Boutique law firm · New Delhi
Counsel for India’s most demanding regulatory mandates.
Incept Legal is a boutique law firm in New Delhi. Our partners specialise in regulatory law and practise before the Supreme Court of India, the High Courts across the country and the specialist tribunals, with expertise across diverse practice areas and sectors.
Built for matters that are argued, not just advised on.
Incept Legal is a boutique law firm in New Delhi. Our partners practise before the Supreme Court of India, the High Courts across the country and the specialist tribunals and commissions, and are Advocates-on-Record of the Supreme Court.
Our partners advise corporates, public sector undertakings, government organisations, banks and insurers — in regulatory proceedings, company law and insolvency, arbitration and commercial disputes, and on the compliance obligations that now reach every board.
03 — Regulatory practice
Electricity law is
a jurisdiction of
its own.
Its own tribunal, its own commissions, its own settled body of tariff law — and a bench of counsel who appear in it week after week rather than once a year. Power and energy regulation is a specialism our partners are known for.
Our partners advise State distribution companies, private generators, transmission utilities and industrial consumers, from the tariff petition through to the civil appeal in the Supreme Court.
01
Tariff & true-up
Determination, review and true-up petitions before the Central and State commissions, and the appeals that follow them.
02
PPA disputes
Power purchase agreement claims, including change in law and force majeure — the questions that decide a project’s economics.
03
APTEL appeals
Appeals before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, and statutory appeals onward to the Supreme Court of India.
04
Open access & RPO
Open access, wheeling, banking and cross-subsidy surcharge disputes, and renewable purchase obligation compliance.
Forums our partners appear before
04 — Need of the hour
Four codes.
Twenty-nine laws
replaced.
India’s four labour codes came into force in November 2025, consolidating twenty-nine central statutes and changing what an employer owes almost every person on its payroll. Every corporate and multinational operating here is affected, and most have not yet quantified it.
For most employers the cost sits in a single definition — and it is not in the code they expect. We lead with the number, establishment by establishment, because that is the decision a board is actually being asked to take.
01
The wage definition
A single definition across all four codes, capping what may sit outside “wages” — which raises provident fund, gratuity and bonus together, on past service as well as future.
02
Fixed-term & contract labour
Statutory parity of benefits, gratuity accruing far earlier, and principal-employer obligations that do not stop at the vendor’s boundary.
03
Multi-state compliance
The codes are central; the registrations, registers, returns and thresholds sit in State rules that commence separately. A group has one position per establishment.
04
Inspection readiness
Standing orders, appointment letters and records that can actually be produced — and representation when the questions become contentious.
05 — Dedicated practice
The DPDP Act is
not an IT project.
It is a legal one.
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 rewired the obligations of every organisation that handles personal data in India — and, in many cases, of those that handle Indian data from outside it. Penalties run to hundreds of crores. Most compliance programmes we are asked to review were built by a vendor around a consent banner.
Ours start with the law: what data you actually hold, on what basis you hold it, what you promised the person it belongs to, and what you would have to prove to the Data Protection Board on a bad day.
01
Readiness assessment
A legal gap analysis mapped to the Act and the Rules, scoped by processing activity rather than by department.
02
Notice & consent
Notices that satisfy Section 5, consent flows that survive scrutiny, and a defensible record of both.
03
Contracts & vendors
Data processing terms for your processors, and a position to hold when your customers send you theirs.
04
Breach & Board response
Playbooks written before the incident, and representation before the Data Protection Board of India after it.
The people on your file.
All peopleOur partners practise across the commissions and tribunals, the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India.
07 — Sectors we know well
Sectors served: power generation and distribution, transmission utilities, renewable energy, infrastructure, government and public sector, banking and insurance, real estate, manufacturing and industrials, technology and telecom.
What we are reading, and what we think it means.
All insightsThe wage definition is the whole story
Not the four-day week. The provision that reprices every Indian salary structure, and what it does to provident fund, gratuity and bonus at once.
ReadFour codes, one country, thirty-six compliance positions
The codes are central; the obligations that bite live in State rules that commence separately.
ReadThe DPDP Rules: what actually changes on your systems
The Act set the obligations; the Rules set the operational detail a Data Fiduciary has to build.
ReadStart a conversation
Tell us the problem.
We will tell you, plainly,
where you stand.
Whether it is a tariff order to be appealed, a hearing already listed, or a notice that has just been served, we will tell you where you stand before you instruct us.