NM Law

White-Collar Defence

White Collar Defence

We advise and represent corporates, promoters, directors, senior executives, and professionals in complex white-collar crime matters involving financial, economic, and regulatory offences. The firm routinely acts in investigations and prosecutions initiated by enforcement and investigative agencies, where stakes involve personal liberty, asset protection, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk.

Our practice focuses on early-stage legal strategy and rights protection, particularly at the summons, search, seizure, attachment, and arrest stages. We regularly handle matters involving parallel proceedings under multiple statutes, including criminal law, economic offences legislation, and regulatory frameworks, ensuring a coordinated and defensible approach across forums.

With experience before trial courts, special courts, high courts, and the Supreme Court of India, we combine criminal defence expertise with regulatory and constitutional insight to manage high-risk enforcement actions effectively.

  • Defence in white-collar crime investigations and prosecutions involving economic and financial offences
  • Representation before enforcement and investigative agencies, including ED, CBI, SFIO, DRI, and police authorities
  • Advisory and defence under PMLA, IPC/BNS, Companies Act, FEMA, GST, and allied statutes
  • Strategy and representation at the stage of summons, search, seizure, arrest, and recording of statements
  • Bail proceedings, including regular, anticipatory, and default bail
  • Challenges to provisional attachment of property and confiscation proceedings under PMLA
  • Look-Out Circular (LOC) challenges and travel-restriction matters
  • Quashing of FIRs, ECIRs, complaints, and criminal proceedings
  • Management of parallel criminal, regulatory, civil, and insolvency-linked proceedings
  • Advisory on director, promoter, and senior management liability and risk exposure
  • Advised and represented various companies and individuals in multiple SFIO investigations and trials, primarily being:
  1. CFO (Nittin Johari) of Bhushan Steel
  2. Ex-CFO in the Rockland Hospital SFIO Trial
  3. Promoters/Directors of Frost Group of companies in SFIO investigation and trial
  4. Related/Connected companies in Adarsh Cooperative scam SFIO proceedings
  5. Ex-Promoter of Fortis and Religare
  6. Ex-Promoters of Unitech Ltd
  7. Ex-Promoter of Educomp Solution Ltd
  8. Ex-Promoters of Rotomac Group
  9. Ex-Promoters of Lanco Group
  • Successfully represented various high-net-worth individuals/promoters/directors/NRI(s) seeking quashing of the Look-Out Circulars issued against them at the behest of various investigating agencies/financial institutions.
  • Represented and advised the promoters of the Frost Group in relation to various CBI and ED trials.
  • Represented and advised the ex-promoters of Diamond Power & Infrastructure Ltd, Sintex Industries Ltd, Omkar Group, Educomp Solutions Ltd, Lanco Group, ARCHON Group, Viva Holdings Group, Ex-Promoter of Videocon, NeelKanth promoters, in various CBI and ED investigations as well as Trials.
  • Represented an international security systems supplier in an investigation by DRI and Customs.
  • Represented and advised one of India’s biggest flour mill promoters in CBI & ED investigations and incidental litigations.
  • Represented and advised KJS Cement as well as an international AI-tech company in issues arising out of GST investigations.
  • Represented the Essar Group, DB Realty Promoters, and a Malaysian media company in investigations and trials before the 2G Special Court pertaining to the 2G Spectrum Scam.
  • Represented and advised a large Indian company in various civil and criminal proceedings arising out of certain fraudulent activities by the erstwhile key officials of the company.
  • Represented a large foreign retailer in investigations and court proceedings concerning an investigation initiated by the Central Vigilance Commission.
  • Advised a German e-commerce company in the restaurant aggregation business on certain fraudulent transactions undertaken by the erstwhile managing director.
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