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Zal Andhyarujina
Position
Zal Andhyarujina SA is a prominent Senior Advocate at the Indian Bar, based in Mumbai. He has a large and diverse commercial practice with a focus on cross border disputes. He has appeared in many important commercial disputes. Zal’s areas of expertise include international arbitration, banking, financial services, commercial law, company law, enforcement of foreign awards and decrees and restructuring and insolvency.
He practices in the Bombay High Court, The Supreme Court of India and various tribunals including the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
Education
- BA (Jurisprudence) (Senior Status) – Oxford University (Wadham College)
- BA (Economics) – Bombay University (St Xavier’s College)
Lawyer Rankings
India - Senior Advocates > Commercial disputes
(Commercial disputes)Ranked: Tier 2Zal Andhyarujina ‘Zal’s strength lies in his temperament and grasp of a complex legal problem and breaking it down simply to the judge hearing the dispute and obtaining favourable results.’
A leading commercial chambers in London and Singapore, Fountain Court Chambers has three Indian Senior Advocates as door tenants who are established practitioners in India, London and Singapore. A ‘formidable advocate’, Gaurav Pachnanda has recently represented the vice president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association in the special leave petition to appoint an ombudsman to conduct elections for the Association’s governing body before the Supreme Court of India in The Hyderabad Cricket Association v. Chairman Cricket Club – he was additionally called to the English Bar in 2023. Primarily based in Mumbai, Zal Andhyarujina, who is ‘known for his equanimity’, has acted for Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited concerning their right to disconnect electricity on account of non-payment of dues as per the provisions of Section 14 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 before the Supreme Court of India. Arvind Datar has vast experience of representing his clients before the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts, statutory tribunals and commercial arbitrations on all kinds of matters involving constitutional, commercial, taxation and regulatory law issues.