Naik Naik & Co is a full-service firm with an experienced litigation and arbitration department. The litigation team comprises more than 40% of the firm’s fee-earner numbers. While the firm is best known in the market as a pre-eminent firm for media and entertainment matters, its industry expertise also includes financial services and oil and gas. The firm’s disputes offering is extensive and covers commercial disputes, corporate litigation, white-collar crime, frauds and scams, cybercrimes, consumer protections disputes, debt recovery matters, and domestic and international arbitrations. A key recent development was its alliance with Anand and Anand in western India, which focuses on bolstering its IP litigation expertise.
Managing partner Ameet Naik is the key contact for disputes work. Other notable practitioners include deputy managing partners Abhishek Kale and Madhu Gadodia, and partner Abha Shah.
The team acted for plaintiff Amitabh Bachchan alongside Anand and Anand in a Supreme Court case involving safeguarding the clients’ personality rights. The Delhi High Court acknowledged that the client’s prominent personality is recognisable among the masses at large, and therefore he is entitled to be protected against all known and unknown unlawful acts of exploiting his personality. The court granted a ‘first of its kind’ ad-interim injunction order restraining the defendants and the world at large from exploiting Bachchan’s personality.
Client feedback
“Solid understanding about the subject and provides guidance accordingly.” – Commercial and transactions
Madhu Chaudhary Gadodia
“She has a sharp understanding of the subject.”
