Ms. Chakrabarti has worked on matters before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), as well as before tribunals constituted under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission of International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), among other representations. She also regularly provides strategic advice on drafting dispute resolution clauses in international commercial contracts. In recognition of her work, Ms. Chakrabarti was selected for inclusion in Benchmark Litigation’s 2024 40 and Under list and named one of Best Lawyers’ Ones To Watch in America.

Shruti Chandhok is a partner in the Government & Internal Investigations Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She focuses on advising corporate clients that have global operations with regulator facing and internal corporate investigations, compliance counselling, and global risk assessment focusing on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and financial sanctions regulations. She regularly assists clients with compliance-focused due diligence in connection with acquisitions and other transactions, and provides day to day counselling on a broad range of financial crime issues.

Shruti’s clients are spread across a wide variety of industries including private equity, banking, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and gaming. She also has extensive experience representing individuals subject to regulatory and criminal investigations. Shruti has advised both individuals and corporates in relation to investigations and prosecutions with the FCA, the SFO, the Competition and Markets Authority, and the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, and in the U.S. with the DOJ, SEC and the Federal Trade Commission.

For over 20 years Jason has advised individuals, boards, and companies in complex and high stakes white-collar crime matters and civil enforcement proceedings, government/parliamentary inquiries, anti-corruption commission proceedings, cross-border and regulatory investigations, and related litigation in federal and state courts as well as administrative tribunals.  He advises clients on a broad range of white-collar matters, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), economic and trade sanctions, extradition, money laundering, modern slavery, corporate fraud and employee misconduct, and financial services misconduct (including insider trading and market manipulation).

Jason has been consistently recognized as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for White Collar Crime and Corporate Investigations, as well as Anti-Bribery and Corruption.

Shreya Gupta is a Partner based out of the firm’s Mumbai office and focuses on domestic and international arbitration and complex commercial litigation. Before joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Shreya worked for several years in the dispute resolution team at Bharucha & Partners, Mumbai.

Shreya is on the Steering Committee of the Young Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (YMCIA) for the 2021-2023 term, and is also a member of Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (YICCA), Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC), Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), Young Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HK45), Arbitral Women and Rising Arbitrators’ Initiative.

Shreya regularly represents clients in international arbitrations, seated throughout the world (Singapore, London, Delaware, Mumbai, Delhi etc.) conducted under different arbitration rules (SIAC, LCIA etc.) and different laws (Indian law, English law, Singapore law, Italian law, etc.) across a wide range of industries (infrastructure, construction, energy, oil & gas, healthcare etc.). She has also acted in several shareholder disputes. In addition to arbitrations, Shreya also represents clients before the Supreme Court and High Courts of India in court facing aspects relating to arbitrations, such as challenge to arbitral awards, enforcement and execution of awards, as well interim relief applications. She also assists Indian clients in managing their litigations before foreign courts.

Shreya extensively advises clients on the drafting of international arbitration clauses and structuring of transactions from a disputes and enforcement perspective.

Ashwyn Misra is a Partner in Trilegal’s Mumbai office and is part of the Corporate practice group. Ashwyn focuses mainly on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, private equity and fund formation. He has vast experience with transactions in various sectors in India and advises clients on several aspects from an Indian legal perspective, including structuring advice, regulatory impact on entry and exit strategies, due diligence, documentation and negotiations, partnerships, inbound and outbound investments, strategic cross-border financial deals, mergers and joint ventures.

Prior to joining MCIA, Neeti has extensively worked in the field of International Commercial Arbitration, both as a private practitioner representing clients and as an administrator, facilitating the dispute resolution procedure. Neeti’s past professional experience includes working with some of the top Indian Law Firms like Trilegal and Economic Laws Practice. She has also worked at the International Arbitration Department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Paris Office, besides being judicial clerk for Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Muralidhar of Delhi High Court.

Neeti has also worked with LCIA India as its First Deputy Registrar. She is also active in the academic circle and is an academic advisor at KIIT Law School, Orissa. Neeti is also a guest faculty at HNLU Raipur and at National Law University, New Delhi. Ms Sachdeva has obtained a Masters in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University, and has also undertaken a course in Private International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague. She is regularly invited as a speaker at various conferences and conducts workshops in the field of arbitration. She is an office bearer at the IBA Arbitration Committee and regularly sits as an Arbitrator too.

Nicholas Blank has lived and worked in the Greater China region for more than 20 years, managing a wide variety of investigations, including those pertaining to conflicts of interest, corruption, and intellectual property theft.

He is often positioned on the front line of investigations and has particular expertise leading whistleblower-initiated internal investigations that meld human intelligence collection, digital forensics reviews, and overt interviews.

In addition to his expertise in China, Nicholas has extensive on-the-ground experience in India, Vietnam, and South Korea, where he has assisted companies and investors with numerous due diligence, internal compliance, and fraud investigations. He recently undertook inquiries in India to assist a client engaged in a high-stakes activist investor dispute. While in South Korea he led a review that identified multiple employee fraud schemes designed to funnel money from our client’s construction project. Nicholas has experience conducting interviews, managing document reviews, and guiding clients through crisis situations that occur within numerous corporate structures ranging from listed companies to state-owned enterprises.

Clients quoted in Chambers say of Nick “Nicholas Blank is hands down one of the top investigators in the region” and “Nicholas Blank is an excellent investigator, unbelievably detail-oriented, and delivers good value for his clients.”

Nicholas began his career in Shanghai assisting multinational firms in the development of brand protection and enforcement programs. He was involved in some of the largest trademark infringement and enforcement actions in history. As well as leading incident-driven investigations throughout China, Nicholas helped clients prospectively protect their intellectual property and trade secrets by completing security reviews of offices and manufacturing sites, monitoring gray market activity, and conducting background investigations into employees with access to trade secrets.

Nicholas was later the head of investigations in a global risk consulting firm, where he managed multiple engagements across the Asia-Pacific region. These included investigating complex theft of a commodity at a manufacturing site in Southeast Asia; an investigation — referred for criminal prosecution — into a Hong Kong employee suspected of having a beneficial interest in a subcontractor; and a digital forensics investigation into the theft of a client’s prototype design.

Jenna Burton has more than a decade of experience in business intelligence, investigations, and litigation/arbitration support, with a particular focus on the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

Jenna specializes in complex global disputes and asset recovery, her work includes leading investigations in support of international arbitrations heard in ICSID, the ICC, UNCITRAL, the LCIA, and local tribunals, with individual claims ranging in value from millions to approximately $1.5 billion. Jenna has also lead investigations and provided evidence for litigation in the US, UK, and other jurisdictions. This includes successful disclosure applications under §1782. She has also drafted statements and provided evidence submitted to OFAC, the NCA, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and other government and multilateral authorities, both in support and in defense of allegations.

Jenna’s investigations have involved government corruption, bribery (including FCPA and UK Bribery Act), money laundering, terrorism financing, sanctions violations, embezzlement, and self-dealing. She has worked extensively on matters concerning Iraq and Kurdistan, as well as the energy and telecommunications sectors.

Jenna has conducted asset-tracing investigations spanning offshore jurisdictions, MENA, Africa, Europe, and the US, including against debtors undergoing restructuring or liquidation. She has extensive experience in recovery against sovereigns, identifying assets exempt from sovereign immunity and in enforcement-friendly jurisdictions.

Her fieldwork includes identifying witnesses and whistleblowers and conducting dozens of interviews in English and Arabic. She has also worked closely with communications teams in supporting clients’ PR strategies.