Biography: Real Estate

Mr Pasrich has extensive real-estate work experience covering a wide range of work in India and cross-border property acquisitions. His work has included commercial leasing, builder and development agreements, infrastructure contracts, collaboration agreements, flat and plot allotment standard builder documentation, sale deeds and agreements to sell, leave & license arrangements, land aggregation agreements, farm land acquisition documentation, due diligence covering properties in over 40 cities/towns in India, property and lease disputes, property agreements, finance documentation, title registration and perfection, advice on property tax and zoning representation for sealing and municipal law cases, zoning and misuse cases, writ proceedings against municipal authorities, mall management and service contracts etc. He has advised/represented several foreign governments (such as Canada, Australia, Greece and France), the delegation of the European Union, airlines like Air France/KLM, Delta, Finnair; other multi-nationals like EADS, Raisio/Ciba, Samsung, Dell; and Indian companies like Fabindia, Ashok Leyland and Crompton Greaves for corporate matters, litigation and/or real estate related documentation. He has successfully opposed sealing, land acquisition and service tax on rental of commercial property at the High Court and Supreme Court levels. He has appeared before the Supreme Court of India appointed monitoring committee for compliance with building bye-laws.

As managing partner of International Law Affiliates (ILA), he has overseen the growth of two sections of the firm that have handled real estate disputes and advisory work in 19 Indian states and documentation for 41 cities/towns across India. ILA has represented prestigious Indian companies and developers like the Ansal group for transactional work covering specialist real estate contracts, property leases and sale agreements/deeds, institutional and O&M agreements, standard format multiple-buyer agreements, turn-key project agreements, FDI and financing agreements, construction and development agreements, FDI and financing agreements, construction and development agreements, BOT contracts, multi-jurisdictional property disputes and conflicts, environmental approvals, anti-trust issues relating to a developer's conditions of contract, liability surrounding an accident at a public venue and a wide range of 'ordinary' real estate work.

Mr Pasrich co-authored the 2011 and 2012 real estate report for Getting the Deal Through and he was described by clients in the 2009 Chambers directory as 'extremely methodical and rigorous'. Mr Pasrich has over two dozen presentations/papers to his credit and continues to be a regular speaker at IBA conferences as a co-chair of an IBA committee. After a science degree from St Stephen's College, Delhi, he earned his law degree from Worcester College, Oxford University.

Other Practice Areas

Amir Z Singh Pasrich also features in the following practice areas:

• Franchise