Ajay
Kumar

• Litigation (civil and criminal) and international commercial arbitration.
• Leading PE/VC transactions on both the debt and equity side.
• Developing in-house tools to implement AI across the firm — including Goo, the firm's AI research tool.
• General corporate and advisory.

• Assisting with building an India-specific AI legal ontology.
• Designing tools for India-specific legal applications.

• Advising a hotelier on a dispute with a co-founder and leading settlement negotiations.
• Advising a start-up in the aquaculture sector on vendor disputes.
• Assisting a major vehicle manufacturer in a dispute involving the seizure of a vehicle.

• Assisted a Japanese construction major with strategic advice on its India operations.
• Appeared in a matter on Environmental Law and the Motor Vehicles Act, including PILs.
• Provided advisory services in relation to Indian Immigration Law.
• Acted for a major hotel in a lease dispute arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Acted in a dispute with the Election Commission of India on the Model Code of Conduct.
• Privately acted for a major credit ratings agency in a regulatory matter with the RBI.

• Helped make legal information accessible and designed a portal for authenticated legal texts.
• Promoted the use of Wikis as a collaborative tool among justice professions.

Acted, assisted, appeared, drafted pleadings, briefed Senior Counsel, litigated and conducted cross-examinations for, inter alia:

• A leading multinational financial institution before the Labour and Industrial Court.
• A large credit rating agency before the Adjudicating Officer (SEBI), Whole Time Member (SEBI) and the Securities Appellate Tribunal in relation to regulatory matters.
• A major bank before the NCLT for the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
• A $120 million arbitration for a leading Indian EPC contractor and a Middle Eastern conglomerate, governed under UAE law; tribunal seated at Mumbai.
• One of India's oldest manufacturing companies in the power sector, in an arbitration matter and a connected NCLT matter, also involving cyber-crime.
• Clients on the original and appellate sides of the HC and the NCLT (under the Companies Act, 2013 and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016).
• A return-of-passport matter involving the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence at the request of the Consulate General of Malaysia in Mumbai (Customs Act, 1962 & Passports Act, 1967).
• A leading sovereign wealth fund for an Enforcement Directorate investigation and the Serious Frauds Investigation Office; also helped lift a Look-Out Circular.
• A Senior Advocate and their NGO in relation to a CBI investigation.

Appeared for, drafted pleadings and briefed Senior Counsel for a massive global insolvency before the HC, Andhra Pradesh; a criminal matter; a global EPC contractor; a telecommunications and media company; two large overseas pharmaceutical companies; India's largest plastics manufacturers in a mismanagement matter before the NCLT; and a major Indian charitable organisation.

• Appeared for a global commodities giant in an appeal from a winding-up petition in the HC.
• Drafted pleadings, appeared and briefed counsel for one of India's largest heavy electrical companies and a leading road manufacturer.

Represented industry leaders: an aircraft manufacturer (Atomic Energy Act, 1962); an overseas automobile manufacturer (Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999); an overseas steel works manufacturer in an arbitration for non-payment of dues; and a real estate holding company in a mismanagement matter on a real estate transaction.

• Filed matters on money recovery, company petitions, testamentary suits and writ petitions on taxation matters on the original side of the High Court at Bombay.
• On record in the HC for the Property Redevelopers Association in their case challenging the 2011 CRZ Notification.