Naval Chopra

Practice Areas

Naval has been practicing antitrust/competition law since its inception in India. Prior to that he was an M&A lawyer.

Career

Naval’s practice focuses on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has been involved in some of the most prominent abuse of dominance and merger control cases in India and is particularly skilled in advising on antitrust aspects of technology related matters. He also has extensive expertise in advising on cartel and price fixing allegations.

Naval successfully represented Uber in the Supreme Court, which held that taxi-aggregators Uber and Ola had not engaged in “hub and spoke” cartel activity.

Previously Naval advised Bharat Matrimony in the only successful abuse of dominance case against Google and in 2020.

Professional Memberships

Bar Council of Delhi; New York Bar Association; Law Society, England & Wales

Publications

Naval is a regular contributor to journals and other publications. His article titled ‘The Curious Case of Compulsory Licensing in India’, won the Concurrences World Antitrust Writing Awards.

Personal

Who’s Who Legal recognised him as ‘Global Leader’ for Competition in 2021. He has been ranked by by Chambers and Partners for Competition and Antitrust since 2018.

Naval is holds LL.M, from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and LL.B, from ILS Law College, Pune