Civil Litigation

Trusted Counsel for Complex Civil Disputes

Keystone Partners represents individuals, families, businesses, trusts, charities, and religious institutions in a wide range of civil disputes – from contested questions of title, possession, and succession, to property transactions, tortious claims, and enforcement actions. Our team appears before civil courts at all levels, including trial and appellate courts, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India, and has experience handling civil proceedings across multiple jurisdictions across India. We bring to civil litigation the same rigour and strategic focus that defines our broader disputes practice – combining careful preparation of facts and evidence with a clear-eyed assessment of the most efficient path to resolution.

Service overview

Proven Experience, Outstanding Results

We provide end-to-end civil litigation services that cover every aspect of the dispute resolution process. Our offerings include:

Title, Possession and Property
We act for parties in civil suits concerning disputed ownership of real property, adverse possession claims, partition of estates, and recovery of possession.
We represent clients in civil proceedings involving disputed wills, intestate succession, and partition of ancestral and joint family property, drawing on our understanding of personal laws and applicable succession statutes.
We advise on and prosecute execution proceedings for the enforcement of civil court decrees, including attachment and sale of assets.
We act for clients in prosecuting claims / defending their rights in actions under various special enactments, including state-level Inam Abolition Acts, the Wakfs Act, acts dealing with eviction of unauthorised occupants of public premises, and so on.

Representative experience

Representing a Singapore-based listed education company in proceedings under Section 92 of the Civil Procedure Code for restructuring governance in a not-for-profit educational venture
Successfully represented a private automobiles manufacturer in prosecuting claims for grant of occupancy rights in relation to its lands in central Bengaluru, under the Mysore Religious and Charitable Inams Abolition Act
Representing the heirs of the owner of a high value Mumbai residential apartment in proceedings before the Supreme Court seeking eviction of a tenant, under the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act
Defending a public charitable trust in various proceedings instituted by family members of the trust’s original settlor seeking partition of lands worth crores in Bengaluru city, before the City Civil Court, Bengaluru and the Karnataka High Court
Successfully represented the donor-trustee of a prominent Bengaluru-based educational trust operating 9 reputed colleges, in litigation for control of the trust before the Supreme Court of India
Advising and representing three aviation leasing companies in an execution petition before the High Court of Delhi against a major Indian airline for enforcement of a foreign decree (value USD 28 million)
Acting for real estate developers and corporate investors in property and slum rehabilitation disputes before the Bombay High Court and City Civil Court

news & insights

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