Sectors
Sectors
Legal exposure differs by industry. Regulatory obligations, financing structures, statutory compliance and the forums in which disputes are decided are not the same across sectors. The six below are the second route into the same material as the practice pages: each states the industries it covers, the regulators and forums involved, and the practice areas that apply.
Manufacturing
Legal work for manufacturers and the trade that moves their output: incentive schemes and industrial licensing, technology transfer and IP, supply chain and carrier contracts, export control and customs.
Technology and services
Legal work for technology, platform and service businesses: data protection under the DPDP Act, intermediary liability, content and IP licensing, platform regulation, and the licensing and governance regimes that apply to media, education, hospitality and the creative economy.
Infrastructure and projects
Legal work on capital projects and the resources that feed them: land acquisition and compensation, environmental clearance, statutory licensing, EPC and concession disputes, power sector regulation and mining.
Real estate
Legal work across residential, commercial and mixed-use development: RERA compliance and proceedings, title and land disputes, joint development structures, construction arbitration, lease and tenancy disputes, and insolvency involving developers.
Financial services
Legal work for lenders, listed companies, funds and financial technology businesses: SARFAESI and DRT enforcement, insolvency, SEBI proceedings, AIF and FEMA compliance, and the RBI licensing regimes that govern payments and digital lending.
Healthcare and pharma
Legal work for hospitals, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, and life sciences enterprises: medical negligence proceedings, CDSCO and drug regulatory compliance, NPPA price control, clinical trial regulation, and restructuring where intellectual property is the principal asset.
Across sectors: promoter-led enterprises
A large part of Indian business is promoter-led or family-owned, and in those companies ownership, governance and management sit close together. That structure produces its own body of legal work regardless of the industry the company operates in: shareholder disputes, succession, governance restructuring, scrutiny of related-party transactions, and intra-family commercial conflict that carries reputational as well as legal exposure.
The questions that recur are how a founding family's holding is structured, what a family settlement can and cannot bind, when a minority holding supports a petition for oppression and mismanagement under the Companies Act, 2013, and how a founder exit is documented so that it survives a later challenge.