Mohammed Shameer
Partner - Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, White-Collar Crime
Commercial Litigation | Arbitration | Real Estate Litigation | Labour and Employment Disputes | Criminal Law
Overview
Shameer is a Partner in Trilegal’s Dispute Resolution practice. His wide experience in dispute resolution extends to commercial litigation, arbitration, real estate litigation, labour and employment disputes and criminal law.
As an experienced arguing counsel, he regularly appears before various fora and provides end to end representation and advise to clients in different contentious situations. He has successfully defended and prosecuted arbitrations concerning breach and enforcement of contracts, construction disputes relating to large infrastructure and public utility projects, real estate disputes and employment disputes.
He has achieved favourable outcomes for numerous clients in white-collar disputes, including securing orders for property release, unfreezing bank accounts, granting bail, and quashing First Information Reports and Charge Sheets. He regularly advises corporate clients in criminal investigations and assists in prosecuting and defending criminal complaints which deal with offences relating to cybercrimes, data or IP theft, and economic offences.
Education
- Christ College of Law
Admissions
- Karnataka State Bar Council
Select representative clients/matters
- Representing Odisha Power Generation Corporation Ltd in an arbitration dispute concerning construction of a railway line by Larsen & Toubro
- Representing and advising Automattic INC. in a claim by Vyakti Vikas Kendra, India for defamation and breach of provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Intermediary Guidelines
- Representing Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Ltd in several litigations which raise important questions regarding the effect of the approval of a resolution plan under the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 on the claim of dissenting depositors
- Advised and represented a leading multinational for pursuing a criminal investigation in relation to a phishing attack on its servers based in India
- Appeared for a leading multinational company in investigations before the Cyber Crime Police Station and applications challenging action of police authorities in freezing bank accounts.
- Successfully represented NCR Corporation India Pvt Ltd in relation to applications for anticipatory bail
- Successfully represented Unocoin Technologies Pvt Ltd in relation to applications for anticipatory bail and during investigation by the CID
- Representing Amicorp Management India Pte. Ltd in an ongoing Criminal Investigation before the jurisdictional police and petitions filed before the Karnataka High Court for challenging the investigation by the police
