Lawyers

  • Apurva Lahoti

    Associate

    B.A , L.L.B

    apurvalahoti@astrealegal.com

    Expertise IT, Automobile, Tourism and Hospitality, Work Permit, Information and Due diligence, Employment, Contract, Custom, and import-export, Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Transaction Tax, Global Ta, Contracts law, Consumer law, Company law, Insolvency law, Intellectual Property lawx.

  • Somnath De

    Sr. Associate

    B.A.LLB (Hons.), DCL, C.C.I,C.F.I

    somnath@astrealegal.com

    Practices Cyber Laws,Internet Transaction, E-Commerce, Software and Computer Rights, Domain Dispute, Identity Theft,

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With the rapid advancement in the field of technology and the digital revolution of the Internet in India, working at the fingertip has become so popular and integral. This can be observed after the decrease in the prices of using the Internet as now using the internet has become very convenient for the users and this is one of the major reasons behind the revolution. E-commerce is one of the offshore concepts introduced with the advent of the Information and Technology industry. Certain legal issues are being faced by the IT industry which includes minors entering into contracts with help of online shopping, stamping of contracts, in a shrinkwrap or clickwrap contract the customers do not get an opportunity to negotiate with the terms, data privacy issues, infringement of copyright, trademark and patent also increases to a certain extent as the websites for e-commerce are made and maintained by third parties., obscene and harmful publication. We are a leading legal service provider to many multinational and domestic IT companies.

We advise our clients on cyber laws, Indian Information Technology laws, data protection, IP protection, e-commerce, etc. We serve as an internal legal team for many IT companies like ADB, Tieto, Getronics. We advise/ serve our clients in various matters of the IT industry including:

• Software protection & licensing

• Taxation issues

• Cyberlaw and crimes

• Information Technology related regulations and compliances

• Work Permits

• Employment related issues

• Data protection

• Domain names dispute resolution,

• Deal in website development and technical support agreements

• Drafting various agreements such as software license agreement, service provider agreement, inter-connect agreement, broadcasting, satellite agreement, and commercial agreements

• Intellectual Property Rights issue

• E-contracts 

• Deficiency in services

• Compensate and discontinue the Unfair Trade Practice