Sameer Parekh

An Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court of India, Sameer has done his Masters in Law from the University of Pennsylvania and is admitted to practice in India and New York, USA.

He is the Managing Partner of the firm, with over 30 years of experience.  He has substantial experience in construction laws, corporate laws as also in dispute resolution including international commercial Arbitrations.

Sameer is widely acclaimed as the top Construction Law expert in the country. He has been involved in a large number of very complex arbitrations and is well recognised for understanding engineering issues and identifying and building the claims of the clients. He is well versed with handling of Primavera Project Planning software.

Sameer has appeared in many celebrated judgments relating to Constitutional Law, Arbitration and Construction Law matters.

Sameer has presented several papers on Construction Law, Arbitrations and Private International Law. He has appeared in over 100 arbitrations. He has also been appointed an Arbitrator in an SIAC Arbitration.

The Firm

Founded in 1975, Parekh & Co. is one of the leading law firms in India. Based at New Delhi, Parekh & Co. boasts of a wealth of expertise and experience in diverse fields of law and represents clients all over India as also in other Countries.

Parekh & Co. is the leading firm in India in the field of Construction and Infrastructure Laws. We advise large infrastructure companies from bidding to the execution stage and finally through dispute resolution. We work on diverse projects ranging from Airports, Ports, Roads, Oil and Gas, Hydroelectric Power Projects, Nuclear Power Projects, Blast Furnaces, Railway and Metro Projects etc. We advise almost all Indian Construction majors, as also a large number of foreign firms involved with construction projects in India.

We are proficient in Arbitrations, both in the field of Construction Law and Commercial matters. We appear in arbitrations governed by the Rules of ICC, SIAC, DIAC, LCIA etc. and also Ad-hoc arbitrations. Some of the firm’s partners  have also been appointed as arbitrators in international Arbitrations. The firm is conducting the largest number of Arbitrations under the ICC, Paris Rules in India.

We are recognized as one of the best law firms for dispute resolution in India, having capabilities in diverse fields including Corporate and Commercial Laws, Taxation, Banking, Securities Regulations, Insurance, Income Tax, Corporate Finance, Labour Laws and others.

The firm has lawyers qualified in India and countries across the world who are eligible to practice in various jurisdictions including the Supreme Court of India, New York, UK, Singapore etc.

We regularly represent large corporates in India including Reliance Industries, Tata Projects, Larsen and Toubro, GMR, ICICI Bank, Standard Charted Bank, Edelweiss Group, Blue Dart, Vedanta Limited, Hindustan Unilever, Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association of India, Nuclear Power Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Welspun apart from numerous clients from across the world including British Gas, Toshiba, Maeda, British Petroleum, Deutche Bank etc.

Our offices are located in the heart of Delhi with all major Courts and Tribunals within close proximity.  The firm also maintains a fully functional office in the Supreme Court of India.