Finding a law firm that aligns with your business interests and rightfully understands your needs and concerns is a daunting task. While there are several full-service firms, quite a few are ready to go the extra mile to understand your perspective and mould strategies accordingly. Shrivastava Law Associates (SLA) is a Delhi-based full-service law firm that does just that. Specialising in litigation, administrative and regulatory law, infrastructure, arbitration, insurance, intellectual property rights, mining, environmental law, and corporate documentation, the firm implements a partner-driven approach to ensure complete client satisfaction.
Serving a diverse clientele of both national and international clients, the firm also offers services across other verticals including tax, industry, employment, labour, inheritance and succession, insolvency, and restructuring. Established by Anshuman Srivastava in 2013, the firm has served over 1000 clients and has now recorded a success rate of 95%. Today, the firm has also established associate offices in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, and Raipur.
The Path to Success
Building a law practice from the ground up was undoubtedly a challenging task. During this arduous, but rewarding journey, courage, hard work, and dedication were the cardinal pillars of support for the founders. The relentless efforts of the team allowed the firm to secure a distinct market niche, despite its relatively novel status. The firm was founded with a vision to provide quality legal services to its clients with an unwavering emphasis on ethics and values.
Integrity is the backbone of any organisation. For a law firm, nothing can replace the core principles of integrity, ethics, and values – Anshuman Srivastava
Meeting the Curators
The idea for SLA was conceptualised and brought to fruition by Anshuman Srivastava. As a second-generation lawyer, Anshuman had already worked outside the country, gained valuable experience, and was now looking to take the bold step of establishing his own legal practice. Anshuman completed his LLB from the renowned Cardiff University and his LLM from the University of Wales. He combines his unbound expertise in law with a decade’s worth of hands-on experience to deliver excellence across industrial verticals. His areas of expertise include Commercial Contracts and Business Law, Labour & Employment Laws, Mines & Minerals, Real Estate, Telecom Laws, Consumer Laws, and Administrative & Election Laws. His long list of distinctions includes handling national and international arbitrations before all courts and tribunals, representing leading real estate firms before the Supreme Court, and others.
Abhijeet Srivastava is the Joint Managing Partner at SLA and specialises in Litigation, Arbitration, and Corporate Law. Apart from being an alumnus of Jindal Global Law School and UK’s Durham University, Abhijeet has also completed specialised courses in Corporate Law and Commercial Law from the prestigious London School of Economics. He has worked with several multinational companies, PSUs, and Government departments, representing them in the High Courts, Appellate Courts, and other legal forums like NCLT, NGT, and others. Apart from being a hands-on lawyer, with a pragmatic frame of mind, he is also engaged in pro-nono activities and works relentlessly to help create legal awareness, especially among the marginalised sections of the Indian society.
Understanding the perspective of the client is the key to all pragmatic strategies. Without acknowledging what the client needs or wants, we cannot hope to process to the ideation stage – Abhijeet Srivastava
A Broad Spectrum of Services
With the help of its team of qualified, experienced, and competent lawyers, the SLA provides a broad spectrum of legal services to its clients. Here’s a list of areas that are covered under the firm’s umbrella of services:
- Administrative and Regulatory Law
- Arbitration and Alternate Dispute Resolution
- Civil and Criminal Litigation
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Corporate and Transaction Documentation
- Litigation
- Competition
- Real Estate, Property, and Conveyance
- Succession and Inheritance
Securing a Niche
While the SLA operates with the resources of a large firm, it ensures that its clients receive the dedication and personal attention that’s the hallmark of small firms with limited clients. Thanks to this nuanced approach and its expert partner-led teams, the firm promises to deliver the best of both worlds to its clients. The proactive role of the firm’s partners allows them to discuss issues and cases directly with clients, understand the needs of the client and then ideate appropriate strategies and roadmaps.
Curating a Lasting Legacy
Preserving the ethics and values of an organisation is an essential part of building a lasting legacy. At Srivastava Law Associates, the focus on making an indelible impression on society and bringing about real, tangible change takes precedence over all the conventional definitions and understandings of success. The partners at the firm believe in investing time and efforts to nurture relationships with clients, outperform their own set standards, and set new benchmarks of professionalism. This is the path the firm wants to continue following in the upcoming days.
Adapting to Challenges
During the pandemic, the agile team at Srivastava Law Associates quickly adapted to the new normal by instituting ways of remaining in touch with the clients, instituting remote working protocols as well as dealing with the novel pandemic-induced legal curveballs. With new employment norms in place, the firm saw a rise in clients needing help with new employment contracts, work structures, and compensation packages. The firm also provided its clients with Covid Risk Assessment data and insights to keep them aware of the possible complications and ways to deal with the same. The proactive and hands-on approach of the firm during such tough times was deeply appreciated by its clients.