Boutique firm Legacy Law Offices is a top choice for disputes in connection with infrastructure projects. Its leadership team of four are experienced counsels in construction arbitrations that have worked on numerous landmark mandates in the past. The firm has an enviable track record of arbitration success, winning 98% of cases on behalf of claimant clients. The firm moves up a notch in the infrastructure and construction tables this year. Managing partner Gagan Anand and senior partner Sadiqua Fatma are the key contacts. Other names to note are co-managing partner Shalini Munjal and partner Madhav Sharma. The firm welcomed construction transaction-focused partners Amarendra Gogoi and Rahul Sharma, while disputes experts Ramanjit Singh, Paromita Majumdar and Ashwini Kumar Singh joined last year.
Client feedback
“During our dealings with Legacy, we have found their lawyers to possess an extensive knowledge and experience of working on national and international projects, client handling and other aspects of their practice. Their manner of rendering legal services by adopting a client-specific method is unique and palpable. From project management to dispute resolution, we have found the lawyers to be dexterous, skilled and professional. Given our ongoing project arrangement, a special mention to their distinguished contract management services is essential, as the team is extremely happy with the way in which the lawyers are handling the assignment.” – Construction
“The lawyers of the firm are highly professional and extraordinary, in terms of providing legal services in a variety of sectors. Presently, we are availing almost all services from this firm, owing to their distinctive attitude and time-efficient work. The management has always appreciated the manner in which their lawyers deal with the clients and have been in awe of the quality of the deliverables for each of our projects. There have even been times when we have approached Mr. Gagan to work on some project, where another lawyer was previously engaged, merely due to the excellence of his team and his knowledge.” – Construction
“The team is very accessible, diligent and dependable when it comes to the organisation’s legal needs. We have used multiple advocates in the past but this relationship has proven to exceed my expectations.” – Dispute resolution
“In my interactions with the lawyers of the firm, I have found them to be highly experienced and knowledgeable. They make the best possible endeavours to attain favourable orders for their clients, which is an appreciated quality. Another positive attribute of the firm is the way in which they keep the client updated about the different cases, even before being prompted.” – Dispute resolution
Gagan Anand
“Gagan Anand is an ardent legal professional with years of experience, which is well exhibited in his way of providing legal opinions and directing his junior lawyers. He is always approachable and provides ample time for every client in relation to their legal queries. I have found Mr. Anand to be an exceptionally well-established and knowledgeable legal professional.”
“We found Mr. Gagan Anand to be an extremely ardent lawyer with a profound knowledge of laws. His contributions and legal insight on the various projects of the company has been widely accepted by us as being practical and unique. His enriching experience is reflected through his work and the technique with which the clients are handled at the firm.”
“Mr. Anand is a highly reputed legal profession with a vast experience and expertise in the sector. We appreciate his responsiveness to the client queries and the manner of his management of the deliverables. The distinctiveness in his guidance to the team is extremely apparent in all the deliverables. It was an absolute pleasure to understand his unique perspective towards legal issues and professional angle of dealing with posed challenges. His expertise and excellence gathered over years of practice is evidently displayed through his result-driven approach and professional proficiency.”
“We have found Mr. Gagan Anand to have the ability and professionalism to handle different types of legal issues. He is a great lawyer and portrays professionalism at its best.”
Parveen Moudgil
“His vast experience handling various law enforcement agencies helped to provide quick, workable solutions to legal issues at hand. His depth of knowledge for civil and criminal laws, along with arbitration law, is immaculate.”
Work highlights
Successfully represented Ceigall India and Patel Engineering before the Delhi High Court in a matter concerning the construction of the Ramban-Banihal twin tube tunnel.
Acted for the claimant EPC contractor, GKC Projects, in its claim against National Highways Authority of India concerning the upgrading of the two-lane Tanda Raebareli road section.
Key clients
Intercontinental Consultants & Technocrats, Mumbai Nasik Expressway, Rohtak Panipat Tollways, Usha Breco.
Work highlights
Represented the Directorate of Industries, Government of Himachal Pradesh, in relation to setting up one of only three sanctioned Bulk Drug Parks in India.
Advised project consultancy firm Meinhardt for the implementation of the Statue of Oneness project at Omkareshwar.
Key clients
India International Horticulture Market, Ministry of Road Transport in Mongolia, Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Development Board.
