• Advised a leading international construction materials firm on every phase of an IPO for its Nepalese subsidiary, along with a subsequent NEPSE listing.
• Secured three important judgments for Nepal Water and Energy Development Company (NWEDC) in connection with its Upper Trishuli- 1 (216 MW) hydropower project that is financed by nine international banks including the IFC and ADB:
  • Successfully stayed and dismissed the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse and Authority’s termination of NWEDC’s survey license (on grounds of legitimacy and validity) in the Supreme Court.
  • Dismissed two Public Interest Litigations in the Supreme Court that challenged the validity of NWEDC’s licenses on various grounds including environmental survey inadequacy and incapability to deliver.
• Separately advised the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (telecommunications regulator) as well as a top telecommunications service operator on various network/distribution agreements, financing (debt and equity) contracts, consumer agreements, operation and management agreements, applicable regulation, and breach of contract litigation. 
• Successfully represented a leading infrastructure firm in the Supreme Court by invalidating an international bidding process and a subsequently issued license for a large telecommunications project on grounds of non-compliance with the Public Procurement Act 2063 (BS) and the associated Public Procurement Rules 2064 (BS).
• Advised Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press on securing products against piracy and copyright infringement in Nepal.
• Advised a leading beverages company on the corporate, commercial, intellectual property and taxation issues of entering into a joint venture agreement with an international distributor.
• In one of the major FDI deals in Nepal, we advised the Nick Simons Institute on transferring funds into Nepal through FDI on a recurring basis to finance its philanthropic healthcare goals in Nepal.
• Advised a top property developer on the acquisition of land, building permits, debt and equity financing, and consumer contracts in one of the first major residential property development projects in Nepal.
• Advised a top conglomerate on several first-of-a-kind transactions including international automobile dealership contracts, asset-based financing, purchase and lease of international goods and equipment, licensing of intellectual property, and financing options for consumers.
• Advised a leading construction firm on the corporate, commercial, intellectual property and tax aspects of entering into a joint venture agreement with another construction company to build an assigned project and bid for another lucrative project.
• Represented an association of leading private organisations in the High Court to stay further action from government agencies that would inhibit business in the Pashupati area in a highly sensitive and complex matter.
• Advised a top conglomerate on one of the largest Nepalese contracts for the purchase and sale of fertilisers and related structured financing agreements.
• In several first-of-a-kind deals, represented a top music label and distributor in the registration, licensing, and purchase of literary, musical, and film intellectual property rights.
• Advised a major international film company on the sale of some of its film rights and licensing of its trademark to Nepalese distributors.
• Obtained numerous stay orders (accumulating to over 5 years) in a seemingly hopeless situation where following the default of a loan, a leading bank treated realty as a Non- Banking Asset and asked to vacate the property under the loan recovery process.
• Advised a leading consumer goods firm on entering into multiple international agency contracts and successfully defended the firm in an implied authority dispute in the Supreme Court.
• Acted for a top businessman to secure his release from custody on a favourable cash bail in a highly politicised fraud charge.
• Advised a foreign insolvency professional regarding the enforcement of a foreign liquidation judgment against a company and individual’s Nepalese assets following foreign involuntary insolvency proceedings.
• Advised a leading residential housing developer in the course of preparing a creditor-approved restructuring plan involving liquidity issues arising out of a construction project.
• Successfully defended a large recycling company in the High Court from a vicarious liability claim stemming from an employee’s road accident.
• We successfully defended a leading foods and beverages company, pharmaceuticals firm and schools from several unfair dismissal claim in the Labour Court and successfully secured compensation for theft/other misconduct conducted during employment.
• Advised a leading technology firm in relation to international contracts for website hosting and bandwidth agreements.
• Represented a leading consumer goods firm in the Supreme Court to enforce liens and charges emanating from different contracts with the same counterparty, forming a landmark judgment.
• Successfully represented several leading businessmen in complex shareholder-company disputes in the Supreme Court and High Court including joint venture agreement disputes, minority shareholder rights, challenging corporate/director decisions, and enforcement of company’s articles.
• Advised leading insurance companies on the drafting of complex personal and commercial insurance and successfully represented insurance firms and beneficiaries in insurance claims in the appellate courts.

• Successfully represented the then Deputy Prime Minister, Cabinet Minister, and A-class civil servant in the first three landmark cases involving offences under the PoCA 2059 (2002 AD) in the Special Court and Supreme Court that clarified the scope of corruption, bribery, and disproportionate property. Set the record for the longest trail and cross-examination in the Supreme Court, with one of the cross-examinations lasting 45 days.
• Represented top Ministers, leading businessmen, and A-class civil servants in corruption, bribery, money laundering, tax evasion, and disproportionate property charges in the Supreme Court and Special courts in several events of public interest, including:
  • Sudan APC purchase scandal,
  • Nepal Airlines Corporation’s top executive’s disproportionate property scandal,
  • Cooperative Finance issue (represented the claimants),
  • Nepalese infamous Land Scam.
• Successfully represented the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority on an important jurisdictional question in the Supreme Court, which enabled the levying of the highest financial crime penalty at the time on the accused.

• Secured three important judgments for Nepal Water and Energy Development Company (NWEDC) in connection with its Upper Trishuli- 1 (216 MW) hydropower project that is financed by nine international banks including the IFC and ADB:
  • Successfully stayed and dismissed the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse and Authority’s termination of NWEDC’s survey license (on grounds of legitimacy and validity) in the Supreme Court.
  • Dismissed two Public Interest Litigations in the Supreme Court that challenged the validity of NWEDC’s licenses on various grounds including environmental survey inadequacy and incapability to deliver.
• Successfully represented a leading infrastructure firm in the Supreme Court by invalidating an international bidding process and associated license for a large telecommunications project on grounds of non-compliance with the Public Procurement Act 2063 (BS) and the associated Public Procurement Rules 2064 (BS).
• Successfully represented the office of the President of Nepal in the Supreme Court by dismissing a writ challenging the removal of a Nepal Army Chief from office.
• He has been involved in defending Prime Ministers for dissolving Parliament on two occasions:
  • Represented then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in the Supreme Court (Constitutional Bench) to defend a constitutional challenge following a parliamentary dissolution in December 2020.
  • He was actively involved (out of court) in creating legal arguments and strategies to help defend then Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari’s dissolution of parliament in 1995/96.
• Successfully represented the then Deputy Prime Minister, Cabinet Minister, and A-class civil servant in the first three landmark cases involving offences under the PoCA 2059 (2002 AD) in the Special Court and Supreme Court that clarified the scope of corruption, bribery, and disproportionate property.
• Setting a record at the Supreme Court, successfully reinstated the employment of a wrongfully dismissed government employee who was dismissed eighteen years Defeated a laches claim and established a writ jurisdiction precedent.
• Represented an association of leading private organisations in the High Court to stay further action from government agencies that would inhibit business in the Pashupati area in a highly sensitive and complex matter.
• Establishing an important precedent, acted for a top Nepalese conglomerate and successfully obtained an injunction from the Nepalese Supreme Court to block a multijurisdictional SWIFT payment (under a letter of credit) 24 hours before payment was due, applying national and international laws and customs including the UCP 600.
• Successfully represented a leading consumer foods company in the Supreme Court in a trademark infringement and passing-off claim.
• In a landmark tax case, successfully issued a writ petition in the Supreme Court that quashed the Tax Tribunal’s decision to disallow certain disputed corporate tax and excise duty tax exemptions and tax holidays.
• Acted for a top businessman to secure his release from custody on a favourable cash bail in a highly politicised fraud charge.
• Successfully obtained numerous stay orders (accumulating to over 5 years) in a seemingly hopeless situation where following the default of a loan, a leading bank treated realty as a Non-Banking Asset and asked to vacate the property under the loan recovery process.
• Successfully quashed a government agency decision that was indirectly discriminatory towards private institutions in the Supreme Court.
• Successfully represented a leading moviestar by obtaining a prohibitory order against further police involvement and securing his removal from custody in an excess of jurisdiction case.
• Successful represented the accused in a landmark marital rape case in the Supreme Court involving substantial cross examination, which clarified the scope and interpretation of
• Represented an innocent agent in a human trafficking charge in the High Court, clarifying the reliability and admissibility of expert evidence and witness statements.

ADR:

• Successfully represented international shareholders and beneficiaries in a NEPCA arbitration involving a substantial property (realty and shares) dispute.
• Represented major hydropower projects sponsor in a FREEDEAL arbitration against developers in a dispute regarding construction failures.
• Acted as Chief arbitrator in a multijurisdictional FREEDEAL arbitration claim involving substantial unpaid debt.
• Mediated to avoid litigation and settled a substantial contractual dispute at favourable terms for an international client.
• Advised a leading construction firm in relation to an expert determination involving valuation of the cost of project delays.

• He has been involved in defending Prime Ministers for dissolving Parliament on two occasions:
• • Represented then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in the Supreme Court (Constitutional Bench) to defend a constitutional challenge following a parliamentary dissolution in December 2020.
  • He was actively involved (out of court) in creating legal arguments and strategies to help defend then Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari’s dissolution of parliament in 1995/96.
• Secured three important judgments for Nepal Water and Energy Development Company (NWEDC) in connection with its Upper Trishuli- 1 (216 MW) hydropower project that is financed by nine international banks including the IFC and ADB:
  • • Successfully stayed and dismissed the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse and Authority’s termination of NWEDC’s survey license (on grounds of legitimacy and validity) in the Supreme Court.
    • Dismissed two Public Interest Litigations in the Supreme Court that challenged the validity of NWEDC’s licenses on various grounds including environmental survey inadequacy and incapability to deliver.
• Successfully represented a leading infrastructure firm in the Supreme Court by invalidating an international bidding process and a subsequently issued license for a large telecommunications project on grounds of non-compliance with the Public Procurement Act 2063 (BS) and the associated Public Procurement Rules 2064 (BS).
• Represented an association of leading private organisations in the High Court to stay further action from government agencies that would inhibit business in the Pashupati area in a highly sensitive and complex matter.
• Successfully represented a leading moviestar by obtaining a prohibitory order against further police involvement and securing his removal from custody in an excess of jurisdiction case.
• Successfully represented a leading business group to quash a governmental agency’s decision that had erroneously failed to consider environmental effects.
• Successfully quashed a government agency decision that was indirectly discriminatory towards private institutions in the Supreme Court.

• Successfully represented an international construction material company in the Supreme Court to stay and quash an erroneous calculation of income tax and excise duties, clarifying the scope of relevant taxable exemptions.
• Successfully represented a top conglomerate in the Supreme Court to quash the non-applicability of corporate tax rebates and exemptions in a politically sensitive and legally complex case, qualifying the scope of certain corporate tax rebates.
• Represented a top beverage company in the Supreme Court to stay and quash erroneously calculated customs, excise, and capital gains tax.
• Successfully represented a leading food and beverages company in the Supreme Court to quash the non-applicability of excise and customs duty exemptions, clarifying the scope of the exemption. Also prevented the arrest of a company director for tax evasion.
• Represented a leading asset manager in the Tax Tribunal to quash the Inland Revenue Department’s erroneous non-application of corporate tax and capital gains tax holidays and exemptions.
• Represented a leading consumer foods conglomerate to successfully quash the Inland Revenue Department’s erroneously calculated withholding tax.

• Advised a leading international construction materials firm on every phase of an IPO for its Nepalese subsidiary, along with a subsequent NEPSE listing.
• Advised an international bank on all aspects of its acquisition of a Nepalese bank, entering into joint ventures, loan documentation, and the regulation surrounding BFIs and loan recovery.
• Establishing an important precedent, acted for a top Nepalese conglomerate and successfully obtained an injunction from the Nepalese Supreme Court to block a multijurisdictional SWIFT payment (under a letter of credit) 24 hours before payment was due, applying national and international laws and customs including the UCP 600.
• Successfully obtained numerous stay orders (accumulating to over 5 years) in a seemingly hopeless situation where following the default of a loan, a leading bank treated realty as a Non- Banking Asset and asked to vacate the property under the loan recovery process.
• Advised a top conglomerate on one of the largest Nepalese contracts for the purchase and sale of fertilisers and related structured financing agreements.
• Advised a top conglomerate on several first-of-a-kind transactions including international automobile dealership contracts, asset-based financing, purchase and lease of international goods and equipment, licensing of intellectual property, and financing options for consumers.
• Advised a top telecommunications service provider on various network/distribution agreements, financing (debt and equity) contracts, consumer agreements, operation and management agreements, applicable regulation, and breach of contract litigation.
• Advised a top property developer on the acquisition of land, building permits, debt and equity financing, and consumer contracts in one of the first major residential property development projects in Nepal.
• Represented a leading consumer goods firm in the Supreme Court to enforce liens and charges emanating from different contracts with the same counterparty, forming a landmark judgment.
• Represented several leading companies and businessmen in the High Court and Supreme Court to successfully establish or defend criminal and civil liability stemming from the dishonour of cheques.
• Advised the leading insurance companies on the drafting of complex personal and commercial insurance. We also have a record of successfully representing insurance firms and beneficiaries in insurance claims in the appellate courts.

• In one of the major FDI deals in Nepal, he advised the Nick Simons Institute on transferring funds into Nepal through FDI on a recurring basis to finance its philanthropic healthcare goals in Nepal.
• Advised a leading beverages company on the corporate, commercial, intellectual property and taxation issues of entering into a joint venture agreement with a renowned international distributor.
• Advised a leading construction firm on the corporate, commercial, intellectual property and tax aspects of entering into a joint venture agreement with another construction company to build an assigned project and bid for another lucrative project.
• Advised a top international conglomerate on utilising the FDI route to finance its subsidiary and firmly further business in Nepal.
• Advised an international construction materials company on funding its Nepalese subsidiary through FDI.
• Advised a top telecommunications company by establishing a long-term contractual method to transfer funds into Nepal through FDI for market expansion and acquisitions. This deal was the first-of-its-kind.
• We advised a leading food and beverages firm on financing its Nepalese operations through FDI.
• We advised several mutual and venture funds on the regulatory landscape for funds including aspects of tax, corporate, employment and intellectual property law.

• Advised Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press in relation to securing copyrighted products against piracy and copyright infringement in Nepal.
• In several first-of-a-kind deals, represented a top music label and distributor in the registration, licensing, and purchase of literary, musical, and film intellectual property rights.
• Advised a major international film company on the sale of some of its film rights and licensing of its trademark to Nepalese distributors.
• Represented a leading film production company on the sale of its film rights to distributors and licensing of its trademark.
• Successfully represented a leading consumer foods company in the Supreme Court in a trademark infringement and passing-off claim.
• Advised a leading beverages company on the corporate, commercial, intellectual property and taxation issues of entering into a joint venture agreement with a renowned international distributor.
• Advised a leading construction firm on the corporate, commercial, intellectual property and tax aspects of entering into a joint venture agreement with another construction company to build an assigned project and bid for another lucrative project.

• Secured the acquittal of the accused in a landmark marital rape case in the Supreme Court involving substantial cross examination, which clarified the scope and interpretation of consent.
• Secured the acquittal of an innocent agent in a human trafficking charge in the High Court, clarifying the reliability and admissibility of expert evidence and witness statements.
• Represented a top actor in the High Court in a highly followed defamation claim.
• Defended a medical practitioner against a medical negligence allegation in the High Court, establishing a precedent in the law of professional negligence.
• Secured the acquittal of the accused in a drug trafficking and abuse charge in the High Court.
• Successfully defended a leading foods and beverages company from an unfair dismissal and restrictive covenant claim in the Labour Court and successfully secured compensation for theft conducted during employment.
• Successfully represented a leading moviestar by obtaining a prohibitory order against further police involvement and securing his removal from custody in an excess of jurisdiction case.
• Acted for a top businessman to secure his release from custody on a favourable cash bail in a highly politicised fraud charge.

• Advised a foreign insolvency professional regarding the enforcement of a foreign liquidation judgment against a company and individual’s Nepalese assets following foreign involuntary insolvency proceedings.
• Advised a leading residential housing developer in the course of preparing a creditor-approved restructuring plan involving liquidity issues arising out of a construction project.
• Advised a top conglomerate on the law of involuntary and voluntary insolvency proceedings and available next steps.
• Represented a financial services firm approaching insolvency on voidable transactions (including preferential transactions), restructuring schemes and voluntary liquidation.

• Advised a top conglomerate on the drafting of service contracts, employment contracts, employee fund formation and termination contracts for the appointment of directors and top executives.
• Successfully defended a large recycling company in the High Court from a vicarious liability claim stemming from an employee’s road accident.
• Successfully defended a leading foods and beverages company from an unfair dismissal and restrictive covenant claim in the Labour Court and successfully secured compensation for theft conducted during employment.
• Setting a record at the Supreme Court, successfully reinstated the employment of a wrongfully dismissed government employee who was dismissed eighteen years earlier. We defeated a laches claim and established a writ jurisdiction precedent.
• Successfully represented an employee of an international pharmaceuticals company in the Supreme Court by establishing an unfair dismissal claim and reinstating employment in the company’s Nepalese branch.

• Advised several NRNs and their families on sale and purchase of assets (realty and shares), succession planning, Nepali citizenship issues, taxation of worldwide assets and income, and asset distribution following divorce.