Ms Sonam Gupta > Bharucha & Partners > Mumbai, India > Lawyer Profile
Bharucha & Partners Offices
13th Floor, Free Press House
Free Press Journal Marg, Nariman Point
Mumbai 400 021
India
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Ms Sonam Gupta
Work Department
Laws of Crime
Governance, Ethics, & Anti-Corruption
International & Domestic Arbitration
Real Estate
Commercial Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Sonam plays an important role in leading the Governance, Ethics, and Anti-Corruption Practice at the
Firm and is also engaged with its Impact Policy Group. She has played a key role in significant white-collar
cases in the country, including: (i) successfully defending Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Private Limited
(Uninor) in the 2G matter before the CBI Special Court; (ii) representing high net worth individuals (HNIs) and corporates in the highly publicised prosecution initiated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with respect to coal block allocations; and (iii) advising and representing various corporates, promoters,
directors, and other Key Managerial Persons (KMPs) in investigations and prosecutions initiated by investigating agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Directorate of Enforcement (ED),
Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Directorate General of GST Intelligence, etc. Besides, she has also represented and advised various high-ranking public officials.
Sonam also has considerable experience in real estate aggregation and development and is building and
structuring the Firm’s Real Estate Practice. She also regularly represents and advises clients on insolvency and bankruptcy law, employment law, and arbitrations.
Her practice is multi-faceted and Sonam acts in both commercial and criminal litigation before the Supreme Court of India and High Courts across the country.
Languages
English, Hindi
Memberships
Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India
Education
B.A. LL.B (Hons.), University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
LL.M. (Intellectual Property Rights), University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
PG Diploma, Forensic Science and Forensic Medicine, IFS Academy, Pune.
Lawyer Rankings
India > White-collar crime
(Leading partners)Under the joint leadership of founder and senior partner MP Bharucha and managing partner Justin Bharucha, the governance, ethics, and anti-corruption practice at Bharucha & Partners regularly advises both corporate and individual clients on the full range of white-collar crime issues. The ‘extremely skilled and proactive‘ team also includes Sonam Gupta and Sneha Jaisingh; Gupta handles both contentious and non-contentious mandates, representing corporates and high-net-worth individuals in investigations and economic offences prosecutions, while Jaisingh represents clients in cases involving economic offences and regulatory compliance issues before the high courts and the Supreme Court.