Australia and UAE, and empanelment with four foreign diplomatic missions in India.
Generations of practice
Senior practitioners continue to handle complex litigation and advisory matters, while the next generation contributes to corporate, commercial, regulatory and emerging areas of law.
The firm at a glance
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Years in practice
Founded by Barrister P.T. Patel
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Companies represented
Globally, across key industries
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Sectors served
Automotive to agriculture
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Foreign missions
Empanelled in India
Practice areas
Courtroom advocacy and corporate counsel, together.
Choose an area to see the full scope of the firm’s work — from pre-litigation strategy through trial, appeal and execution, and across the corporate lifecycle.
Litigation & Disputes
Corporate & Transactions
Property & Projects
Specialist & Sector
Litigation & Disputes
Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Extensive experience in civil and commercial litigation, representing clients from pre-litigation strategy through trial, appeal and execution.
- Civil and commercial suits
- Recovery and money claims
- Breach of contract and specific performance
- Injunctions, declarations and interim relief
- Property, land, possession and eviction disputes
- Partnership, shareholder and joint-venture disputes
- Construction and infrastructure disputes
- Banking, finance and insurance disputes
- Professional liability and negligence
- Consumer disputes
- Employment and service disputes
- Trust, succession and inheritance disputes
- Probate and testamentary matters
- Family and matrimonial disputes
- Partition and execution proceedings
- Appeals, revisions, reviews and writ-related matters
- Legal notices, settlement negotiations, mediation and alternative dispute resolution
Litigation & Disputes
Commercial Litigation
- Commercial contracts and business disputes
- Share purchase and shareholder agreements
- Joint ventures and franchise arrangements
- Distribution, dealership and supply arrangements
- Technology and service agreements
- Financing, guarantees and indemnities
- Corporate and M&A disputes
- Insolvency-related disputes
- Commercial fraud and misrepresentation
- Confidentiality, restrictive covenant and IP disputes
Litigation & Disputes
Criminal Law & White-Collar Crime
A comprehensive criminal law practice covering investigation, pre-trial proceedings, trial, appellate proceedings and related constitutional remedies.
- Criminal complaints and FIR-related matters
- Police investigation and remand proceedings
- Anticipatory and regular bail
- Quashing of FIRs and criminal proceedings
- Criminal trials, appeals and revisions
- Economic offences and financial crimes
- Fraud, cheating and criminal breach of trust
- Forgery and document-related offences
- Cybercrime
- Corporate fraud and white-collar crime
- Money-laundering related matters
- Economic Offences Wing proceedings
- Serious Fraud Investigation Office-related matters
- Enforcement Directorate-related matters
- Regulatory prosecutions and investigations
- Directors’ and officers’ liability
- Negotiable Instruments Act and cheque dishonour matters
- Criminal defamation
- Assistance in responding to summons, notices and investigations
Litigation & Disputes
Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Domestic arbitration
- International commercial arbitration
- Appointment of arbitrators
- Interim measures
- Sections 9, 11, 17, 34 and 37 proceedings
- Enforcement of arbitral awards
- Conciliation and mediation
- Commercial settlement negotiations
Litigation & Disputes
Constitutional & Administrative Law
- Writ petitions
- Constitutional remedies
- Judicial review
- Administrative decisions
- Government and statutory authorities
- Regulatory proceedings
- Natural justice
- Government contracts
- Public law disputes
Litigation & Disputes
Consumer Law
- Deficiency in services
- Product liability
- Consumer contracts
- Medical and healthcare services
- Banking and insurance
- Real estate and e-commerce disputes
- Consumer claims, appeals and revisions
Litigation & Disputes
Family, Matrimonial & Personal Law
- Divorce and mutual consent divorce
- Contested matrimonial proceedings
- Maintenance
- Child custody and guardianship
- Domestic disputes
- Judicial separation
- Restitution of conjugal rights
- Adoption
- Family settlements
- Partition
- Succession, wills and probate
- Inheritance disputes
Corporate & Transactions
Corporate & Company Law
One of the firm’s principal areas of practice. Legal services throughout the corporate lifecycle, from incorporation and structuring through investment, expansion, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, disputes and exit.
Incorporation & corporate structuring
- Company incorporation
- Private and public companies
- Section 8 companies
- LLPs
- Subsidiaries and holding companies
- Joint ventures and special purpose vehicles
- Corporate restructuring and reorganisation
- Corporate succession planning
Corporate governance
- Board and shareholder governance
- Board and general meetings
- Directors’ duties and liabilities
- Independent directors and key managerial personnel
- Related-party transactions
- Conflict-of-interest matters
- Corporate compliance
- Statutory registers and records
- Corporate resolutions
- Shareholder and minority shareholder rights
Companies Act practice
- Share capital and transfer/transmission of shares
- Increase/reduction of capital
- Buy-back, rights issues, private placement and preferential allotment
- Bonus issues and further issue of shares
- Debentures and deposits
- Loans and investments
- Charges
- Directors and board proceedings
- Related-party transactions
- Oppression and mismanagement
- Compromises, arrangements, mergers and amalgamations
- Demergers and restructuring
- Corporate insolvency and winding-up
- Striking off and restoration
- Corporate investigations
Mergers & acquisitions
- Legal due diligence
- Acquisition structuring
- Share purchase and business transfers
- Asset acquisitions and slump sales
- Mergers, amalgamations and demergers
- Joint ventures and strategic investments
- Shareholder arrangements
- Regulatory approvals and post-closing matters
Private equity & venture capital
- Investment structuring
- Term sheets
- Share subscription and shareholders’ agreements
- Investor rights and reserved matters
- Anti-dilution
- Drag-along and tag-along rights
- Founder arrangements
- ESOP structures
- Exit and secondary transactions
Corporate transactions
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Franchise and distribution arrangements
- Licensing and technology transactions
- Outsourcing and supply agreements
- Manufacturing arrangements
- Corporate guarantees and indemnities
- Escrow and security arrangements
Corporate & Transactions
NCLT, NCLAT & Insolvency
- Corporate insolvency resolution
- Sections 7, 9 and 10 proceedings
- Financial and operational creditor matters
- Committee of Creditors matters
- Resolution plans and liquidation
- Avoidance, preferential, undervalued and fraudulent transactions
- Personal guarantor proceedings
- NCLT and NCLAT litigation
- Oppression and mismanagement
- Winding-up and restoration proceedings
Corporate & Transactions
Banking & Finance
- Loan and financing documentation
- Security documentation
- Mortgages, hypothecation and pledge
- Corporate and personal guarantees
- Letters of credit and bank guarantees
- Debt restructuring
- Recovery proceedings
- SARFAESI
- DRT and DRAT proceedings
- Banking disputes and financial fraud
Corporate & Transactions
Competition & Regulatory Law
- Competition law
- Regulatory compliance
- Market practices
- Sector-specific regulation
- Government permissions and licences
- Regulatory investigations
Corporate & Transactions
Insurance
- Insurance contracts and claims
- Coverage disputes
- Policy interpretation
- Insurance litigation
- Regulatory issues
- Recovery and subrogation
Property & Projects
Real Estate, Land & Property
- Property acquisition and title investigation
- Sale and purchase
- Development and joint-development agreements
- Leases and leave & licence
- Conveyancing
- Property disputes and possession
- Tenancy and encroachment
- RERA
- Town planning and land acquisition
- NA permissions and TP schemes
- Development regulations and construction disputes
Property & Projects
Infrastructure, Construction & Projects
- EPC and construction contracts
- Infrastructure projects
- Development and procurement
- Government contracts
- PPP projects
- Project financing
- Construction disputes
- Contractor disputes
- Delay and variation claims
- Arbitration
Specialist & Sector
Taxation, GST & Customs
- Income tax
- GST
- Customs
- Legacy excise and service tax matters
- Assessments and appeals
- Notices and investigations
- Search and seizure-related proceedings
- Input tax credit
- Tax recovery
- Customs disputes
- Import/export taxation
Specialist & Sector
Intellectual Property
- Trade marks
- Copyright
- Patents
- Designs
- Trade secrets
- Brand protection
- IP licensing and assignment
- IP due diligence
- Infringement and passing off
- Domain name disputes
- Software and technology IP
Specialist & Sector
Technology, IT & Cyber Law
- IT and software contracts
- SaaS agreements
- Technology licensing
- Data protection and privacy
- Cybersecurity and cybercrime
- E-commerce
- Technology disputes
- Digital IP
- IT outsourcing and cloud arrangements
Specialist & Sector
Employment & Labour Law
- Employment and executive agreements
- HR policies
- Termination and disciplinary proceedings
- Employment disputes
- Industrial disputes and labour litigation
- Employee benefits
- Confidentiality and non-solicitation
- Workplace compliance
Specialist & Sector
Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
- Healthcare contracts
- Hospital agreements
- Medical disputes
- Hospital management and compliance
- Pharmaceutical contracts and licensing
- Medical negligence
- Healthcare litigation
- Employment and regulatory matters
Specialist & Sector
Automotive, Manufacturing & Engineering
- Automotive manufacturing
- Engineering and industrial supply
- Vendor, distribution and dealership agreements
- Manufacturing contracts
- Technology licensing
- Joint ventures
- Commercial disputes
- Product liability
- Industrial property
Sectoral experience
- Automotive
- Banking & Finance
- Healthcare
- Pharmaceuticals
- Technology & IT
- Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Infrastructure
- Real Estate
- Construction
- Energy
- Chemicals
- Software
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Logistics
- Education
- Hospitality
- Media & Entertainment
- Agriculture
- Food & Agriculture
- International Business
Our people
A continuing tradition, across generations.
Founder
Barrister P.T. Patel
BVC · Lincoln’s Inn, London
Barrister P.T. Patel established the practice after returning to India from London. His vision of building a serious, professionally driven legal practice continues to form the foundation of the firm.
Jaydeep Patel
Managing Partner
B.Sc. · LL.B.
Extensive experience in litigation, advisory and strategic legal practice.
Sandip Patel
Senior Partner
B.Com. · LL.B.
Extensive involvement in litigation, corporate and commercial practice.
Rahul Patel
Senior Partner
B.A. · LL.B.
Practising across corporate, commercial, cross-border, transactional and dispute-related matters.
Vedang Patel
Associate Partner
B.A. · LL.B. · LL.M.
Part of the firm’s next generation of practitioners, contributing to advisory, corporate and contentious matters.
International practice
Pan-India in practice, international in outlook.
P.T. Patel Associates has an international-facing practice extending beyond India. In addition to its pan-India practice, the firm acts in legal and commercial matters involving the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United Arab Emirates — coordinating with overseas counsel where a matter requires it.
- Cross-border commercial transactions
- International contracts and agreements
- Corporate and business structuring
- Foreign investment and India-entry matters
- International M&A and joint ventures
- Cross-border disputes
- International arbitration
- Regulatory and compliance matters
- Business establishment and expansion
- Indian and overseas commercial arrangements
- International legal due diligence
- Coordination with overseas counsel
- Cross-border succession and private-client matters
International empanelment
The firm is empanelled with four foreign diplomatic missions in India:
- High Commission of Canada
- High Commission of Australia
- Italian diplomatic mission
- High Commission of the United Kingdom
Matters involving
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- United Arab Emirates
From the vision of Barrister P.T. Patel, BVC, Lincoln’s Inn, London, to the continuing practice of experienced senior advocates and the next generation of lawyers — a continuing legal tradition built over more than four decades. Courtroom advocacy, corporate counsel, commercial understanding and specialised legal expertise, across India and in relation to international matters.
P.T. Patel Associates — Advocates & Consultants
- Gujarat High Court
- Pan-India Practice
- International Outlook
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