About Us

Keystone Partners is a specialist dispute resolution firm, with a team of 50 lawyers across its three offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi. The firm is widely recognised for its work in contentious mandates encompassing civil and commercial litigation, international and domestic arbitration, and Constitutional and regulatory matters.

The keystone difference

Quality, Integrity, Collaboration

At Keystone Partners, we specialize in resolving complex legal disputes with precision, expertise, and professionalism. With a strong foundation built on experience navigating disputes across various sectors and fora, our team brings clarity and confidence to clients navigating challenging legal landscapes.

Who We Are

Keystone Partners is powered by a team of highly qualified lawyers from premier law schools across India and the world. Our offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, and New Delhi deliver specialized advisory and representational services for disputes mandates, serving clients across India and on an international scale.

What We Offer

From sector-specific strategies to seamless collaboration across geographies, we tailor solutions to align with our clients’ goals and business objectives.

Breadth of Expertise

The Firm’s partners draw from diverse backgrounds including experience at top Indian and global law firms, qualifications as an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India, admission as a solicitor to the Bombay Incorporated Law Society, strategic consulting at McKinsey & Co., and legal qualifications in foreign jurisdictions.

Our Values

The Principles That Define Us

At Keystone Partners, our values are the cornerstone of our identity, guiding how we interact with clients and our people, work as legal professionals, and grow as an organisation.

People

Empowering individuals through professional development, recognition, and a healthy work-life balance.

Friendship

Building a supportive and collaborative environment rooted in camaraderie and mutual respect.

Trust

Earning confidence within the organisation and amongst clients and the legal fraternity, through transparency, accountability, and confidentiality.

Integrity

Upholding the highest ethical standards with honesty and accountability.

Pride

Striving for excellence and taking ownership of our work and responsibilities.

Respect

Embracing diversity and treating everyone with fairness and dignity.

Fun

Fostering a workplace where hard work is balanced with moments of joy and celebration.

Support

Championing mutual and holistic support, offering help, sharing knowledge, and being approachable for professional and personal growth.

Heart and Soul

Bringing passion, excellence, and purpose to our work, serving clients, communities, and causes with heart.

Partners

Leadership Built on Expertise

Our partners bring wide-ranging experience and a proven track record of innovation and strategic thinking to complex legal mandates across diverse sectors.

Industries

Expertise Across Sectors

Keystone Partners represents domestic and international clients across a wide array of industries and sectors, and is adept at tailoring solutions to meet their unique commercial imperatives.

Automobiles

Automobiles

The firm represents listed and unlisted automobile majors in regulatory litigation, vendor disputes and shareholder actions, amongst others.

Banking

Banking

The firm acts for banks, NBFCs, borrowers and guarantors in DRT, SARFAESI and IBC actions, commercial suits, and writ and arbitration mandates.

Construction

Construction

The Firm represents project owners, contractors, sub-contractors, developers, and vendors in court and arbitration mandates (both ad hoc and institutional).

Defence

Defence

We represent defense manufacturers in litigation against the Government, including in relation to procurement, public tendering and blacklisting.

E- Commerce

E- Commerce

The firm represents e-commerce platforms in a variety of disputes, including in regulatory and compliance litigation, in seller, consumer and user disputes, and in disputes with investors.

Education

Education

The firm represents leading universities, colleges, schools, examination authorities, as also faculty members and students, in regulatory litigation, disputes pertaining to conduct of examinations, disciplinary proceedings, and disputes relating to management and affiliations.

Electricity

Electricity

The firm represents regulators before the APTEL, High Courts, and the Supreme Court, including in challenges to validity of regulations. We also represent power generators, equipment manufacturers, and project owners before State ERCs and in high-stakes commercial arbitrations.

FMCG

FMCG

The firm acts for FMCG clients in proceedings relating to disparaging advertisements, trademark infringement, disputes under distribution agreements, and product liability actions before consumer fora, amongst others.

Food & Beverages

Food & Beverages

The firm acts for restaurants and their promoters in shareholder disputes, intellectual property litigation, employment disputes, and licensing and regulatory writ proceedings.

Gaming

Gaming

The firm acts for numerous skill-based gaming companies, including the leading national federation, in writ proceedings pertaining to legality of various gaming apps, the constitutionality of regulations, in disputes relating to taxation, and in intellectual property claims.

Government

Government

The firm acts for regulators and PSUs in commercial and regulatory disputes before various statutory tribunals, High Courts, and the Supreme Court.

Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

The firm represents hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical professionals, medical equipment manufacturers, and consumers in a variety of mandates including in commercial suits, IP litigation, tender disputes, and in medical negligence actions before the consumer fora.

Hotels, Hospitality and Recreational Services

Hotels, Hospitality and Recreational Services

The firm acts for clients from the sector in shareholder disputes, IP litigation, regulatory and licensing litigation, restructuring and banking disputes, and other commercial mandates across various fora.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

The firm represents manufacturers in commercial disputes, regulatory and compliance litigation, labour disputes, IP disputes (including pertaining to protection of patents and designs), product-liability related litigation, and in defence of criminal proceedings.

Media & Entertainment

Media & Entertainment

The firm represents media houses, OTT platforms, content creators, and entertainers in a host of proceedings asserting free speech rights (including in actions alleging defamation or contempt), in copyright litigation, and in regulatory challenges.

Mining

Mining

The firm has represented mining sector clients in civil, commercial, writ, and regulatory proceedings, including for grant of approvals and licensing, tender disputes, appellate tax litigation, environmental litigation etc.

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

The firm represents MSME clients in conciliation and arbitration proceedings under the MSME Act, in pursuing claims as creditors under the IBC framework, and in their regulatory litigation and commercial disputes.

Real Estate Development and Services

Real Estate Development and Services

The firm represents leading real estate developers, institutional investors and lenders to projects, and consumers of real estate services, in constitutional litigation, IBC proceedings, civil suits, commercial arbitration, and consumer actions.

Retail, Trading, and Logistics

Retail, Trading, and Logistics

We act for legacy retail conglomerates, online retail startups, wholesalers, and warehousing service providers and in commercial disputes and arbitration, regulatory mandates, civil and criminal actions, and IP litigation.

Technology

Technology

The firm represents technology clients in commercial disputes and arbitration, actions for protection of IP and enforcement of employment covenants, regulatory litigation, and in disputes involving intermediary status.

Transportation

Transportation

The firm acts for transportation service providers (including aggregators and technology intermediaries) in constitutional and regulatory mandates having sectoral implications, and in civil and commercial disputes involving questions of carrier liability.

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