Arjun Kant
Arjun Kant is a Partner and Co-founder of Clavius Legal. He maintains a broad commercial law practice, advising businesses on significant commercial decisions, their ongoing operations and the resolution of complex disputes. His experience spans corporate advisory and governance, employment, intellectual property and technology, real estate, arbitration, insolvency and cross-border enforcement.
Arjun acts for multinational corporations, established Indian businesses, high-growth enterprises, financial institutions, sovereign states and private clients. He works closely with founders, boards, senior management and in-house counsel, often providing continuing legal support across several aspects of a client’s business. His advice brings together the contractual, regulatory and contentious dimensions of a commercial problem, allowing clients to assess their options against both business priorities and the practical enforceability of their rights.
His corporate and advisory practice includes commercial contracting, governance and shareholder arrangements, workforce matters, intellectual property protection and regulatory compliance. He advises businesses in agriculture and fresh food, consumer products, financial services and technology, including leading emerging technology companies developing AI-enabled products and platforms. His work for these enterprises extends to the legal frameworks supporting growth, market entry, commercial partnerships and the protection and commercialisation of proprietary technology.
Arjun also advises institutional organisations on commercial arrangements involving governmental and public-sector stakeholders. His experience includes agricultural and livelihood-development projects requiring coordinated advice on funding, procurement, implementation responsibilities, regulatory obligations and contractual risk. This work complements his continuing advisory relationships with operating businesses, where legal questions frequently cut across commercial, employment, technology and governance functions.
Employment and labour law forms a substantial component of his business advisory practice. He advises employers on workforce documentation and policies, senior management arrangements, disciplinary processes, negotiated exits and employment disputes. His work also addresses the protection of confidential information, ownership of intellectual property and the management of legal and commercial exposure arising from employee mobility.
Alongside this advisory practice, Arjun represents clients in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, substantial land and property disputes, insolvency proceedings and cross-border enforcement matters. His experience includes litigation concerning valuable urban landholdings and hospitality assets, enforcement proceedings involving major financial claims, and asset-recovery proceedings on behalf of sovereign states. He represents clients before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, the National Company Law Tribunal, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and other judicial and statutory forums.
Before co-founding Clavius Legal, Arjun established and led Arkadian Legal. His professional background includes managing intellectual property portfolios for global brands and major corporations. He holds an LL.M. in Information Technology Law from Queen Mary University of London.
Expertise
- Advising founders, boards, senior management and in-house legal teams on significant commercial decisions, governance and the legal requirements of business operations.
- Providing continuing counsel to established businesses and high-growth enterprises across contracting, compliance, employment, intellectual property and dispute management.
- Structuring and negotiating supply, distribution, services, licensing and business collaboration arrangements.
- Advising on shareholder relationships, governance frameworks, internal policies and the allocation of commercial risk.
- Developing contractual arrangements for institutional and public-sector projects, including funding, procurement, implementation and accountability mechanisms.
- Advising businesses on workforce structures and the employment and consultancy arrangements supporting their operations and growth.
- Drafting and negotiating employment contracts, senior management terms, consultancy agreements, confidentiality obligations and intellectual property provisions.
- Developing employee handbooks, workplace policies and employment compliance frameworks.
- Advising management on employee misconduct, disciplinary proceedings, internal inquiries and workplace grievances.
- Handling termination, negotiated exits and separation arrangements, including disputes over contractual entitlements and continuing obligations.
- Advising on employee mobility and the protection of confidential information, proprietary technology and business relationships.
- Representing employers in employment disputes and developing strategies for their prevention and resolution.
- Advising emerging technology and AI companies on the commercial, intellectual property, data and regulatory issues affecting their products, platforms and operations.
- Structuring technology-transfer, licensing and commercialisation arrangements, including those supporting expansion into India.
- Advising on intellectual property ownership and protection across employment, consultancy, development and commercial agreements.
- Managing trademark, copyright and other intellectual property portfolios, and advising on enforcement and disputes.
- Addressing data privacy, confidentiality and contractual risk in technology-driven business relationships.
- Supporting technology and fintech businesses on digital platform and regulatory requirements.
- Representing clients in complex contractual, corporate, shareholder and commercial disputes.
- Advising on disputes strategy, interim protection and the coordination of proceedings involving assets or parties in different jurisdictions.
- Conducting arbitration and related court proceedings, including challenges to awards and enforcement.
- Acting in proceedings for the recognition, execution and enforcement of judgments, decrees and arbitral awards.
- Advising sovereign states, institutional clients and private clients on asset recovery and the enforcement of substantial financial claims.
- Representing landowners and businesses in substantial acquisition disputes, compensation claims and enhancement proceedings.
- Handling litigation involving title, possession, agricultural-land regulation, mortgage enforcement and succession.
- Advising on disputes concerning valuable landholdings, commercial properties and hospitality assets.
- Coordinating property litigation with related regulatory, financing, insolvency and enforcement issues.
- Advising and representing creditors, businesses, homebuyers and other stakeholders in insolvency and recovery proceedings.
- Acting before the National Company Law Tribunal and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.
- Assessing recovery options across contractual claims, arbitration, insolvency and execution proceedings.
- Protecting clients’ financial and contractual interests in distressed real estate and commercial matters.
Recommended Lawyer
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2025-2026
Future Star
Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, 2026
Notable Practitioner
asialaw, 2025-2026
- Representing landowners in substantial land-acquisition litigation concerning a valuable parcel in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex, including proceedings before the Supreme Court of India.
- Representing overseas private clients in litigation concerning extensive landholdings in Telangana, involving overlapping questions of title, agricultural-land regulation, mortgage enforcement and succession.
- Acting in disputes concerning a major hospitality asset in New Delhi.
- Representing a private client in complex cross-border enforcement proceedings involving India and the United Kingdom.
- Acting for a leading American multinational investment bank in proceedings to enforce a substantial decree.
- Acting as part of the firm’s team representing a sovereign state before the Delhi High Court in proceedings concerning the tracing and recovery of assets connected with fraud.
- Advising a national agricultural cooperative institution on commercial and project arrangements concerning agricultural commodities and livelihood-development initiatives, including project funding, procurement, implementation responsibilities, indemnities and dispute resolution.
- Providing continuing commercial advisory support to businesses in the fresh-produce and agri-food sectors.
- Advising emerging technology and AI enterprises on commercial arrangements, intellectual property, data privacy and regulatory compliance.
- Structuring intellectual property licensing and technology-transfer arrangements for an AI business expanding into India.
- Representing homebuyers in arbitration against real estate developers and advising on related insolvency, recovery and enforcement remedies.
- Representing an individual before the Supreme Court of India in proceedings involving allegations of criminal conspiracy and real estate fraud.
- Bar Council of Delhi
- Delhi High Court Bar Association
- Supreme Court Bar Association
- B.A. LL.B., Symbiosis University
- LL.M. in Information Technology Law, Queen Mary University of London