Consortium Legal

Practice Area

Specialist Practices

Specialised mandates where domain depth matters — intellectual property and white-collar defence.

Intellectual Property Rights

The firm provides specialised services in the protection, management and enforcement of intellectual property rights, recognising their critical role in modern business and innovation-driven economies. The practice encompasses advisory and representation in matters relating to trademarks, copyrights, and allied proprietary rights — including registration, opposition, rectification and infringement proceedings. The firm assists clients in developing robust brand protection strategies, structuring licensing and assignment arrangements, and safeguarding creative and commercial assets against unauthorised use.

Key Work
  • Advising clients on the registrability of trademarks and filing trademark applications before the Trade Marks Registry.
  • Prosecuting trademark applications through examination, objections, and hearing stages.
  • Filing and contesting trademark opposition proceedings where third-party marks conflict with client interests.
  • Filing rectification applications to remove invalidly registered marks from the register.
  • Representing clients in trademark infringement and passing off suits before District Courts and High Courts.
  • Advising on copyright ownership, authorship disputes, and moral rights.
  • Drafting and negotiating trademark and copyright licensing agreements, including territorial scope, royalty structures, quality control provisions, and sub-licensing rights.
  • Drafting trademark and copyright assignment agreements ensuring valid transfer of ownership and associated goodwill.
  • Conducting IP audits to identify what rights a business owns, what requires registration, and where it faces exposure.
  • Developing long-term IP protection strategies aligned with the client's brand development and market expansion plans.
  • Advising on domain name disputes and online brand protection.

White Collar Crimes

The firm has developed a strong practice in handling matters relating to white collar crimes, providing strategic legal representation in cases involving financial fraud, corporate misconduct, economic offences and regulatory violations. Representation is provided at every stage — investigation, interrogation, pre-arrest and regular bail, trial, and appeal. The firm places significant emphasis on safeguarding the procedural and constitutional rights of clients while undertaking a thorough analysis of documentary and electronic evidence.

Key Work
  • Advising clients at the investigation stage, including during searches, seizures, and summons issued by enforcement agencies.
  • Seeking anticipatory bail in financial fraud, cheating, and economic offence matters before Sessions Courts and High Courts.
  • Appearing in regular bail applications where clients are in custody in connection with white collar offences.
  • Representing clients before the Enforcement Directorate in PMLA proceedings, including challenges to attachment orders and summons.
  • Appearing before the Serious Fraud Investigation Office and other regulatory investigative bodies.
  • Preparing defence strategy in trials involving allegations of cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, and embezzlement.
  • Managing complex documentary and electronic evidence, including financial records, corporate communications, and digital forensics.
  • Filing appeals against conviction and sentence in white collar crime matters.
  • Advising companies and senior executives proactively on compliance frameworks, internal controls, and governance structures to reduce exposure to regulatory and criminal liability.
  • Assisting organisations in conducting internal investigations when misconduct is suspected, advising on scope, privilege, and regulatory disclosure obligations.