Expert advice, robust representation specialist advocacy

We are one of the few Indian law firms with dual-qualified UK-Indian lawyers fully qualified to practice in English courts. Our Barristers, with over 20 years of advocacy and litigation experience, are fully regulated by the Bar Council of England and Wales and can provide direct advice and representation.

Our international expert legal advice, support, and advocacy are available in all areas of International, UK abd Indian arbitration, dispute resolution, litigation, regulation, and dispute resolution.

UK Litigation: Our barristers have represented company, commercial and private clients, in litigation before the English Courts, covering chancery and commercial, civil, and criminal matters.

English laws: For Indian companies and individuals setting up, working, or doing business in the UK, we advise on a broad range of matters including UK Company and Business laws, immigration, taxation, company formation, cross-border contracts, litigation before English courts.

Services for Other Lawyers and Law Firms: We offer a tailored service for a broad range of clients. Our specialist Indian legal services for professional clients include corporate law firms, solicitors, barristers’ chambers, in-house legal departments and counsel, governments, and local authorities. Our strength lies in our cross-border and multi-jurisdictional approach.

Our team of Indian lawyers, including barristers and solicitors, works closely with other lawyers, experts, accountants, and corporate in-house teams focusing on domestic and international matters, transactions, and disputes. We offer a unique service to law firms based in both India and abroad, requiring the services of a law firm in another jurisdiction. For example, seeking disclosure and discovery for litigation, matrimonial, or immigration disputes where one of the parties is based or has a financial interest in either India or the United Kingdom.

We regularly accept instructions from English solicitors for work undertaken in India, including tracing and procuring witnesses where prior authority funding has been approved by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) in criminal and civil proceedings. Our litigation and advocacy experience in the courts of England and Wales and India gives us a unique advantage in understanding and delivering what professional clients in the UK expect from an Indian law firm. Lex Meridian understands the complexities of cross-border litigation. We have unique experience, perhaps unrivalled, in matters involving interfaces between English and Indian laws.

We provide the following services: 

• Investigation & Litigation Support Services:Evidence gathering and investigations in India
• Witness tracing.
• Witness statement recording -  statements of fact and witness statements for use in English commercial and criminal cases. These include acting on behalf of solicitors when obtaining evidence pursuant to Legal Services Commission, a prior authority funding arrangements. 
• Video-link evidence -  evidence remotely from India via live link and video conferencing. 
• Obtaining court orders, injunctions and judicial records for use in proceedings in England and Wales.
• Asset tracing: