Amitava Majumdar

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Mr. Amitava Majumdar, also known in the industry as “Raja,” is the founding Managing Partner of Bose & Mitra & Co., one of India's largest boutique law firms, exclusively working in the shipping, insurance, commodities, and oil and gas industries. Over the past decade, Mr. Majumdar has been rated as a Band 1 lawyer, and Bose & Mitra & Co. has been rated as a Tier 1 law firm by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 in Shipping. Mr Majumdar has appeared as Arguing Counsel for the winning party in several reported judgments issued by the Supreme Court of India, Gujarat High Court, Bombay High Court, Kerala High Court, Madras High Court, Andhra Pradesh High Court and the Calcutta High Court dealing with inter alia Arrests, freezing injunction applications and applications for enforcement and execution of foreign arbitral awards and foreign judgments as also complex arbitrations on charterparty disputes and commodity sale contracts. He is one of the leading lawyers for Collisions, Allusions and Salvage matters in India working with Shipowners, P&I Clubs, H&M Insurance and Charterers. Apart from contentious matters, Mr Majumdar is extensively involved in non-contentious transactional work on all facets of shipping and has expertise in ship sale and purchase having done over 300 ship sale purchase transactions including advising banks and shipowners on the Finance Documentation. He also works with the office of the Directorate General of Shipping, India on legislative and policy issues.