{"id":12,"date":"2026-03-27T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/mid-market-vendor-dispute\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:00:21","slug":"mid-market-vendor-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/mid-market-vendor-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor dispute, mid-market manufacturer \u2014 recovered \u20b94.2cr in 11 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mid-market industrial manufacturer engaged us to recover \u20b94.2 crore in outstanding payments owed by a downstream vendor that had, over eleven months, gradually shifted from late to silent.<\/p><p>The instinct in such matters is to file. The instinct is usually wrong, or at least incomplete. Filing creates a clock that runs against the wrong party \u2014 your client&#8217;s collections team, who must now sustain a litigation budget while the vendor delays through procedural motions.<\/p><p>We did three things in sequence. We sent a Section 8 notice under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, which is read more attentively than a civil notice and which carries a definite tail risk for the recipient. We then offered, before the statutory window expired, a structured payment plan with a two-percent settlement discount. And we made it clear we were prepared to file.<\/p><p>The vendor paid in eleven weeks. No court appearance was required. Our fees, exclusive of disbursements, were under three percent of the recovered amount.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovered outstanding payments owed by a downstream vendor through structured legal notice and pre-arbitral negotiation. No court appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.fasterthemes.com\/legal-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}