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Some of the key assignments in these areas handled and being handled by Pallavi amongst others, cover the following:

• Represented a leading engineering companyin an arbitration against Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. relating to disputes arising out of engineering and construction contract for the offsite and storage facilities for Panipat Naphtha Cracker Project. The arbitration involved claims for grant of extension of time, claim towards costs on account of change order proposals, deductions from invoices, etc.
• Representing a Hong Kong–based company in an ICC arbitration against an Indian company in relation to disputes arising from an agreement for the sale of a raise boring machine (RBM) and related equipment.
• Representing India’s leading construction and infrastructure development company in several arbitrations involving claims for variation, withholdings, extension of time, etc.
• Representing a leading IT Service Provider in an arbitration against Directorate of Health Services, Government of Delhi for disputes under an agreement whereby the service provider was to develop a platform (health information management system) for citizens of Delhi to transform the healthcare service delivery system.
• Represented WBIDC in an arbitration initiated by Tata Motors Limited (TML) for disputes arising out of a lease deed between parties whereby WBIDC had leased land to TML for setting up a plant for manufacture of Tata Nano car in Singur, West Bengal.
• Represented a client in an international arbitration seated in India for disputes concerning disbursement of incentives to Haldia Petrochemicals Limited (HPL).
• Representing a major Indian construction company in an arbitration against the Airport Authority of India, arising out of a contract for construction of New Greenfield Airport at Rajkot, Gujarat.
• Representing an infrastructure consulting firm engaged as Independent Engineer for projects for construction of four-lane flyover in the State of Madhya Pradesh.
• Represented a real estate developer before the Supreme Court in a writ petition challenging the constitutional validity of the amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, whereby allottees/ homebuyers were granted the status of financial creditors. The Supreme Court passed a significant judgment upholding the constitutionality of the amendment.
• Represented a lender having an exposure in a group company of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited, one of the biggest Indian infrastructure development and finance company, before National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.
• Represented a leading non-banking financial company before the Supreme Court on the issue of whether a debt stands discharged on invocation of pledge of shares. The Supreme Court passed a landmark judgment and settled some key aspects of the law relating to pledge and the interplay between the Depositories Act and the Indian Contract Act.
• Represented India’s largest commodity exchange platform, in writ petitions filed by several traders, who were aggrieved by the fixation of rates of crude oil futures contract at a negative value.