Sarvada Legal possesses rich experience in handling a wide range of contentious as well as non-contentious competition law matters in sectors such as digital markets, platform markets, e-commerce, healthcare, auto parts and automobile, cement, stock exchange, aviation, oil & gas, entertainment, government procurement, fast moving consumer goods, chemicals, radio taxi among others.The team is at the forefront of the major enforcement actions which are presently being undertaken in the digital markets across all judicial and quasi-judicial forums in India, including the Supreme Court, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, various High Courts of India, and the CCI.

The Competition Law practice at Sarvada Legal is headed by practitioners who have been recognized by Legal 500, Whos Who Legal, Chambers & Partners and Asia Law for their work in Competition Law and comprises advocates who have been at the forefront in appearing in leading matters across sectors which is shaping the jurisprudence of competition & antitrust law in India.

The team’s core strength lies in theirextensive litigation capabilities wherein it draws strength from not only its robust antitrust enforcement practice, but also rich domain expertise across other branches of litigation, especially in technology law. Combining the same, the team commands the ability to curate out of the box arguments which go on to become precedents in the antitrust space.

The Competition Law team at Sarvada Legal pride themselves as litigators- thus the advocates at Sarvada Legal are adept in advancing oral pleadings before the Courts and tribunals. Some of our team’s novel arguments have become precedentswhich include – laying down standards for obtaining interim injunction in digital markets, use of market power doctrine to analyze vertical agreements of various platform players, invoking the doctrine of necessity to adjudicate matters when there is no quorum at the CCI, interface between data protection and competition law, laying down the standard of extra territorial operation of the CCI, et al. Due to our innovative litigation strategy, Sarvada Legal was the recipient of the GCR award in 2023, for the Behavioral Matter of the Year (Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa).  

Sarvada Legal also assists clients in merger filings. We work closely with companies to (i) understand their business model; (ii) rationale of the transactions. This, coupled with industry expertise, helps us in effectively positioning our regulatory filings. This also helps us to craft innovative commitment packages to protect the overall strategic interest of our clients.

We also design, implement, and maintain anti-trust compliance programs for companies across sectors as a litigation proofing exercise. This is backed by our insights and experience in dealing with the Courts and Tribunals across India on antitrust related issues.

The team has experience in aiding and advising clients on the entire gamut of competition law matters including: 

Enforcement

• Assisting and representing clients before the Director General, Competition Commission of India, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, High Courts and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.
• Representing clients in filing leniency applications with the CCI as well as representing companies that are party to leniency proceedings in investigations before the DG and inquiries before the CCI.

Merger Control

• Structuring, advisory, filing merger notifications and obtaining merger approval from the CCI.
• Structuring and negotiating commitments between clients and the CCI.

Compliance

• Review of the agreements and business practices of the companies to ensure that they are in compliance with competition law.
• Training and preparing clients for dawn-raids and designing, implementing and maintaining competition compliance programs.