Kochhar & Co.’s anti-corruption, corporate investigations, and white-collar crime offering spans the full range of complex fraud, money laundering, and corruption work. Founding member and managing partner Rohit Kochhar co-heads the practice alongside senior partner Krishna Vijay Singh, an experienced white-collar litigator with notable expertise acting for domestic and international corporations facing enforcement actions in India. Manish Dembla is a key contact for multinational corporations seeking advice on securities fraud, bribery, and anti-corruption issues, while Pradyuman Sewar has extensive experience defending CBI prosecutions. For clients in the pharma, infrastructure, and construction sectors, Nachiketa Goyal is a key port of call. Madhvi Datta joined the team in January 2024, strengthening its anti-bribery and anti-corruption offerings.
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Work Department
Aerospace & DefenceCorporate M & ADispute ResolutionEducationEmployment LawManufacturingPrivate Clients,Trusts & Estate PlanningWhite Collar Crime
Position
Chairman & Managing Partner
Career
Mr. Rohit Kochhar is the founding member & managing partner of Kochhar & Co. and has rich and diverse professional experience of over 37 years. Under Mr. Kochhar’s dynamic leadership, the Kochhar firm has rapidly expanded and grown to become the only Indian law firm with a full-service presence in seven (7) prominent Indian cities and three (3) overseas offices, namely Chicago, Toronto and Dubai-where Kochhar & Co. is the only law firm from the Indian sub-continent with a license to practice local UAE and DIFC laws.
Mr. Kochhar is actively involved in advising numerous Global Fortune 500 Corporations on a wide range of legal matters in India. His practice areas include General Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, White Collar Crime & Investigations and Employment.
In addition to his leadership role in the corporate M&A space, Mr. Kochhar heads the Anti-Corruption & White-Collar Crime practice of the Firm, and co-chairs the Employment practice. Over the years, he has handled some of the most delicate and high-stake criminal matters and employee disputes on behalf of multinational clients, many of which were widely reported in the Indian press. These include critical cases for one of the world’s largest technology companies (with revenues in excess of US $55 billion), the world’s biggest hotel chain company, one of the largest automakers, and the second largest container shipping company in the world (with revenues in excess of US $56 billion).
Mr Kochhar has represented some of the most prestigious multinational corporations on highly sensitive employment matters including the termination of CXOs and other members of senior leadership, as well as mass redundancies of blue-collar employees. Such clients include one of the world’s largest mass media companies, one of the largest retail companies in Europe, a multi-billion-dollar German company, and the world’s largest insurance advisory company.
Mr. Kochhar has been consistently acclaimed as one of India’s top lawyers and is amongst the most decorated legal luminaries in the country. During the last three years, Forbes Magazine has ranked Mr Kochhar as one of India’s top managing partners. He was also recognised as one of “The Super 50 lawyers of India” by Asian Legal Business (a Thomson Reuters publication).
Mr. Kochhar has been the recipient of the International Council of Jurists Award conferred by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India for his distinctive accomplishment in the areas of corporate law.
Mr. Kochhar is one of the founding members of the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and currently serves as the Honorary Secretary of SILF.
Languages
English, Hindi
Memberships
- Honorary Secretary of the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF)
- Regional President, The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, India - North India Council (IACC - NIC)
- Bar Council of Delhi (1987)
Education
- LL.B from National Law College, Mumbai (1987)
- Merit Scholar - 1st in college and 3rd in Maharashtra University
- Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Sri Ram College of Commerce (1984) (First Division)
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