Bharucha & Partners

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Sonam plays an important role in leading the Governance, Ethics, and Anti-Corruption Practice at theFirm and is also engaged with its Impact Policy Group. She has played a key role in significant white-collarcases in the country, including: (i) successfully defending Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Private Limited(Uninor) in the 2G matter before the CBI Special Court; (ii) representing high net worth individuals (HNIs) and corporates in the highly publicised prosecution initiated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with respect to coal block allocations; and (iii) advising and representing various corporates, promoters,directors, and other Key Managerial Persons (KMPs) in investigations and prosecutions initiated by investigating agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Directorate of Enforcement (ED),Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Directorate General of GST Intelligence, etc. Besides, she has also represented and advised various high-ranking public officials.

Sonam also has considerable experience in real estate aggregation and development and is building andstructuring the Firm's Real Estate Practice. She also regularly represents and advises clients on insolvency and bankruptcy law, employment law, and arbitrations.

Her practice is multi-faceted and Sonam acts in both commercial and criminal litigation before the Supreme Court of India and High Courts across the country.

English, Hindi

Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India

B.A. LL.B (Hons.), University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.LL.M. (Intellectual Property Rights), University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.PG Diploma, Forensic Science and Forensic Medicine, IFS Academy, Pune.