Deven Dwarakadas & Partners

Services

Accountancy and Book Keeping

Advertising

Advice

Alternate Disputes Resolution

Animation

Arbitration

Banking

Business registration

Charity

Commercial Documentation

Commercial Litigation

Commodities

Corporate Compliances

Corporate Restructuring

Criminal Law and Practice

Custodianship

Customs and Cross Border Trade

Debt Recovery

Direct taxes

Employment Laws

Entertainment

Environment

Escrow Services

Family and Divorce

Financial Laws

Food and Drug Laws

Foreign Investment

Forensic Investigation

Franchising

GST

Hospitality

Human Resources

Immigration

Incorporation and registration of Entities

Indirect Taxes

Information Technology

Infrastructure

Insurance

Intellectual Property

Land Revenue and Zoning

Litigation

Logistics

Mediation

Merger and Acquisition

Mines and Minerals

Personal Loans

Personal Grooming

Petroleum and Gas

Projects

Public Relationships

Real Estate, Regulations and Transactions

Redevelopment and Development of Land and Building

Regulatory Issues

Road, Rail and Multinational Transport

Sales and Marketing

School and Education

Securities

Securitisation

Serious fraud and Economic Offences

Shipping

Tenancy, Lease and alternative uses

Testamentary

Trust

Weights and Measures

Court Presence

Supreme Court	Economic Offence Wing (EOW)
High Court	Court Commission
National Company Law Tribunal	Charity Commissioner
Metropolitan Magistrate Court	Competent Authority
Court of Commercial Causes	Collector
Consumer Forum	Housing and Area Development
Competition Commission	Rent and Tenancy
District Court	Land Acquisition
Labour Court	Real Estate Regulators (RERA)
Motor Accidents Tribunal	Debt Recovery Tribunal
Green Tribunal	Sessions Court
Customs, Central Excise, Sales Tax and Service Tax Tribunal	Co-Operative Court
Revenue Court	RTI Commissioner
Arbitral Tribunal	Income Tax Tribunal
Criminal Court	Talathi Mamlatdar, SDO, CSO
Enforcement Directorate	Electricity Commission
MPID Bench	Appeal Benches
SEBI/SAT	Quasi Judicial Commissions, Tribunals, Regulators
Small Causes Court	RERA

15+ Growing years

11

Advocates/Counsels

5

Partners

5

Interns

5

Support Staff

3

Secretary

6

Field Staff

2

Paralegals

6

Offcounsel

The Beginning

Mr. Dwarkadas has been in practice since 1992. He earlier interned with tax counsel the late Mr. Dilip Dwarkadas. He joined M/s. Kanga & Company, Advocates and Solicitors in the year 1990 and in 1991 was accepted as an article clerk to work under Mr. Shailesh S. Vaidya, Partner of M/s. Kanga and Company. In 1994 he joined a firm called M/s. Desai, Bergis and Chinoy which later on became M/s. Udwadia, Udeshi and Berjis where he was invited to be a partner in the year 1999. In 2003 he joined M/s. J. Sagar Associates as an “Of Counsel” and which position he held till 2005. In the interim in 2004 he formed his own firm namely M/s. Deven Dwarkadas and Partner. The firm has grown from a sole proprietorship and with two lawyers, one trainee and three support staff to five partners, ten lawyers, five trainees and seven support staff plus three of counsels and six free lancing personnel.

The practice focus includes civil and criminal litigations, arbitrations, real estate transactions, corporate laws, securities and commodity laws, regulatory issues, cross border transactions, infrastructure, debt consumer laws, environment, shipping, logistics, franchising, intellectual property rights and franchising.

Mr. Dwarkadas’s firm work culture revalues around client servicing and “the buck stops here” Responsibility and pragmatism is our belief.

MEMBER

Indian Council of Arbitration
Bombay Management Association
Registered Patent & Trademark Attorney
Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa

TRUSTSHIP

Dwarkadas Dharmasey Charitable Trust
Hari Krupa Trust
Bombay Halai Bhatia Mahajan Trust

COMMITTEES

P J Hindu Gymkhana Legal Committee
The Malabar Hill Club Disciplinary Committee

ADVISORY

Thirumalai Trust
Fazlani L’Academie Globale
S M Batha Education Trust, Panchghani Zoroastrian League;
Jamnabai Narsee School, Global Pathways (IB)
SLN Leaning Network

PHILANTHROPY

Joshi Pushkara Hirji Valji Trust