About Us
Institutions across India are holding enormous sums in the names of people who are alive, contactable and unaware of it. We are the people who go and get it.
Our Firm
Standing Lawyers is an asset recovery and claims practice. We do two things. For individuals and families, we recover assets that an institution is holding in your name and will not release without proof: shares and dividends moved to a government fund, certificates that can no longer be sold, holdings still standing in the name of someone who has died, deposits at a bank nobody remembers, policies that matured and were never collected, provident fund left with an employer that has since closed. For businesses, we recover money another business owes you: an ageing ledger triaged, debtors traced, the file rebuilt, and the route applied that fits the debtor rather than the one that fits the invoice. None of this money is forfeited by having been forgotten. What it needs is proving, and proving it is the work.
Billed by the hour
A fee agreed at the start
The same work either way. Only one of them tells you what it costs before anything begins.
What we could take on
What we do take on
We stop short of what we could carry, so whoever answers already knows your file.
The search and assessment
A matter, start to close
The search and the view on it cost nothing, and they come before a fee is agreed rather than after.
Our Values
Searching for an unclaimed deposit is free. Checking unclaimed insurance amounts is free. Filing Form IEPF-5 carries no fee to the claimant. Complaining to an insurance ombudsman is free. Where your documents are clean and the route is open, you do not need us, and you will hear that from us before you have paid anything. This costs us work, and it is the reason the rest of what we say is worth listening to.
Nobody can. What we can tell you is what appears to exist, what proving it will involve, roughly how long that takes, and where the difficulty is. If we think a matter is not worth pursuing, we say so rather than take the mandate and let it run.
Money is released to you, into your own account, on a claim you have signed. We prepare it, assemble the evidence behind it, and stay behind it. Nothing recovered passes through this firm and our fee is never a share of it, which is set out in our Fee and Refund Policy and is the reason we have no interest in keeping a doubtful claim alive.
Where We Stand
Recovery runs on registrars, companies, funds and courts, and most of a matter is spent waiting for one of them. An hourly arrangement bills the bursts and cannot tell you in advance how many there will be, which is how people stop chasing a claim halfway through it.
Where the certificate is in your own name, your identity documents match, the registrar answers, and nobody has died, the forms are public and the fees are nil. What stops people is never the form. It is a signature that no longer matches, a company that has changed its name, an employer that closed, or a succession nobody documented.
We take on the part the free routes do not cover: proving that a folio opened in 1994 is yours, establishing who inherits, dealing with an institution that has refused, and rebuilding a debtor file that can be relied on. The fee is agreed before the work starts and does not move because a registrar took six months.
Figure 03 · What it costs
Standing Lawyers
- The fee you agreed
- The level you agreed
Relative cost
A fee agreed before the work starts, level for the life of the matter however long the registrar takes.
Enquiries
Tell us what you are looking for.
We will search what is publicly searchable, tell you what appears to be there, and say plainly where you can claim it yourself for nothing.