Profile of Judges for Quarter-Final Rounds
Mr. Namit Saxena
Mr. Namit Saxena is an advocate on record at the Supreme Court of India enrolled with the Bar Council of Rajasthan. After graduating in law from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow in 2013, Mr. Namit was selected to work as a Law Clerk cum Research Associate at the Supreme Court of India and was attached with Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph for a period of one year. Thereafter, he decided to join the bar and was offered a position at the chambers of the Solicitor General for India, where he worked for a brief period before starting his practice. He has a dedicated taste for academic writing and has published articles with various newspapers as well as numerous research papers, which have been published in journals of high repute. Mr. Namit has also contributed towards revising various noteworthy legal commentaries.
Mr. Amir Bavani
Mr. Amir Bavani is a Principal Associate at Dhir & Dhir Associates, Hyderabad. He is a post graduate in MBA from ICFAI University and completed his LLB as well as LLM from Osmania University. His core expertise lies in Dispute Resolution especially involving Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016, Banking Laws and General Corporate.He regularly appears before various judicial/quasi- judicial authorities including High Court, Debt Recovery Tribunal and National Company Law Tribunal. He advises significant number of companies, creditors, other stakeholders to identify and adopt the most suitable approach to deal with a complex web of possible outcomes and legal strategies to effectively deal with the aspects of corporate insolvency and restructuring process.
Ms. Parvathy Tharamel
Ms. Parvathy Tharamel is a Senior Associate working in the Labour and Employment practice group at Trilegal. Ms. Parvathy graduated from ILS Law College, Pune in 2014, and has completed Master of Business Laws from National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. She is a member of Bar Council of Karnataka. She has been involved in advising clients on employee benefits, prevention of sexual harassment, business transfers, immigration, anti-discrimination and other issues ranging from recruitment till termination of employment. Ms. Parvathy Tharamel has also conducted sensitive workplace misconduct investigations and has handheld clients through disciplinary proceedings, structuring redundancies, employee separations etc. Prior to Trilegal, she worked as a Senior Legal Executive in Wipro and regularly contributes to several national and International legal publications such as Bloomberg BNA, World Bank etc.
Mr. Manav Gecil Thomas
Mr. Manav Gecil Thomas is a Partner at Thomas George & Associates and is a budding Lawyer. He joined the firm right after graduation from ILS Law College, Pune in 2015. His area of work includes litigation in the area of civil, criminal, labour, administration, banking, personal and business law and also assists in handling the non-litigation matters of the firm. Mr. Manav has been handling litigation matters before varied forums including the High Court of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, District Courts and other statutory tribunals/ quasi forums. Over a short span of two years he has received accolades from Hon’ble Judges for well researched presentation of cases at hand. Apart from his passion towards advocacy, Mr. Manav is also dedicated towards serving the society and has volunteered at Make a Difference (MAD), an NGO dedicated to empower children from the economically backward society by providing them quality education.
Ms. PRAGYA KHAITAN
Ms. Pragya Khaitan is an independent practitioner with over 10 years diverse experience in civil and company litigation, corporate advisory, drafting commercial & legal documents. She is registered with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa and has worked with M/s. Crawford Bayley & Co. and M/s. Dhir & Dhir Associates before branching out on her own. She has been actively involved in matters filed under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, since its inception. She is an independent counsel with M/s. Legalite Advisors LLP. She has extensive experience in drafting and filing summary suits, partition suits, testamentary suits, writ petitions, company petitions, matters pertaining to IBC, Section 9, 11 and 34 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, etc. Drafting and filing applications under the Maharashtra Relief Undertaking (Special Provisions) Act, 1958. Drafting replies and documents dealing with claims raised, with respect to wilful defaulters. Advising clients on strategy and the way forward in various litigations. Briefing and assisting Senior Counsels and Counsels in arguing such matters. Appearing before the benches of the Bombay High Court, Securities Appellate Tribunal, Debt Recovery Tribunal, National Company Law Tribunal and lower civil courts.
Mr. Raghenth Basant
Mr. Raghenth Basant graduated from National Law School of India University, Bangalore in the year 2001. He kicked off his career at Zia Mody (now AZB & Partners), and worked there from 2001 to 2003. After this, he started practising at the trials courts in Kozhikode, Kerala for a year. He soon shifted gears and moved his practise to New Delhi, where he joined the chambers of Senior Advocate, and formed Solicitor General of India: Gopal Subramanium.He set up his independent practice in the year 2009. He was the standing Counsel for Calicut University in the Supreme Court of India. He appeared as the Counsel for State of Kerala before the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. He was also in the panel of lawyers of Union of India in the Supreme Court. He appears regularly before the Supreme Court of India, National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and various other forums in New Delhi.
Ms. Liz Mathew
Ms. Liz Mathew is an Advocate on Record practicing in Supreme Court of India. After having graduated from National Law School of India, Bangalore, she worked under the now Attorney General: KK Venugoapl; and also under the Former Supreme Court judge: Justice Indu Malhotra, as a chamber junior. Shortly after, she set up her own practice.She was also the standing counsel of State of Kerala in the Supreme Court for 5 years and is currently on the Central Government panel. She has experience in a wide variety of appellate work, with an especial niche in arbitration matters, matters arising out of IBC and other civil and criminal matters.
Mr. Sajith Valapilakandi
20 years’+ experience Practicing as a Lawyer (M/s Samistilegal) in various courts of Hyderbad viz High Court , National,Company Law Appeleate Tribunal ,National Company law Tribunal for Initialing Corporate Actions as well as CIRP under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code . I have represented Various Financial Creditors Viz SBI , IFCI, IDBI , INDIAN BANK , AXIS BANK , BoB , OBC, SIDBI TFCI IDBI Capital ,etc . my clientele also Includes M/s PURAVANKARA , PENNA CEMENTS, KAMINENI STEELS , MAHINDRA SUSTEN, PINNACLE GROUP, UNITED SEAMLESS TUBULAR , OIL COUNTY TUBULAR , DIVINE SOLERIN , AZURE POWER , SHV ENERGY, RELIANCE , AIRTEL Sirpur Paper Mills Bheema Cements to name a few, I have trained Banker on various laws Including I&B Code 2016 , Trainer to few institutions , I also advice Resolution Professionals , Committee of Creditors in Corporate Insolvency Proceedings . Has conducted the proceedings under section 7 in all the Major Matter file at NCLT Hyderabad Bench on behalf of Financial Creditors, I primarily Paractice on coporpate Laws , as well as Insolvency &Bankruptcy proceedings .
Mr. Suchindran Baskar Narayan
Advocate Suchindran Baskar Narayan graduated from ILS Law College, Pune in the year 2007. He started his career at Chambers of Senior Advocate, Arvind Datar. He, in the year 2018 joined Chambers of KK Venugopal, Attorney General. He is currently practicing as an independent advocate at the High Court of Madras.
Mr. Siddharth
Mr. Siddharth has more than 9 years of experience in arbitration, civil and commercial litigation. He focusses primarily on arbitration work. Siddharth is also an Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India and regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court and Tribunals.