Mr. Dhaval Vussonji is the founder of the young and fast expanding firm Dhaval Vussonji & Associates. The Firm has diverse areas of practice including Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate laws. Described as a "sound, very hands-on lawyer who understands the issues", by Chambers & Partners, Mr. Vussonji is also consistently titled as a "Leading Lawyer" by other publications including Asia Law, ILFR 1000 since the year 2014.Besides the afore mentioned areas of practice, he also practices extensively in the areas of Corporate Debt Restructuring, EPC Contracts, Hotel Management Contracts, International Commercial Arbitration, Litigation and Arbitration, Private Equity Investments and Maritime Laws.In the course of advising clients on real estate matters, Mr. Vussonji regularly deals with several issues relating to land titles, acquisition of lands, development of such lands, sale of premises constructed on the lands, leasing of premises of such lands, construction of malls, leasing of premises in malls and construction of hotels. He advises transactions involving foreign direct equity investment in completed and under construction real estate projects in India.He has advised structuring of apartment funds, formulating of 80:20 schemes, compliant with RBI norms and setting up of businesses for Non Banking Financial companies.He has advised one of the first foreign direct investments in a completed real estate commercial project under the new foreign direct investment regime. He also advised the Pudumjee group on a three way de-merger involving two listed companies and listing of the resulting company without a public offer. He has been a key adviser to Bharati Shipyard in a highly contested take-over of Great Offshore Limited.Mr. Vussonji contributes on topical issues through articles in publications like Corporate Law Advisors and journals released by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.