Anant Merathia

Anant is a practicing litigation and alternative disputes resolution lawyer, with over 13 years’ experience. He holds formal overseas legal qualifications and has several years of experience both in India and in Singapore. Anant focuses on corporate, commercial litigations and arbitrations, RERA matters and is predominantly involved in corporate insolvency and restructuring of companies. He also provides clients with corporate advisory, shareholder litigations and commercial arbitrations. After completing his LLM at NUS, Singapore in 2006, Anant worked with Singapore law firms as a Registered Foreign Lawyer, in the corporate and arbitration practice groups. Anant has been actively involved in advising Singapore listed companies and other clients, on Indian law issues and on various international transactions and M&A. He has been engaged in exhaustive due diligence exercises, commercial agreements, joint ventures, investment and shareholder agreements, employee stock options schemes, etc. Anant also assisted in various international arbitration matters during his engagement with the international law firms. Anant moved back to India in 2009, and since then has been specializing in commercial disputes before several courts, and company law matters before the Company Law Board. He is regularly engaged by clients for arbitrations and commercial mediations. Over the past few years, Anant widely advises Financial & Operational Creditors, Corporate Debtors, Insolvency Professionals, Resolution Applicants, Guarantors, ex-managements, former CXOs, and has also appeared for employees being all stakeholders under Insolvency Code, 2016 in insolvency matters before NCLT Benches of Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad & Mumbai, as well as in NCLAT, Delhi. In arbitration practice, Anant appears for clients in contractual, commercial, infrastructure, engineering and joint venture disputes. Anant is also an active mediation counsel and has advised parties in complex shareholder disputes in mediation. Anant also acts as a Mediator in commercial disputes. Anant is also a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and empanelled as an Arbitrator or Mediator with various international organizations such as LCIA – Mauritius International Arbitration Centre, CIETAC, THAC, KLRCA, CRCICA, YMI Hague and others. Anant has been awarded the prestigious “Rising Star” Award in March 2016 by Legal Era Magazine at Mumbai and his firm has been awarded for an outstanding contribution and work done in the field of “Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016” by Indian Mediation Week and Niti Aayog in collaboration with NUJS and ODR ways. Anant is also a prominent speaker on Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and ADR mechanisms. He has delivered lectures at events of ICSI, ICAI, Institute of Directors, Federation of Indian Hire Purchase Associations, Finance Companies Association of India, Agra trade, Trevally, Rotary, Round Table, EO and many sector specific forums. Anant has also been a guest faculty at courses of CIARB, India; National Law School, Tricky; has done arbitration trainings at Myanmar& Bangladesh and presented a session of Mediation at WMO-THAC Conference in Bangkok amongst others. Anant regularly contributes articles to leading newspapers and journals, and lectures on a variety of current legal issues. Anant has been honoured with Full Registration as Foreign Lawyer in Singapore International Commercial Court. The Executive committee of Dubai International Arbitration Centre has included Anant in the DIAC40- Young Practitioners group.