Aviral Sahai

Aviral is part of the white-collar crimes and dispute resolution practice of the Firm and has over 9 yearsâ experience in advising clients on criminal investigations (internal and external), white-collar crimes litigation, commercial disputes (including international and domestic arbitrations) and constitutional matters.

Aviral regularly advises on pre-disputes strategy, appears before courts and investigative authorities, and has represented a wide ranging profile of domestic and international clients, including clients engaged in banking and finance, IT/ITeS, insurance, technology, media & telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and real estate.

He graduated as a Silver Medallist from Jindal Global Law School.

Relevant Experience

Advised and represented IndusInd Bank Limited on a successful challenge to the constitutional validity of the APMFI Act, before the Supreme Court and the Telangana High Court, whereby the said provisions were read down to exclude NBFCs from their applicability.
Advising an IT service provider in an investigation by the Maharashtra Police into a mobile application fraud, entailing proceedings before the Bombay High Court, including in relation to defreezing of bank accounts attached during the course of the investigations.
Advising and representing a leading cloud service provider and it officers in criminal actions initiated before the Economic Offences Wing, Mumbai arising out of allegations of fraud in incorporation and successfully obtained a de-freezing of the Clients’ bank accounts and obtained stays on the operation of a lookout circular against one of their former officers.
Advising and representing a media company and it directors in appellate proceedings before the Sessions Court challenging a conviction arising out of a delay in deposit of TDS under the Income Tax Act.
Advising and representing a public sector bank in proceedings before the Bombay High Court filed by specialist stream officers challenging the promotion policy of the Bank.
Advising a micro-finance institution in criminal complaints initiated against employees of the client in the states of Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, entailing proceedings before High Courts of Telangana and Madhya Pradesh
Advising and representing a general insurance company in relation to a large scale motor insurance fraud orchestrated by various former employees, empanelled garages, IRDAI licensed surveyors and policy holders and initiated criminal actions by filing complaints with the Regulator and proceedings for recovery of the amount so defrauded.
Advising and representing a leading pharmaceutical company engaged in development of a breakthrough medical product in their ongoing disputes pertaining to breach of confidentiality before the Hon’ble Bombay High Court
Representing a leading EPC company in legal proceedings arising out of a contract for setting up of transmission lines, with a foreign state-owned electricity distribution company
Representing and advising a leading hotel operations chain in various disputes before different fora, including the Hon’ble Supreme Court, Hon’ble Bombay High Court, Hon’ble City Civil Court, Ld. Eviction Officer, in relation to lands leased by a state entity to the Client. There are nuanced issues pertaining to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and jurisdictional questions involved in the disputes between the state entity and the Client which we are advising on.
Advising a multi-national private equity in relation to disputes on eviction, recovery of license fees and other charges from various licensees of a commercial property, in addition to advising on pending litigations against the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Representing a U.K. based company, its Indian subsidiary and the directors of the Indian subsidiary in connection with criminal actions initiated by the Ex-Managing Director of the Indian Subsidiary, including cyber offences and offences relating to allegations of backdated share transfers.