Kochhar & Co.’s white-collar crime practice is known for advising major companies, financial institutions and senior executives on multijurisdictional white-collar crime matters, regularly engaging with law enforcement and government authorities. The team has a strong track record in high-stakes corporate crime cases relating to money laundering, insider trading, trade secrets misappropriation, financial fraud, and bribery, and is also a go-to choice for elected and appointed officials facing public corruption allegations. Rohit Kochhar and Krishna Vijay Singh co-lead the team from New Delhi and Gurgaon, respectively. Kochhar has longstanding experience in investigations, regulatory enforcement, and fraud cases, while Singh has strong knowledge of complex fraud, corporate corruption, bribery and financial crime matters. Recently promoted partner Rushil Mathur is active in advising clients from the manufacturing, e-commerce and IT sectors on criminal proceedings and investigations. Mayur Shetty, who specialises in white-collar crime mandates, joined the team in May 2025 from Rajani Singhania & Partners.
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Key clients
- Actial Farmaceutica Srl (Italy)
- Amex GBT
- Bloomberg Inc
- CMA CGM Group
- Cisco Systems India Private Limited
- Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (USA)
- Eli Lilly and Company (India)
- Ford Motor Company (USA)
- Jogo Health Private Limited
- LIN SCAN Advanced Pipelines & Tanks Services
- Mercedes-Benz India Private Limited
- Tetra Tech, Inc. (USA)
Work highlights
Representing CMA CGM before the SC in challenging Indian jurisdiction to try a foreign vessel and its crew for a maritime collision in the EEZ of India involving interpretation of provisions of domestic laws such as IPC, CrPC, Merchant Shipping Act and the Maritime Zones Act as well as provisions of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas.
Obtaining no-coercion and no arrest order in favour of Managing Director of Ford India and its US National Director in an FIR registered against them at the instance of a former Ford India dealer.
Acting for Dow Jones & Co and its executives in a criminal defamation complaint filed against them for publication of an article in the Wall Street Journal.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Krishna Vijay Singh
Practice head
Rohit Kochhar; Krishna Vijay Singh
Other key lawyers
Mayur Shetty; Pradyuman Sewar; Rushil Mathur; Nachiketa Goyal