Ranking tables
Global India Competition/Antitrust
Rankings overview for Departments
Band 1
AZB & Partners 11 Years Ranked
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co 12 Years Ranked- Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
- Khaitan & Co
Band 3
Touchstone Partners 10 Years Ranked- Chandhiok & Mahajan
- JSA
- Luthra and Luthra Law Offices India
Band 4
TT&A 12 Years Ranked- DSK Legal
- Gaggar & Partners
- P & A Law Offices
- Sarvada Legal
Senior Statespeople
Eminent Practitioners
Band 1
- Harman Sandhu Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co11 Years Ranked
- Nisha Uberoi Trilegal10 Years Ranked
- Avaantika Kakkar
- Manas Kumar Chaudhuri
Band 2
Band 3
- Aparna Mehra Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co5 Years Ranked
- Bharat Budholia AZB & Partners4 Years Ranked
- Ram Kumar Poornachandran AZB & Partners8 Years Ranked
- Abdullah Hussain
- Abir Roy
- Anshuman Sakle
- Vaibhav Choukse
Band 4
Gaurav Desai Touchstone Partners2 Years Ranked- Hemangini Dadwal AZB & Partners3 Years Ranked
- Sonam Mathur TT&A4 Years Ranked
- Yaman Verma Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co3 Years Ranked
- Anisha Chand
- Deeksha Manchanda
- Kanika Chaudhary Nayar
- Sagardeep Rathi
- Vijay Pratap Singh Chauhan
Up and Coming
- Gautam Chawla Trilegal1 Years Ranked
- Dhruv Rajain
- Kirthi Srinivas
- Pranjal Prateek
All Departments profiles
Band 1
1 AZB & PartnersCompetition/Antitrust2023 | Band 1 | 11 Years RankedAZB & Partners houses a respected and holistic competition offering across India, handling both merger control and contentious mandates, as well as compliance services. Its areas of expertise include cartel, price-fixing and abuse of dominance investigations and litigation. The competition team is known for its representation of leading domestic and global corporates in the technology space, as well as aviation and energy. The team is adept at assisting clients with leniency applications to the Competition Commission of India. AZB's antitrust law expertise is located across India, with particularly strong expertise in Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru. Its key clients include Google, Swiggy and Star India.1 Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & CoCompetition/Antitrust2023 | Band 1 | 12 Years RankedShardul Amarchand Mangaldas has a standout practice with experience covering the full spectrum of Indian competition law. The firm is fully equipped to assist domestic and international clients involved in the largest of cross-border transactions or the most complex and sensitive of disputes. Its competition team is particularly noted for its handling of merger reviews, abuse of dominance issues and leniency applications, and for its good working relationship with the regulatory authorities. Additionally, the team is prized for the breadth of its geographic coverage and its deep personnel strength, with a particularly strong competition team based in Delhi. The firm represents high-profile clients across the automotive, natural resources, technology, pharmaceutical and e-commerce sectors, including Facebook, Uber and Fiat Chrysler.
Band 2
2 Economic Laws PracticeCompetition/Antitrust2023 | Band 2 | 12 Years RankedEconomic Laws Practice has a respected competition team in India with a particularly impressive offering on the enforcement side. The firm is notably active for major domestic and international clients in the technology sector, as well as the transportation, manufacturing, telecommunications and media industries. The team often handles matters relating to cartels, abuse of dominance and price fixing, as well as merger control. Economic Laws Practice has offices across India, with its competition team particularly active from the firm's Delhi base.
2 TrilegalCompetition/Antitrust2023 | Band 2 | 8 Years RankedTrilegal has a specialised competition law practice with an impressive geographic footprint, especially operating from offices in Mumbai and Delhi. The firm acts for both Indian and foreign clients on a wide range of competition issues, including defence against cartel and abuse of dominance allegations and complex merger filings. Its competition team is often sought out specifically to handle the competition aspects of key transactions, valued by US and European counterparts as a favoured collaborator for cross-border mandates. The team also acts for leading local and global names in the automotive, manufacturing and technology sectors, including Grasim and Apple.
Band 3
3 Touchstone PartnersCompetition/Antitrust2023 | Band 3 | 10 Years RankedTouchstone Partners' team in Delhi is noted for its expertise in merger control matters in India, as well as antitrust enforcement work. Its team regularly acts for blue-chip multinationals across multiple sectors, including household names such as Whirlpool of India and Sun Pharmaceuticals, on their Indian competition law requirements, notably including the evaluation of regulatory risk. The team also advises on client interactions with the CCI and other regulatory bodies. The team is well practised in advising on cartel and abuse of dominance investigations.
Band 4
4 TT&ACompetition/Antitrust2023 | Band 4 | 12 Years RankedTT&A has solid experience across a range of competition issues in India, notably including large merger filings. The firm is well placed to advise international and domestic clients in equal measure, including within pharmaceuticals, technology, and broadcasting and media, as well as the petrochemical and energy spheres. Its team frequently advises on abuse of dominance and anti-competitive agreement matters, as well as competition compliance. TT&A's antitrust team is led from the firm's Delhi office.