Litigation Experience

FoxMandal has a dedicated team of lawyers who are specializing in various field of law like Commercial, Civil, Arbitration, Labour, Consumer, and Intellectual property matter. Each team of lawyers is headed by a Partner who specializes in different field of Litigation. Fox Mandal team of lawyers are representing clients in the Supreme Court, High Court, District forums and various tribunals. With its strategically located offices spread nationwide in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Pune, Fox Mandal ensures a fully integrated and cost effective service.

The litigation team has been profitably exposed to a variety of issues ranging from corporate, civil, employment, product liability, medical negligence, environmental litigation, construction disputes, matrimonial matters, disputes involving contracts and property, IP-related litigation including trade secrets and brand protection on the internet, infrastructure and telecommunications, tax.

Scope of work

The litigation team’s approach is multi-disciplinary where we work in sync with lawyers from other teams within the firm such as intellectual property, corporate issues, tax and environment. The firm strategises advice to the clients providing comprehensive analyses of the issues and efficient litigation management.

Our proactive approach, commercial acumen combined with technical expertise defines our outlook. The firm has a significant litigation practice and it is the emphasis on quality that has contributed significantly in the impeccable reputation that FM has built over the years.
Following is an indicative list of our clients and some of the major work done both in field of litigation and arbitration in recent years:

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Acting for Union Carbide Corporation in relation to matter against them in U.S. Courts.

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Acted for Dow Chemicals Company in relation to a claim against them.

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Acted for Lucent Technologies in relation to a claim filed against them in U.S. Courts.  

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Acting for Giro Bank in relation to their proceedings before the Adjudicating Authority as well as the Supreme Court of India.

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Acted for a copyright infringement matters in High Court and Supreme Court of India.

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Acting for passing off of trade marks of Indian/foreign several companies including a German Company, August Krempel Sohne GmbH.

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Acting for Deutsche Bank in relation to their several matters.

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Acted for Southern Energy Asia Pacific in relation to their 3600 MW Power Project in Orissa

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Advising and representing Star India (Pvt.) Ltd. Regarding their disputes falling within the rubric of the TDSAT, High Court and the Supreme Court.

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Handling various Banks and Financial Institutions in Debt Recovery Tribunal like the Indian Renewal Energy Development Agency (IREDA), IFCI, IDBI, IIBI, Bank of Rajasthan, Rural Electrification Corporation, Habib Bank and the Deutsche Bank.

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Acted for Chase Manhattan Bank in relation to their recovery proceedings.

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Acted for Sobati Trading in relation to their recovery matters.

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Represented Indian Tea Association in their dispute with the State Government with regard to Power Tariff.

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Acting for Leica Geo Systems in relation to a dispute over a copyright issue of software product.

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Acting for Shilpi Communication Ltd. in relation to their dispute with Rosenberg, Germany with regard to transfer of shares.

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Acting for the following companies in relation to litigation and business advisory work : 

Name of the CompanyName of the Company
1.   Artemis Hospital35. Nisho Iwai
2.  Axa Insurance Singapore36. Okura
3.  Bell Granito37. Oriental Insurance
4.  Blackberry38. Panalpina
5.  British Steel PLC39. PARCUK
6.  Cadence Design System Inc.40. Park Hotel
7.  Coal India and its subsidiaries41. Pegasus Asset Reconstruction Pvt. Ltd.
8.  Daimler Chrysler42. Plan Man Management
9.  Delliote & Touche43. Polar Industries, 
10. Dragon Investment Singapore44. Pressman Advertising
11.  Dunlop45. Price Water Coopers
12. Enter Prise Advertising46. Prima Tel
13. GAIL, ONGC47. Protivity
14. Gulf Glass Manufacturers Ltd.48. Resort Condominium India (RCI)
15. HCL49. Revertex, Malaysia
16. ICICI50. Royal Sundaram
17. Indian Tobacco (ITC)51. Salvation Army
18. Invensys52. Samsung Electronics
19. ITC Bhadrachalam53. Sangli Bank
20. J.K. Industries54. SEAMEC (South East Asia Marine Engineering & Construction Ltd.)
21. JMA Industries55. Shanghai Belling
22. Kirloskar56. Sinclairs Hotels
23. Kleen Flo Tumbler Canada57. Skoda Auto India Pvt. Ltd.
24. Klose Chemie Germany58. Slaughter and May
25. Kuwait Airways59. Subros
26. Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation60. Sulfindo
27. Mahindra Export61. Tanyard Investment
28. Martin Burn62. Tata AIG
29. Mitsubishi Bank63. Tyco and its Group Companies
30. Mitsubishi Corporation64. Uni Pektin
31. Modi Revlon65. United Chemical Products PLC
32. National Jute Manufactures66. Veyance Rubber
33. Nautilius Shipping Singapore67. Win Medicare Ltd.
34. Nicholas Piramal

Fox Mandal Litigation team also boasts of individual Client like:

NamesNames
• Mr. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman News Corp• Mr. S.B. Ganguly, Former Chairman of Exide Industries
• Mr. T.V. Ramanathan, Chairman of Exide Industries• Chairman of TTL Industries
• Mr. U.K. Modi, Chairman of Modi Revlon• Mr. Rob Marshall, Country Manager of Premier Oil
• Barbara Bradford Taylor• R.S. Lodha

We have a specialised consumer law team headed by a Partner-in-charge. Some of the key consumer clients of the firm are:

NamesNames
• Artemis Hospital, a health care (venture launched
  by the promoter of Apollo Tyres)
• Panalpina
• Exide Industries• Polar Industries
• Giro Bank now Alliance and Leicester• Resort Condominium India (RCI)
• Kuwait Airways• STAR TV
• Modi Mundi Pharma• Tyco
• Modi Revlon• Win Medicare
• Modi Senator

Fox Mandal has a special team headed by a Partner for claims (both Civil and Criminal in nature) in relation to defamation and damages. Some of the important Clients/matters dealt by the team with regard to defamation matters are:

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Acting for India International Polytechnic against a daily named Times of India, having one of the highest circulation in India.

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Defending a suit of libel in Delhi High Court for Murad Ali Baig, Auto Expert

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Acting in a Criminal matter in Gauhati High Court involving Mr. Rob Marshall, Country Manager of Premier Oil

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Acting in various Civil and Criminal matters for Aaj Kal newspaper, one of the largest linguistic newspaper.

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Acting in Litigation matters for Times of India, one of the leading English Daily News paper in India.

We have been advising various other publications, the names of which have been withheld due to Client confidentiality.

Fox Mandal has successfully advised and represented high profile celebrities, both national and international, from various walks of life in defamation and copyright related matters.

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Pre publication advise rendered to Ashok Banker (Author) on various aspects including option agreements for literary property, vetting of various contracts, such as non- disclosure agreements.

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Assisting Sophie Choudry (celebrity) in sending a notice of defamation in relation to an article published in a newspaper.

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Assisting Wyder (Author) the in litigation relating to the book written by her.

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Advised and represented Barbara Taylor Bradford (Author) in litigation against Sahara T.V. with respect to the daily soap, ‘Karisma- Women of Substance’.

Please note that, we would not be able to disclose the information related to few of our clients due to client confidentiality.

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