Mr Rajat Taimni > Tuli & Co > New Delhi, India > Lawyer Profile

Tuli & Co
LEVEL 14, OFFICE B
MAX TOWERS SECTOR 16B
NOIDA 201301
India
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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

Specialising in insurance litigation, the dispute resolution team at Tuli & Co has deep experience representing insurers before the High Courts and the Supreme Court. The practice has a growing client roster consisting of businesses from a range of industries including aviation, healthcare, and insurance, among others. Co-leading the department are Neeraj Tuli, Rajat Taimni, and Naval Sharma; Taimni concentrates on insurance and reinsurance disputes, as well as joint venture disputes, while Sharma focuses on trade credit, shipping, and service agreement disputes. The group also benefits from the expertise of Saket Satapathy, who heads the aviation law group and offers both contentious and advisory services.