Peshwan Jehangir is a Partner with the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice team. He has vast experience in the field of dispute resolution and has handled various international and domestic arbitration matters and a large variety litigation matters before various courts in India, as well as the securities appellate tribunal, and National Company Law Tribunal / company law board and National Green Tribunal. Apart from the various commercial and contractual disputes he has handled, he also has extensive experience in matters relating to corporate restructuring such as schemes of mergers, demergers, arrangements, reduction in share capital, etc.
Peshwan has represented and advised clients in several criminal matters under various provisions of the Indian penal code, companies act, drugs and cosmetics act, legal metrology act, negotiable instruments act, Maharashtra ownership of flats act and the Andhra Pradesh protection of depositors of financial establishments act.
The clientele Peshwan has represented include various leading multinationals and industrial houses of the country, including government authorities, prominent infrastructure, private equity firms, pharmaceutical, automobile, real estate, hospitality, advertising, public sector undertakings and ship building companies.
Dispute Resolution
Advised in various disputes arising out of the implementation of a Metro railway along the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, including regarding claims for damages due to delays and costs escalations, fixation of fares for the Metro, as well as various disputes arising out of a shareholder’s agreement entered into between the implementing authority and consortium members
Challenging the vires of an amendment to the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules seeking mandatory marking of cosmetic products with a red or green dot, indicating the source and/or ingredients as vegetarian or non-vegetarian
Advised in relation to the Composite Scheme of Arrangement in relation to the merger of Birlasoft (India) Limited with KPIT Technologies Limited and as part of the same scheme, demerger of engineering business of KPIT Technologies Limited into KPIT Engineering Limited.
Advised in relation to the Scheme of Amalgamation in relation to the merger of Bacchus Hospitality Services and Real Estate Private Limited, Metropolis Healthcare (Chandigarh) Private Limited, Metropolis Healthcare (Jodhpur) Private Limited, Final Diagnosis Private Limited, Golwilkar Metropolis Health Services (India) Private Limited with Metropolis Healthcare Limited
Advised in relation to the Scheme of Amalgamation in relation to the merger of Motilal Oswal Securities Limited with Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited
