Sagus Legal

Sagus Legal is a full-service law firm delivering comprehensive legal advisory and advocacy services. The Firm’s team collectively brings over eight decades of industry experience across diverse sectors. Sagus Legal is adept at assisting businesses ranging from start-ups to large corporate conglomerates, including Navratna Public Sector Undertakings, in navigating India’s complex legal and regulatory landscape. The Firm is distinguished for its ability to advise on high-stakes, time-sensitive public and private transactions, as well as matters involving both simple and highly complex disputes.

Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Projects, Infrastructure

Construction

Energy

Restructuring and Insolvency

General Corporate and Investments

Mergers and Acquisitions

Banking and Project Finance

Real Estate

E-Commerce, Technology and Privacy

Dispute Resolution

Sagus Legal’s Commercial Litigation practice is recognised for delivering high-quality advisory and litigation services efficiently and cost-effectively. The Firm represents clients in a wide range of high-value arbitration matters, supporting entities from emerging businesses to some of India’s largest corporate groups and Navratna PSUs. Its lawyers possess deep expertise in navigating India’s intricate legal and compliance frameworks.

The Firm has substantial experience handling complex arbitration matters and related court proceedings across jurisdictions, including proceedings before various lower courts, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India. The team is well versed in both Indian and foreign institutional and ad hoc arbitration, as well as other ADR mechanisms. With over six decades of combined commercial dispute resolution experience, the Firm retains a clear competitive advantage through its strength in pre-dispute strategy, policy formulation and implementation, project appraisal for statutory compliance, and regulatory risk management.

Projects, Infrastructure, Construction, and Energy Practice

Sagus Legal has established itself as a market-leading practice in Projects, Infrastructure, Construction, and Energy. In the energy sector, the Firm regularly advises and represents a wide spectrum of stakeholders, including governmental bodies, PSUs, financial institutions, EPC contractors, consultants, utilities, and major private sector energy companies. Its work spans the full breadth of the energy value chain, including generation, distribution, transmission, and trading.

The Firm also has significant experience representing clients before regulatory authorities across India and before specialised tribunals and constitutional courts in sectorally important matters.

In its Infrastructure and Oil & Gas practice, Sagus Legal has successfully acted on large-scale greenfield and brownfield projects for major industry participants. The Firm advises clients on project development, project finance, regulatory issues, EPC contracts, PPAs, PPP structures, policy matters, and a broad suite of related transactions. Its lawyers routinely handle complex commercial disputes, having set ground-breaking precedents in this domain. Notably, the Firm holds the rare distinction of advising and representing a client in the sale and privatisation of a distribution company in India.

Restructuring and Insolvency

The Firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice is characterised by strategic, commercially oriented advice across the spectrum of insolvency, stressed assets, and special situations. Sagus Legal has built a strong reputation for advising corporate debtors, promoter groups, and distressed businesses, as well as representing financial and operational creditors, asset reconstruction companies, and institutional investors in matters under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). The Firm also assists stakeholders in restructurings and out-of-court settlements.

Significantly, one of the earliest successful resolution plans for large corporates identified by the Reserve Bank of India was drafted by the Firm’s Managing Partner, Ms Shruti Kanodia. Her work exemplifies the Firm’s depth of expertise in insolvency law. She has been recognised by Benchmark Litigation as one of the Top 100 Women in Litigation in Asia-Pacific for 2025 and listed as a Litigation Star in Insolvency in India for 2025.

The Firm is active before the NCLT benches in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Bangalore and elsewhere, as well as before the NCLAT, DRT, DRAT, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India. The team is currently advising on several landmark insolvency matters, including group insolvency, Section 66 personal liability defences, and jurisdictional challenges, alongside guiding clients through sensitive settlements to preserve value and business continuity. Its experience covers debt settlements, asset transfers, additional financing, distressed acquisitions, refinancing, distressed debt trading, and investment in stressed assets.

General Corporate and Mergers &Acquisitions

Sagus Legal’s General Corporate and M&A practice has extensive experience in facilitating business entry and exit strategies in India, including advisory on foreign exchange and securities laws. With a strong track record in public and private mergers and acquisitions, internal restructurings, and joint venture arrangements, the Firm is well placed to guide clients through the complexities of India’s corporate framework.

The team regularly advises on business restructurings, schemes of arrangement, acquisitions, IP licensing, slump sales, private equity and venture capital transactions. The practice also offers substantial expertise in employment law, including senior management contracts and the implementation of stock option schemes for both listed and private companies. Additionally, the team provides comprehensive support in establishing offices, industrial facilities, warehouses, commercial properties, and hospitality projects.

Over the past year, the Firm has experienced marked growth in its M&A practice, securing new mandates in the healthcare, fintech, and real estate sectors. The team has delivered bespoke solutions tailored to the needs of diverse clients across industries such as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, energy, infrastructure, automotive, financial services, and technology. The practice has also expanded in size, enhancing its capabilities in energy, metals, real estate, fintech, labour laws, and general corporate advisory.

Banking and Project Finance

The Firm’s Banking and Project Finance practice has extensive experience advising on high-value transactions. Sagus Legal regularly represents banks, financial institutions, NBFCs, debt funds, and corporates in project finance engagements. The Firm also advises on compliance under various Reserve Bank of India frameworks, including external commercial borrowings, refinancing, debt restructuring, and take-out financing. In addition to regular term loans and working capital facilities, the team has significant expertise in securitisation, debt listings, distressed debt restructuring, project finance, and acquisition financing. Its services include structuring, drafting, negotiating, and vetting financing and security documentation.

The Firm has acted for both lenders and borrowers on long-term finance arrangements, renegotiation of trust structures, regulatory changes affecting current accounts, security documentation, and private placement of debt securities. Its project finance experience spans financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, power, pharmaceuticals, heavy industry, and trading sectors.

Real Estate

Sagus Legal’s Real Estate practice offers end-to-end advisory services on real estate investments, development, acquisitions, leasing, and project structuring across commercial, industrial, warehousing, and hospitality segments. The team serves developers, corporates, office space providers, aggregators, and other stakeholders with strategic regulatory, transactional, and dispute-related support. The Firm is actively expanding its real estate practice to meet evolving client needs in sectors such as renewable energy, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, and commercial leasing. The team regularly advises on acquisitions, leasing structures, development arrangements, and land procurement for solar, wind, hybrid, and captive power projects. It also advises on industrial and commercial leasing, built-to-suit developments, warehousing, and land structuring for factories and logistics hubs.

With strong cross-practice expertise in M&A, Projects, and General Corporate, the Firm is well positioned to manage land and regulatory risks across the entire transaction lifecycle. Sagus Legal’s growing presence in energy-linked land structuring and multi-jurisdictional property matters makes it a strong contender for recognition within the Real Estate category this year.

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