Member Profile

Managing partner and counsel. Main areas of practice: aviation law, Supreme Court and High Court litigation, employment, labour and industrial law, consumer protection, joint ventures and collaborations, company law related matters, commercial arbitration, competition/antitrust law, real estate, international sale of goods, franchising and distribution law, information technology, public procurement, diplomatic privileges and international law. Recognitions: International Bar Association Commendation, 2010; World Bank Certificates of Appreciation 2011-15; ‘Asialaw Leading Lawyer Awards’ 2007 & 2008 for General Corporate Practice; ‘Who’s Who Legal’ 2007 & 2008 (Aviation Law), ‘Leading Individual’ (Corporate & M&A) India – ‘Chambers Asia’; ‘Who’s Who Legal’ 2009 to 2015 (Commercial Litigation, Franchise, Labour & Real Estate Law). Notable cases: Delta Air Lines, Inc. v Haresh Babubhai Daruwalla, Aviation case appeal favourably decided by the Supreme Court of India; Anjolie Ela Menon and Anr v State of Haryana & Others (Punjab & Haryana High Court) real estate case (decided May, 2013 and further relief in August 2015); Jyoti Swaroop Arora v. Tulip Infratech Ltd. (Competition case decided in favour of the real estate industry in February 2015); William Terrence Huntington v Mahabir Singh & Ors (High Court and Supreme Court favourable Orders on tort); Harjit K Dhingra v Pan American & Delta Air Lines (favourable final judgment on Successor liability). International work experience: Appointed Agent of Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (1996, 2006 and 2007, 2014), advisor to several governments (France, Canada, Singapore, Greece etc.), airlines and multinational companies, designated general counsel to Turkish Airlines (in India); concluded five nation project for the European Union.

Admitted to the Indian Bar (D-706/1992); associate, J. B. Dadachanji & Co. Advocates Supreme Court of India 1992-95; individual private practice, 1995-97; partner, Pasrich Kundra Bansal & Co, Advocates 1997-98; managing partner International, Law Affiliates 1998-2012; guest lecturer, Indian Society of International Law and Diplomacy 1999-2000; managing partner and counsel, I.L.A. Pasrich & Company 2012 to date. Conferences and papers/presentations: International Bar Association (IBA) Conferences at Tokyo (2014), Boston (2013), Dublin (2012), Dubai (2011), Vancouver (2010) etc. speaker and session chair in all of these conferences; organised an International Bar Association (IBA) conference in New Delhi, 2013; India Real Estate reports 2010 and 2011 for the publication ‘Getting the Deal Through’, co-author: ‘International Distribution Institute India Report’ on Agency 2011, IBA, IPBA and other conferences from 1997-2009 – multiple papers and sessions chaired.

Member, Supreme Court Bar Association (life); Delhi High Court Bar Association; The Honourable Society of The Inner Temple, London; International Bar Association, Inter-Pacific Bar Association; Indo-Canadian Business Chamber, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce. Positions held: Council Member, Legal Practice Division, International Bar Association (2015-16); Co-Chair International Sales Committee (2011- January 13), International Bar Association; Sr. Vice-Chair International Sales Committee (2009-10), International Bar Association; Chairperson Northern India Council – Indo-Canadian Business Chamber (2007-09), Vice-chair, Asia Pacific Forum of the International Bar Association (2007-2008); India Advisory Group of the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association (2007 onwards); Chair sub-committee on Financing of International Sales (2002-03), vice-chair IBA Sub-Committee on International Sales Conventions (2000-01); Director, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (2003-06); Director, Only Research Pvt. Ltd (Legalspider.com 2001-05); Director, Cashco (India) Pvt Ltd (1997-2015) etc. Indo-Hellenic Friendship League, Founder Trustee & Governing Body Member, Fellow – Royal Society of the Arts, India, Oxford & Cambridge Society of India governing body/committee. Member, 17th Governing Council, Bar Association of India 2012-13. -