Aditya Mukherjee
Aditya Mukherjee is a Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. He has been a part of the dispute resolution team of the firm for over eleven years.
Aditya has wide experience in advising and representing clients in white collar crime defense matters, civil commercial litigation, ad-hoc domestic arbitrations as well as institutional arbitrations and related court proceedings.
He has advised clients in relation to certain widely publicized criminal proceedings, for instance, the FiberNet Scam, Kerala Gold Scam and the Fertilizer Scam. Aditya has also recently advised a major pharmaceutical company in relation to a corruption related investigation. He regularly appears before various courts and tribunals in relation to these proceedings, including for bail proceedings, attachment proceedings etc.
Aditya has recently also advised a financial services company and an asset management company in relation to SFIO investigation(s) into the operations of the respective entities.
Aditya has also conducted multiple internal investigations pertaining to fraud, corruption, employee related issues and other criminal offences, for various MNCs and domestic entities. His expertise involves advising clients and their management from the initial stages of the internal review process, formulating defence strategy, forming strategy for engagement with the law enforcement agency(ies) and representing his clients in the investigations and resulting proceedings. His experience for such investigation matters ranges across various industry sectors including – pharmaceuticals, audit function, alco-beverage, renewable energy, e-commerce etc.
He has also represented Resilient Innovations (Bharat Pe) in its disputes with its Founder, Mr. Ashneer Grover. Additionally, he is presently representing Capgemini India in arbitration proceedings against CRIS. Aditya is also advising and defending a senior ex-bureaucrat in enforcement proceedings instituted before the Calcutta High Court, emanating from an ICC foreign award passed in Chicago.
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Aditya has vast experience in handling indirect tax litigations, such as, proceedings seeking refund of taxes, duties and levies, illegally retained by state authorities upon imposition of prohibition in liquor in Bihar. He has been acting for certain industry associations such as ISWAI and CIABC in their challenge to the imposition of prohibition and challenge to the introduction of monopoly in trade in liquor. He has also represented a retailers’ association before the Supreme Court in proceedings concerning the ban on sale of liquor near national and state highways.
He has represented clients across various industries in due process litigation before High Courts and the Supreme Court. He has successfully represented a major pharmaceutical product manufacturer in a tender dispute before the Karnataka High Court and the concerned tender appellate authority. He also represented an e-cigarette importer in its challenge to the imposition of the ban on sale of e-cigarettes. He has acted for various OEM manufacturers before the Delhi High Court, in their challenge to certain orders passed by the CCI. He has also represented Vodafone India Ltd. before the Supreme Court in its challenge to the CCI exercising jurisdiction over the telecom sector.
Aditya has also represented various MNCs in litigations in relation to employee disputes relating to breach of confidentiality by ex-employees, challenge to actions taken by an employee in relation to a POSH complaint, defamation proceedings against ex-employees, defending companies in proceedings relating to termination of employment of employees.
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Professional Memberships
- Delhi High Court Bar Association
Education
- B.A. LLB. (Hons.), IP Amity Law School, GGSIP University, Delhi
