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Mr Rajat Taimni
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Rajat Taimni joined Tuli & Co in 2001 and heads the Firm’s dispute resolution practice. He has 22+ years of experience and his core practice is litigation and arbitration on disputes involving insurance and reinsurance, investment treaties, sovereign funds, charterparties, sports and media, white collar issues, joint venture disputes, railways, aviation, and defence contracts. Rajat represents Insurers, Reinsurers, and commercial clients with litigious disputes before Indian Courts as well as before international and domestic arbitration tribunals.
Rajat specializes in high profile, high value and complex ad-hoc arbitrations as well as institutional arbitrations arising from LCIA, ICC, SIAC, DIAC, CIETAC, JAMS, ICA, International Cotton Association, American Arbitration Association Rules, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and International Centre for Dispute Resolution International Arbitration Rules, amongst others.
His core practice is handling complex commercial disputes before the Supreme Courts, High Courts, ad-hoc and institutional arbitrations and other ADR procedures. Rajat is regularly instructed in litigation cases involving contractual disputes, liquidated damages, misrepresentation, insolvency, extension of time, delays, civil recoveries as well as matters involving foreign exchange investigations. On the arbitration docket, he appears for a number of clients from the Private Equity in investment related matters, government and private entities in construction, infrastructure, urban development and bridge and tunnels as well as media rights holders in sports disputes.
Career
Rajat joined Tuli & Co in 2001 and became a partner in 2003.
Memberships
- Arbitrator, Court of Arbitrator for Sports (CAS Lausanne)
- Member of the ICC India Arbitration Group and Co-ordination Committee
- Recognized as the Leading Lawyer in India – Asia Law Leading Lawyers Survey
- Member of the Bar Council of Delhi
- MCIArb: Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Member, New York International Arbitration Centre
- Panel of Mediators and Conciliators, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India
- ADR Panel of Arbitrators, Assocham International Council of Alternate Dispute Resolution (AICADR)
Education
B.A.LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (2000)
Lawyer Rankings
India > Dispute resolution: litigation
Praised for its ‘thorough domain knowledge of the insurance sector‘, clients in the industry routinely instruct Tuli & Co’s litigation team to assist on the full spectrum of sector-related disputes. Mumbai-based duo Naval Sharma and Rajat Taimni co-head the practice alongside New Delhi-based senior partner Neeraj Tuli
; the three regularly act for insurers, reinsurers, and commercial entities. Also in the core team is the ‘exceptional‘ Saket Satapathy, who is based in Mumbai.
India > Insurance
Specialist insurance firm Tuli & Co is the first port of call for domestic and international insurance companies, intermediaries and reinsurers on high-value insurance claims, in addition to outsourcing issues, bancassurance arrangements and commission payments. Three partners co-lead the New Delhi-based team: coverage and claims head Neeraj Tuli, who assists on contentious and non-contentious matters involving insurance coverage, regulatory and product development issues; head of the non-contentious offering Celia Jenkins, who ‘carries a wealth of industry knowledge’ in corporate and commercial work for insurers, reinsurers, and insurance intermediaries; and litigation-focused Rajat Taimni. Other recommended individuals include Mandakini Khanna, for her coverage and claims advice to Indian and overseas insurers and reinsurers under a range of insurance policies, including clinical trial, product liability and cyber; and managing associate Anuj Bahukhandi, who is well-versed in advising emerging insurers on digital distribution matters and implementing novel product structures in the Indian insurance market.
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