Legafin Advocates represents a public-sector undertaking in a domestic commercial arbitration concerning the construction of a Corporate Building and allied works, together with the operation and maintenance of the building and its assets for a six-year term following expiry of the defects liability maintenance period.
Legafin Advocates successfully defended the National Highways Authority of India in arbitration with Datta & Datta Associates arising out of a consultancy contract for the planning, design and supervision of the construction of NHAI's corporate building, resisting claims in excess of INR 2 crore.
Legafin Advocates prepared the legal brief and formulated the queries on behalf of SAIL–Bhilai Steel Plant, Durg District, Chhattisgarh, and coordinated the opinion of Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Ld. Additional Solicitor General, on the employer's remedies in the wake of contractor delay — in particular, whether security deposit could be forfeited where extension of time had been granted partly with, and partly without, levy of liquidated damages. The matter called for a careful analysis of delay attribution, the contractual prerequisites to termination, and the interaction between liquidated damages and performance-security provisions.