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Welcome to L E A I D
Dear All,
I take this opportunity to introduce Leaid, a law firm that was established in the year 1999 and renews itself in the year 2014 as a professional law firm providing full legal services, driven by its main partner Mr. Biju Vijayan Nair, who has a legal practice spanning over twenty one years with various reputed law firms and over a wide area of industry and subjects.
‘Keep it simple and accurate’ is the Firm philosophy. Law should be explained in layman terms without unnecessary complications and verbosity. The Firm strives to keep up this motto and all its attorneys are trained to meet this requirement.
The Firm endeavours to adopt a solution-oriented approach which is efficient and cost effective and at the same time safe from the long-term perspective.
All attorneys regularly undergo updating of skills to keep with the latest developments in Law.
‘Service with Alertness & Accuracy’ is the Firm’s guiding Principle.
The Firm operates with the assistance of in-house legal professionals, company secretaries, domain centric outside counsels, designated senior counsels according to their areas of expertise and functions holistically, drawing the combined expertise to bear upon issues.
Biju Vijayan Nair is a Senior legal professional (Litigation and Corporate) with over 21 years of experience in various fields of Law. Versatile and dynamic with the ability to tackle and provide solutions to myriad legal issues. Corporate law with litigation experience across various industry types such as IT, ITES, Real Estate and Infrastructure, Telecom, Automobile, Energy, Trading, FMGC, Biotech, Chemical etc.
Journey so far
Biju Vijayan Nair started his career with the illustrious, immensely learned and greatly principled advocate, the Late Hon'ble Mr. K. S. Kasim. As a junior advocate he gained invaluable knowledge, inspiration and trial court practice experience from the offices of Mr. Kasim. He was a gentleman of stature, erudite and judicious with an even eye on everybody no matter the pedigree. An ilustrious, learned, immensly experienced, kind hearted and Hon'ble junior and a colleague of his from this office is now a Supreme Court Judge.
Thereafter, he joined the offices of Shri. Uday Holla, a dynamic, hardworking and inspired advocate - Holla Holla Patil and Nettar at infantry road bangalore. He gained extensive experience in High Court matters whilst with Mr. Uday Holla. Mr. Uday Holla would challenge his proteges with the most difficult of tasks and therein lay his invaluable guidance, those that fell short were always lifted up to ultimatley lay bare the challenge and flourish.
To gain knowledge about corporate matters, he joined Fox Mandal as associate advocate and gained extensive experience in real estate, contracts and coporate law in general.
Thereafter he had a breif stint of under a year as counsel for Ittina properties - a reputed builder.
Pursuant to that, he had the good fortune to work for Xcite Corp Services Pvt. ltd., a legal process outsourcing handling firm where he spent 3 years with great success in handling various high value projects and was instrumental in billing several lakhs of dollars handling lease agreement drafting for 51 states in the USA incorporating differing laws of the states, several other contracts were managed - matrimonial agreements for 51 states according to their laws, law summarisation regarding withholding tax for 51 states, case law summarisation and several other big budget projects such as concessionarire agreement with chinese and an australian big company - inter country and several others. Whilst at this company he has handled litigation cases and other corporate matters for various clients. A significant matter was a easement rights case at Karkala, Udupi District wherein he won the case against a leading high profile and immensely influential lawyer.
He then joined Sighania and Partners, a corporate law firm as Senior Associate and contributed extensivley in vetting concessionarie agreements, drafting and scripting the entire process for Buy Back of shares of a private Company, besides catering to numerous queries on corporate law and labour/employment by various high profile companies.
Thereafter, he joined Kochhar and Co. at hyderabad, a leading law firm in corporate matters, as Resident Head of the unit at Hyderabad. Whilst at Kochhar, he managed to bag a very high value litigation matter of a large malasysian company - Dijaya Malind in competition with several top tier law firms - his accurate and succinct resolution in a pilot project bagged the case for Kochhar and Co. Throughout his association with Kochhar, he has advised several big corporates on various issues across sectors including handling litigation for some of them.
In 2012, he had the good fortune to join Dua Associates, a leading law firm in corporate and litgation matters, to head a very special team that handled Japanese companies largely in the area of automobile and other trading matters. He has extensively advised in the areas of sales tax, exim policy, foreign employee tax saving, FDI policy on investment, company employment charter, handling of hazardous material and approvals and various other matters. He has provided ingenious and reaserched advise on efficient FDI handling to minimise exependiture across departments vis-a-vis the tax angle.
In the year 2014, he set up a law firm of his own. Leaid was restablished pursuant to efforts as early as 1999.
With Biju at its helm, in the past six years Leaid has added several feathers to its cap. In the year 2015 he quashed a high profile case against a PWD contractor in an alleged 600 crore ramanagara PWD scam in the state of Karnataka. As the case was dismissed on a technical ground, prosecution was allowed to cure the technicality and file the same again. Leaid managed to dimiss the case 4 times on one ground or the other. Several other contractors and engineers became Leaid's clients.
Leaid has been handling writ petitions in the High Court, cases before the trial courts, family court, DRT, consumer court etc, besides handling corpororate, real estate and labour advise to several high profile companies and individuals.
MAIN PRACTICE AREAS OF THE FIRM:
Corporate and Commercial Company Law and Corporate housekeeping Joint Ventures and Collaborations Mergers, Demergers and Acquisitions Share transfers and buy back, Technology Transfer and Licensing Commercial contracts Comprehensive legal due diligence (includes company law, labour laws, commercial agreements assessments, statutory compliances including VAT & CST, immovable property title verification, lease assessments etc.) Foreign Investment Laws and Regulations FEMA, SEBI and RBI regulations Entry and Exit strategies Repatriation of investment IT and ITES Contracts in the areas of Information Technology and Intellectual Property (IP) protection Cyber Laws and IP protection Action against infringement and Litigation Registration of IP Power All electricity laws Contracts in the areas of power projects Litigation before ombudsman and power tribunals.
Roads Concession Agreements (BOT, BOOT) etc.
Also handling documentation in Infrastructure and related projects, banking project finance, contracts and transaction support, securitisation assistance, banking law contracts related to banking Investment, domestic and international private equity transactions, assistance in negotiations, structuring of Investments, taxation aspects, advise on direct and indirect taxes - Vat, Service Tax and Excise Tax and related litigation, advice on tax treaties, labour and employment advice on all labour and industrial laws, labour related litigation, employment agreements and company policy, advice on provident fund, maternity benefit, gratuity, bonus, shops and establishments, retrenchment and trade union disputes. real estate and property laws, real estate transactions and documentation. title verification and conveyance transactions sale, lease and construction contracts, land acquisition matters.
Litigation - all commercial disputes and matters before the Civil Courts, High Court, Supreme Court, Tribunals, Consumer Forum etc. Company law matters and winding up, liquidation etc., Land Acquisition, Service, Education, RSA, RFA, MFA, Cr.LP, LRRP etc. Arbitration Assistance in prosecution of arbitration cases.
FOREIGN ATTORNEY ASSISTANCE SERVICES - Application summaries, Lease abstracts, contract drafting, legal research and advice – memo format, case law research and case summaries.