P.L. Agarwal is a Partner speacialising in the Corporate and Commercial Law and Real Estate Consultancy in a career spanning over four decades. He has been advising several large industrial houses, multinational corporations and banks, including Tata Global Beverages Limited, Simplex Infrastructures Group, Pricewaterhouse Coopers Private Limited, Linde India Limited, ICICI Bank Limited, ITC Limited, Balrampur Chini Mills Limited, DIC India Limited (formerly Coates of India Limited) and group companies, the Ambuja Group, the R.P. Goenka Group, the G.P. Goenka Group, the C.K. Birla Group, the B.K. Birla Group, the S.K. Birla Group, Williamson Magor Group, Usha Martin Group, the HMP Group, Emami Group, United Credit Group, the Thapar Group, Dhunseri (C.K. Dhanuka) Group, Tata Medical Centre Trust, Luxmi Tea Co. Limited, Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co Limited, Rossell India Limited, Haldia Petrochemicals Limited, the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Limited (WBIDC), the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited, West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (WEBEL) amongst others.
He is also a member of its Institutional Review Board (Ethics Committee) of Tata Medical Center, Kolkata.
Corporate and Commercial
Real Estate
Advised on setting up trust and purchase of land in Kolkata.
Advising in incorporating an Indian subsidiary and setting up business in India.
Advising on takeover of Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Limited.
Advising on various aspects of closure of operations and transferring business to State Bank of India.
Advising on private placement of secured redeemable non-convertible debentures of Rs 325 crores and Rs 400 crores respectively.
Advising in respect of setting up of a minor port and SEZ at Kulpi, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal with private partner, P&O.
Advising in respect of development of an I.T. Park at New Town, Rajarhat, Kolkata on all aspects of tender issued for sale of land in association with C.B. Richard Ellis South Asia Pvt Ltd, to DLF Group.
Advising regarding the purchase of shares of Larsen & Toubro Limited in HPL Cogeneration Limited (a subsidiary of HPL) and subsequent Scheme of Amalgamation.
Advising in relation to the dispute with Dr P Chatterjee Group in connection with Haldia Petrochemicals Limited.