4C Supreme Law International maintains a Dubai office and a steady cross-border caseload. Indian law alone is rarely sufficient when a client lives, works, or holds assets outside India, and a fair amount of our work begins with reading two legal systems against each other.

The cross-border practice has several distinct streams. The first is enforcement of foreign judgments and decrees in India under Sections 13 and 44A of the CPC, and the corresponding work of getting Indian decrees recognised in the GCC, the United Kingdom, and the United States through local counsel. The second is international commercial arbitration, both institutional (SIAC, ICC, DIAC, LCIA) and ad hoc, including challenge and enforcement proceedings under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The third is criminal cross-border work: extradition, Red Corner Notice deletion before the INTERPOL Commission for the Control of Files at Lyon, MLAT requests, and Letters Rogatory.

Specific matter types regularly handled include Section 138 NI Act prosecutions involving Dubai-based drawers and Indian payees, IBC petitions where the corporate debtor has overseas operations, FEMA contraventions and compounding before the RBI, FCRA matters, and cross-border defamation. The firm currently advises a Dubai-based family in proceedings linked to NCB Crime No. 79/2022, with parallel matters before the Dubai DPP, and appears in NI Act defence work on behalf of clients ordinarily resident in the UAE.

Where the question is purely one of foreign law, we coordinate with admitted counsel in the relevant jurisdiction. Where the question is the interaction between Indian law and foreign law, which is most cases of this kind, we run the matter directly.