When was Sagar & Sagar Law Offices established?

The firm has been in continuous legal practice since 2000, when it was founded by Advocate Rajeev Sagar and Advocate Sanjeev Sagar. It has grown from a Delhi practice into a nationally active firm with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and other centres, and advocates appearing across India's principal courts and tribunals.

The firm is led by its two founding partners. Advocate Rajeev Sagar is the founding and managing partner. Advocate Sanjeev Sagar, also a founding partner, was designated a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Delhi in November 2024 and focuses on senior counsel responsibilities in complex and appellate matters.

What does it mean that the firm has Senior Advocate leadership?

Designation as a Senior Advocate is conferred by a High Court or the Supreme Court in recognition of an advocate's ability and standing at the Bar, and is among the highest recognitions in the Indian legal profession. A firm with a Senior Advocate among its founders has that seniority available to its most complex and appellate matters, which relatively few firms of this kind do.

What areas of law does the firm practise?

The firm practises across banking and financial law, debt recovery, insolvency, white collar and financial crime defence, corporate and commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution, arbitration, consumer protection, regulatory compliance, and related areas, together with international services and legal process outsourcing. The full range is set out on the Services pages.

Where are the firm's offices?

The firm's principal office is at 18 Hargobind Enclave, Bhartendu Harish Chandra Marg, New Delhi, with a chamber at the Delhi High Court and further offices including South Delhi and Mumbai. It operates through advocates and associated counsel in other major Indian cities. Full contact details are on the Contact page.

Does the firm work with international clients?

The firm facilitates cross-border legal work and provides legal process outsourcing services to law firms and legal departments in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, the UAE and other jurisdictions, anchored in India-trained legal analysis. Enquiries from international clients are handled through the firm's Global Desk, described on the Contact and LPO pages.

About the Firm

Sagar & Sagar Law Offices is a New Delhi–based law firm established in 2000, practising across banking and financial law, corporate and commercial law, insolvency, civil litigation, consumer protection and regulatory compliance. Founded by Advocate Rajeev Sagar and Advocate Sanjeev Sagar, the firm acts for banks, financial institutions, non-banking financial companies, asset reconstruction companies, public sector undertakings, insurers and corporate clients before the Supreme Court of India, the High Courts, and the principal tribunals and commissions across the country. One of the founding partners, Sanjeev Sagar, was designated a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Delhi in November 2024.

The firm

Sagar & Sagar Law Offices has been in continuous practice since 2000. What began as a Delhi practice has grown into a nationally active firm, with advocates appearing across India's principal judicial and quasi-judicial forums and offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and elsewhere.

The firm's work is organised around the legal frameworks that govern India's banking system, its financial institutions and its commercial relationships. This gives clients continuity of counsel across the lifecycle of a matter — from regulatory and transactional advice, through litigation and enforcement, to appellate proceedings — rather than requiring separate advisers at each stage. The firm acts both in contentious matters, before courts and tribunals, and in advisory and transactional work.

The practice is led by its two founding partners and supported by a team of advocates and legal professionals operating across India. The firm's approach across all of its work is to build the record at the earliest stage — in documentation, in the first response to a notice, and in pleadings — on the footing that it will be tested later on appeal, in adjudication or in enforcement.

Leadership

The firm was founded by, and continues to be led by, two advocates.

Advocate Rajeev Sagar

Founding & Managing Partner

Rajeev Sagar is the founding and managing partner of the firm and has been in practice since 2000. He leads the firm's practice and its most significant mandates, and appears before the Supreme Court of India, the High Courts, and a range of tribunals and commissions. His practice covers banking and financial litigation, insolvency, consumer, corporate and civil matters.

Senior Advocate Sanjeev Sagar

Founding Partner

Sanjeev Sagar, a founding partner of the firm, was designated a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Delhi in November 2024 — a distinction conferred by the Court in recognition of ability and standing at the Bar, and one of the highest recognitions available within the Indian legal profession. He was instrumental in establishing the firm's identity in banking, corporate and civil law, and now focuses on senior counsel responsibilities in complex, high-value and appellate matters.

The presence of Senior Advocate leadership within the firm is a distinction held by relatively few firms of its kind, and reflects the depth of the firm's involvement in complex and appellate litigation.

What the firm does

The firm provides representation, advisory and compliance services across the principal areas of banking and financial law, corporate and commercial law, insolvency, civil litigation, consumer protection and regulatory compliance. Its practice areas, each set out in detail on the Services pages, include: Services pages.

Banking, Finance & Debt Recovery — SARFAESI enforcement, DRT and DRAT proceedings, recovery, security documentation and title work
Insolvency & Bankruptcy (IBC) — proceedings before the NCLT and NCLAT for creditors, debtors and other stakeholders
White Collar & Financial Crime Defence — PMLA, Enforcement Directorate, FEMA and economic offence matters
Corporate, M&A & Commercial Law — transactions, governance and commercial documentation
Litigation & Dispute Resolution — civil, commercial, constitutional and appellate proceedings
Arbitration & ADR — domestic and international arbitration and award enforcement
Consumer, Regulatory & Compliance — proceedings before consumer commissions and regulatory authorities
International Services & LPO — India-anchored support for law firms and legal departments abroad

The firm also facilitates cross-border matters and negotiations requiring depth in Indian law, and supports clients whose legal exposure spans multiple states through its offices and associated counsel across India.

Empanelment with banks and financial institutions

Empanelment with a bank or financial institution represents a formal approval by that institution's competent legal authority — typically its law department or general management — following a structured evaluation of an advocate's qualifications, experience, court coverage and professional conduct. It is distinct from routine client engagement and reflects an institution's assessment of an advocate's sustained capability to handle its legal work.

Sagar & Sagar Law Offices is institutionally empanelled with several of India's major public sector banks, private sector banks, housing finance companies and financial institutions, for the conduct of litigation, SARFAESI enforcement, DRT proceedings, recovery suits, legal opinions and related work. This standing reflects the firm's established position within India's banking and financial legal ecosystem.

Forums

The firm regularly appears before, among other forums:

The Supreme Court of India
The High Court of Delhi and the High Court of Punjab & Haryana
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT)
The Appellate Tribunal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)
Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRT) and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal (DRAT)
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) and State and District Consumer Commissions
District Courts and Commercial Courts across India

Offices and reach

Primary jurisdiction — New Delhi and NCR.

The firm's principal office is in New Delhi, with a dedicated working chamber at the Delhi High Court. New Delhi is home to the Supreme Court of India, the Principal Benches of the NCLT and NCLAT, the PMLA Appellate Tribunal, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, the Debt Recovery Tribunals at Delhi, and the High Court of Delhi — all of which the firm regularly appears before. The chamber at Chamber No. 210, Block-III, Delhi High Court enables immediate access to the Court's filing registry, division benches and hearing schedules.

Extended national coverage.

The firm operates through its advocates and associated counsel in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Lucknow, Chandigarh (within the jurisdiction of the Punjab & Haryana High Court) and other major Indian cities, and has extended its office presence to Mumbai, South Delhi, Noida and other centres. This network enables coordinated handling of banking litigation, SARFAESI enforcement, insolvency proceedings and consumer forum work across jurisdictions without fragmentation of legal oversight, and supports client representation on a pan-India basis.

Cross-border and international.

For institutional and corporate clients with cross-border requirements, the firm facilitates legal process outsourcing (LPO) work for law firms and legal departments in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore and the UAE, encompassing contract review, legal research, document review and drafting support executed by India-trained legal professionals familiar with both common law and Indian legal frameworks. This work is described in detail on the LPO Services page.

Research and technology

The firm maintains access to leading legal research databases, including Manupatra and SCC Online, and is equipped for video-conferencing for virtual hearings, client consultations and multi-jurisdictional coordination. The firm integrates these tools into its core functions, so that research, filing and coordination across offices and forums are conducted efficiently and consistently.

How the firm works

Discretion.

The firm's work, particularly in financial crime, private client and sensitive corporate matters, is conducted on the footing that the fact of a matter is itself confidential.

Continuity across connected practice areas.

Banking enforcement, insolvency and financial crime frequently arise from the same set of facts. Because these areas are practised together within the firm, a matter can be handled coherently across the different frameworks and forums it engages.

Advisory and contentious work under one roof.

The frameworks the firm advises on are the same frameworks it litigates, so documentation is drafted with the dispute it may generate in view, and contentious work is informed by how the underlying arrangements were structured.

Involvement from negotiation onward.

The firm's involvement in a matter often begins at the negotiation and documentation stage and continues through to any proceedings that follow, rather than commencing only once a dispute has arisen.

Frequently asked questions

When was Sagar & Sagar Law Offices established?: The firm has been in continuous legal practice since 2000, when it was founded by Advocate Rajeev Sagar and Advocate Sanjeev Sagar. It has grown from a Delhi practice into a nationally active firm with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and other centres, and advocates appearing across India's principal courts and tribunals.
Who leads the firm?: The firm is led by its two founding partners. Advocate Rajeev Sagar is the founding and managing partner. Advocate Sanjeev Sagar, also a founding partner, was designated a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Delhi in November 2024 and focuses on senior counsel responsibilities in complex and appellate matters.
What does it mean that the firm has Senior Advocate leadership?: Designation as a Senior Advocate is conferred by a High Court or the Supreme Court in recognition of an advocate's ability and standing at the Bar, and is among the highest recognitions in the Indian legal profession. A firm with a Senior Advocate among its founders has that seniority available to its most complex and appellate matters, which relatively few firms of this kind do.
What areas of law does the firm practise?: The firm practises across banking and financial law, debt recovery, insolvency, white collar and financial crime defence, corporate and commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution, arbitration, consumer protection, regulatory compliance, and related areas, together with international services and legal process outsourcing. The full range is set out on the Services pages.
Where are the firm's offices?: The firm's principal office is at 18 Hargobind Enclave, Bhartendu Harish Chandra Marg, New Delhi, with a chamber at the Delhi High Court and further offices including South Delhi and Mumbai. It operates through advocates and associated counsel in other major Indian cities. Full contact details are on the Contact page.
Does the firm work with international clients?: The firm facilitates cross-border legal work and provides legal process outsourcing services to law firms and legal departments in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, the UAE and other jurisdictions, anchored in India-trained legal analysis. Enquiries from international clients are handled through the firm's Global Desk, described on the Contact and LPO pages.

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