Srinivas Atreya Chatti

Practitioner in the Disputes & White-Collar Crimes Practice of the Firm, with 10 years of experience in advising on civil, commercial and criminal matters.

Srinivas regularly appears before courts and tribunals across the country, for domestic and foreign clients (across industry sectors such as banking and finance, IT/ ITES, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and infrastructure).

Relevant Experience:

Civil and commercial litigation

Advising a foreign bank in civil suits and criminal investigation before the Calcutta High Court and magistrate court for claims arising from misappropriation of pledged goods/commodities in a trade-finance transaction.
Advised a film distributor in a civil litigation arising from disputes under a movie license agreement pertaining to the movie ‘Sholay’ before the Bombay High Court, resulting in a reported judgement which was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Advised a technology company in a shareholder disputes, entailing proceedings from the NCLT, Mumbai up to the Supreme Court, resulting in a successful settlement through mediation.
Advised shareholders of a listed company in an oppression and mismanagement dispute before the NCLT, Mumbai and in mediation proceedings.
Advised a power company in proceedings before the Debt Recovery Tribunal, Mumbai which resulted in a successful settlement.
Advising on voluntary winding-up/ liquidation of companies and partnership firms.

Dispute Resolution

Advising a High Net-worth Individual (NRI) in a partnership dispute entailing arbitration and related proceedings before the Bombay High Court and mediation proceedings before the retired Judge.
Advised a telecom operator forming part of a large conglomerate in arbitration proceedings on disputes arising from master services agreement against a telecom infrastructure provider.
Advised an insurance company in arbitration proceedings in breach of confidentiality claims arising under a master service agreement.
Advised a manufacturing company in arbitration proceedings initiated against a former employee for breach of confidentiality claims under an employment agreement.

Criminal litigation

Advising a Business Correspondent of a scheduled commercial bank in an appeal before Supreme Court of India in relation to quashing of criminal proceedings against its employees. The case involves substantial questions of law on the applicability of a legislation regulating micro-finance institutions to NBFCs.
Advising a scheduled commercial bank in a criminal investigation and proceedings initiated by the Economic Offences Wing, Madhya Pradesh Police against officers of the bank.
Advising a scheduled commercial bank in a criminal investigation and proceedings in relation to allegations of financial fraud and siphoning of funds by a travel company and its promoters.
Advising a pharmaceutical company in a criminal investigation and proceedings for offences under the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940, in relation to imported medical devices.
Advising directors of a foreign joint venture partner on complaints filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office.
Advising on criminal and regulatory investigations conducted by the Directorate of Enforcement, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Director General of GST Intelligence, Central Bureau of Investigation and local/state police.