Legafin Law Associates LLP has advised and acted for public-sector employers, infrastructure developers, contractors, insurers and the State across the full life of a project from the scrutiny of tender documents and the calibration of contractual risk, through contract administration in execution, to disputes before Arbitral Tribunals, Dispute Adjudication Boards and the High Courts. The firm appears regularly in domestic commercial arbitrations and in international proceedings administered under the ICC Rules and FIDIC contracts, and is empanelled with among others ISPRL, NHAI, NHIDCL, GAIL, SAIL, NTPC, IRCON, IRCTC, DFCCIL, National Insurance and Reliance General Insurance. The firm works in close concert with forensic delay specialists, quantity surveyors and Senior Counsel. Cases handled by the firm an indicative list is set out below.
Legafin Advocates successfully defended the National Highways Authority of India through the entire dispute cycle on the two-laning with paved shoulder of NH-67 between Nagapattinam and Thanjavur. The firm defended NHAI in the underlying commercial arbitrations with Madhucon (1st and 2nd References), resisting contractor claims of approximately INR 104 crore and INR 418 crore respectively, and thereafter appeared for NHAI before the Delhi High Court in a Section 34 challenge to an arbitral award of approximately INR 52.62 crore for idling of plant and manpower, overheads and interest.
Legafin Advocates successfully defended the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited in Dispute Adjudication Board proceedings against the Sojitz–L&T joint venture under a FIDIC Yellow Book contract for the design and construction of civil, building and track works on the Rewari–Dadri section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, contesting an associated monetary claim of approximately INR 927 crore towards prolongation and disruption, and working in tandem with forensic delay consultants to vet and prepare a comprehensive Extension of Time Rebuttal Report identifying tenable delay events, mapping schedule impact and analysing concurrent delay.
Legafin Advocates acts for Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited — the Government of India's nodal entity for strategic crude-oil reserves — in a series of connected arbitrations and post-award proceedings concerning the construction of underground rock-cavern storage facilities at Mangalore and Padur in Karnataka. The firm's instructions on this mandate have run end-to-end through the dispute cycle:
Legafin Advocates successfully represented and defended the State of Arunachal Pradesh in a commercial arbitration arising from a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer contract for the 144 MW Gongri Hydro-Electric Project on the Gongri River, West Kameng District, in which Patel Engineering filed a claim of approximately INR 2,282 crore against the State of Arunachal Pradesh on the termination of the contract. The arbitration proceedings involved discovery and interrogatories, the preparation and filing of the Statement of Defence and Counter-Claims, cross-examinations, and a discovery application structured along the Redfern Schedule.
Legafin Advocates advises a contractor in connection with a work order for trenching and ducting works under the CG BharatNet Phase II Project. The firm is structuring contractual notices and the formulation of claims against the employer for delay, scope variations, site conditions and entitlement to extensions of time and cost compensation.
Legafin Advocates represents a public-sector undertaking in a domestic commercial arbitration concerning the construction of a Corporate Building and allied works, together with the operation and maintenance of the building and its assets for a six-year term following expiry of the defects liability maintenance period.
Legafin Advocates successfully represented National Insurance Company Limited in arbitration under a Contractor's All Risk policy issued for an EPC hill-road highway project in Uttarakhand, defending contractor claims arising from rainfall-induced landslides during execution and engaging with policy coverage, surveyor findings and the line between insured physical damage and uninsured debris-clearance and maintenance obligations. The firm contended that the claim fell outside the arbitration clause of the policy; the Tribunal accepted the objection and dismissed the contractor's claim.
Legafin Advocates vetted a civil works tender to be issued by the Central Warehousing Corporation, structured on CPWD-type General Conditions of Contract. The review addressed contractual risk allocation, the hierarchy of documents, performance guarantee and security deposit exposure, the extension-of-time regime, the calibration of delay compensation and liquidated damages, the measurement and certification of works, payment procedures, and final-bill claim-waiver clauses.
Matter descriptions are illustrative and have been anonymised where the firm's confidentiality obligations so require. Contract values, claim figures and procedural references are stated as at the relevant time and may have moved on in subsequent proceedings.