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Provided by Namrata Kolar
Namrata Kolar
Partner (Head–Real Estate)
Real Estate and Disputes
Namrata is the Head of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Real Estate Practice. She is a recognised leader in Real Estate Law with over 24 years of experience. While Namrata specialises in real estate transactions, she has a varied experience over other practice areas like dispute resolution and general corporate advisory including employment laws.
She currently heads a team of 41 lawyers including 8 Real Estate Partners across various offices of the firm.
Namrata has advised Indian and overseas real estate funds, developers, MNCs real estate investors, lenders, borrowers, and financial institutions.
Namrata specialises in acquisition and financing of various real estate projects, be it residential/commercial/warehouses/ townships/renewable energy projects and development of special economic zones. She is considered an expert in drafting and negotiating retail and commercial leases, especially for malls, built to suit premises and data centres and corporate campuses. She regularly advises on all aspects of real estate transactions including title due diligence, issuance of title opinions, acquiring property by way of conveyance, lease or joint development models, mortgages, drafting and negotiating commercial leases. In addition, she has also represented and acted for clients in transactions involving financing of real estate sector (both private equity and debt financing), including REITs.
Namrata has significant experiences with construction contracts, development management agreement, fit out agreements and other project related documentation.
In the area of dispute resolution, Namrata has considerable experience in representing clients before the various High Courts, Tribunals, Company Law Board, NCLT, Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission and other fora. She specialises in corporate disputes, court-based Mergers & Amalgamations and Real Estate disputes.
Namrata has also been actively involved in a number of union related matters, appearances before High Courts, Industrial Tribunals and in conciliation proceedings before labour authorities in various employment-related disputes under legislations such as the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
• Advocate & Solicitor; Bar Council of Karnataka, India
• Qualified as Solicitor, England & Wales
Recognised as a “Leading Partner” for the year 2024 & 2023 and “Recommended Lawyer” for Real Estate and Construction practice by Legal500 for the year 2021- 2022.
by Legal500
Recognised as an “A- List Lawyer” for the year 2023- 2025
by IBLJ
been recognised as a “Prominent Practitioner” in the 2019 Rankings, “Recognised Lawyer” for the year 2020 and consistently ranked as “Band 2” for the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025
by Chambers and Partners
Recognised as “Distinguished Practitioner” for Real Estate practice area for the year 2022-2024.
by Asialaw
Recognised and ranked as a ‘Leading Lawyer’, 2022- 2024 for Real Estate.
at Legal Era Rankings
B.A. LLB., National Law School of India, Bengaluru, India, 1999
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She is brilliant on big-picture problem solving and has always helped us find a solution.
She has good resources with in-depth knowledge of industry and legal issues.
She is brilliant on big-picture problem solving and has always helped us find a solution.
She has good resources with in-depth knowledge of industry and legal issues.