Eminent Litigator Rohit Kochhar recognised as one of ‘India’s Top 30 Dispute Lawyers 2021’
Kochhar & Co. is the preferred law firm for MNCs from North America, Europe, and Japan including 75 of the Global Fortune 500 corporations. Interestingly, the firm's first MNC corporate client was the Japanese conglomerate, Panasonic, which was then known as Matsushita Electric.
NEW DELHI: Rohit Kochhar, Chairman & Managing Partner, Kochhar & Co has been recognised among India’s Top 30 Dispute Lawyers for the year 2021.
Such recognition has been accorded by Asia Legal Business (ALB), a Thomson Reuters Publication.
In its second annual survey, the ALB has felicitated 30 leading lawyers in India’s litigation and Arbitration landscape based on their work, client recommendation and peer review.
Rohit Kochhar is the founding member and managing partner of Kochhar & Co. (www.kochhar.com) and a leading litigator in India who advises on high-stake corporate/commercial disputes and white-collar crimes’ cases. For more than 35 years, Mr. Kochhar has acted for large multinational corporations and prominent domestic companies on their most pressing commercial litigation and arbitration matters.
Mr. Kochhar is regarded as one of India’s most accomplished lawyers in cases that involve the dual dimensions of criminal and civil remedies to be pursued. Illustratively, he assisted a prominent Italian multinational pharmaceutical company in obtaining an order from the Hon’ble Delhi High Court directing the Special Commissioner, Economic Offences Wing to re-examine the closure report pertaining to a highly complex multi-jurisdictional financial fraud involving legal rights to a probiotic bacterial product.
Recently, Mr. Kochhar led a large team of lawyers and secured a favourable arbitration award for a large Japanese corporation, from a SIAC arbitral tribunal wherein the stakes involved exceeded INR 15 billion.
Notably, clients say, “Rohit Kochhar is a great lawyer with outstanding skills. One of the best I have ever known. His main strength is his client-centric approach, leadership, and ability to prepare and execute a wholesome strategy for us keeping in view our business and commercial objectives.”
“Rohit is a perfectionist to the core, and the most creative and solution-seeking lawyer we have worked with compared to the managing partners or senior partners in the two other leading Indian law firms that we have worked with in the past,” says another client.
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