Khaitan & Co.
With sector-specific expertise in the engineering, heavy industry, finance, and hospitality spaces, the disputes team at Khaitan & Co. regularly acts for individuals, state-owned companies, and multinational corporations. Fielding a large team with broad geographic coverage, the group has experience representing clients in complex foreign-seated arbitrations as well as ad-hoc domestic proceedings. In Noida, Ajay Bhargava and Sanjeev Kapoor are the key names, while Kingshuk Banerjee, Chakrapani Misra, and Raj Panchmatia handle commercial and contractual arbitrations from the firm’s Mumbai office. Rajat Jariwal and Mayuri Tiwari left the practice in 2023.
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Key clients
- Steelcase Asia Pacific Holdings India Private Limited
- Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)
- Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited
- India Glycol Limited and IGL Chem International USA LLC
- L&T Finance Limited
- Essar Exploration and Production Limited
- Vedanta Limited
- Inox Wind Limited
- Philips India Limited
- Swiss Singapore India Pvt Ltd (An Aditya Birla Group Company)
- Patel Engineering Limited (“PEL”) and Dirang Energy Private Limited (“DEPL”)
- My Preferred Transformation & Hospitality Pvt Ltd
Work highlights
- Advised and successfully represented Steelcase Asia Pacific Holdings India Private Limited (“Steelcase”) before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh (the “Court”) in a matter under Section 11(6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (the “Act”), filed by Phoennix Clearing and Forwarding Private Limited (“Phoennix”).
- Representing and advising MMRDA in the arbitration proceedings initiated by Simplex Infrastructure Limited relating to the termination of the contract for part design and construction of Metro Line 2B in Mumbai, India.
- Representing and advising Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited in proceedings under section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“the Act”) filed against it by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (“HPCL”).
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