Darryl is an Indian attorney having 9 years of experience in transaction & regulatory advisory, mergers & acquisitions, corporate law, securities & capital markets, contract drafting in India and the UAE. He advises on corporate transactions, general and commercial contracts, and issues related to start-ups, trade laws, banking & finance sector, and Intellectual Property. He has also worked on contract abstraction and management.
A part time 2 years course completed during my employment. I specialized in Business Laws.
This is a graduate degree to qualify as a legal practitioner in India
Completed the Company Secretaries Course (the Indian equivalent of ICSA UK) along with my law.
This is an undergraduate degree in management studies. I selected finance as my subjects and secured a first class with distinction.
Non-litigation: contract and documentation drafting and advisory, mergers & acquisitions, corporate structuring and transaction advisory, advising startups, contract abstraction and management, real-estate advisory and drafting, and providing consultation on regulatory issues. Advising and on successions matters and wills.
Some key assignments handled:
- drafting incorporation related documents like partnership deeds, shareholder's agreement, share subscription agreements, joint-venture agreements, founder's agreements.
- drafting commercial agreements like vendor agreements, master service agreements, SAAS agreements, software licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, reseller's agreements for IT/ITES/KPOs/BPOs in India, and terms and conditions for e-commerce websites / apps.
-drafting property related documents and agreements, wills, and trust agreements.
Litigation: arbitration, commercial litigation, intellectual property related matters, general civil litigation before the High Court, NCLT, various tribunals and courts. Pre-litigation advisory and white collar criminal litigation and family law related matters.
Some key assignments handled:
-Handled matters in the NCLT both for respondents and petitioners.
-Handled property related litigation (including partition) including properties covered under the SRA, BMC estates, MIDC, and MHADA and tenancy regime.
-Handling litigation against government entities and regulators.
-Handled a matters against employees who have committed misfeasance, abandonment, breach of duties, confidentiality issues, frauds, theft against their employees.
-Handled a matters for a foreign client regarding a employee who has committed fraud from the Middle East and escaped to India.
-Handling matters in the SEBI Special Court in relation to criminal offences under SEBI Act and various laws / regulations thereunder.
- Handling matters under DV Act and family law.
My areas of work were mergers & acquisitions, general corporate laws, and Banking & Finance laws.
Some key assignments handled:
-Acquisitions of Dubai and Sharjah based hospitals by an Indian Conglomerate.
-Multi-jurisdictional working capital lending transaction including the securing of collateral to an entity in the UAE.
-Structuring and investment transactions in the Africa for a company opening of duty free shops.
-Advising on trust structuring for HNIs.
-Preparing enforceability opinions for lending and funds arrangements.
-setting up companies/entities in the free zones and onshore.
-drafting and advising on real estate transactions.
I worked with the Banking & Finance team of the firm and dealt with lending transactions, general corporate, regulatory advisory to banks and financial institutions in India and abroad.
Some key assignments handled:
-Handling the entire documentation of a working capital facility for an auto dealer in North India.
-Regulatory advisory regarding (Central Bank and Foreign Investment Laws) to non-banking financial companies.
-Advising the annual general meeting of a major Indian private sector bank.
-Advising on legalities involved on online loan processing.
-Advising on merger of intra-group subsidiaries of a major Indian bank.
-Conducting review of various loan documentation templates for Indian Banks.
I have handled regulatory advisory, foreign investments, company set-up, and contract drafting matters. I have also been part of corporate and commercial litigation relating to winding up of companies, money recovery suits, real-estate disputes in the High Court and arbitration.
Some key assignments handled:
-Handling an arbitration proceedings in respect to a dispute between a major warehousing service provider and a retail chain in India.
- Advising on setting up a branch office of a Latvian Bank in India with regards to RBI regulatory compliance.
-Handling the incorporation of a company, further issue of shares under the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies Act, 1956.
-Advising on outward remittance of proceeds of liquidation of proceeds of Indian Joint Venture and on FEMA related queries.
-Argued a creditor's winding up petition in the Bombay High Court and settled a number of such petitions.
Assisted my senior in civil and criminal litigation in local courts at Mumbai.
Member of the solicitor's society of the Bombay High Court. Passed a rigorous law admission exam to become a member.
