About

Chandan Garg started his career in 2003 as an independent advocate in the district courts of Sangrur (Punjab) involved in civil, criminal and consumer litigation. Then he joined Jindal Steel and Power, one of the biggest steel manufacturers in India. He managed the legal affairs of three companies within the Jindhal Group, including two manufacturing plants, a coal mine and a power plant. In his 10 years at Jindal Group, Garg had great exposure to contracts, agreements, and litigation which primed him for his March 2016 move to Petronet LNG as manager – legal. Petronet LNG has two re-gasification terminals, 15MT in Gujrat and 5MT located in Kochi. At Petronet LNG, Garg works mostly on long term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales and purchase agreements (SPAs) through which LNG is imported from RasGas in Qatar and ExxonMobil in Australia and after regasification is sold to major oil and gas marketing companies as well as a major price negotiation deal with Exxon Mobil Australia. Garg has particular experience in writ petitions and arbitrations having completed a successful petition against the government of Chhattsigarh for capping the investment subsidy to around 10% from original notification and an arbitration and writ petitions against a port trust under the Major Port Trust Act. Garg identifies that his successes have come from his career in litigation bringing composure and experience in these matters in-house. He says that, ‘I had very good exposure to writ jurisdictions of high courts [during] my tenure in Jindal Steel and a massive exposure to international contracts of LNG SPA in Petronet LNG’.