Chitra, having over 14 years of experience, has built a stellar reputation for advising and representing clients in marquee disputes involving multiple stakeholders, significant financial exposure, and complex legal and regulatory issues. Notably, she has advised and successfully represented a resolution applicant in the first-ever corporate insolvency resolution process of a non-banking financial company.
She advises and represents leading Indian conglomerates, energy companies, financial institutions, multinational corporations and emerging growth companies on complex and consequential commercial matters spanning insolvency and restructuring, debt recovery, and domestic and international arbitration. She regularly appears before the Supreme Court and High Courts across the country, as well as NCLTs, NCLAT, DRTs and institutional and ad hoc arbitral tribunals across India. She also appears before specialised quasi-judicial forums such as the PMLA Adjudicating Authority and PMLA Appellate Tribunal.
She has secured favourable outcomes in several high-stakes commercial disputes, commercial arbitrations and arbitration-related litigation.
- Advised and represented Oil and Natural Gas Corporation before the Bombay High Court in a post-award challenge and secured post-award interim reliefs relating to a turnkey contract for the construction and commissioning of an offshore petroleum facility.
- Successfully represented Mr. Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO & MD of HDFC Bank, in quashing an FIR alleging cheating and criminal breach of trust, and successfully defended attempted search and seizure proceedings before a Mumbai Magistrate Court.
- Advised a major Indian national oil and gas exploration company in arbitration proceedings against a consortium where one constituent party was acquired through a liquidation process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
- Successfully advised and represented Piramal Capital & Housing Finance in the INR 34,250 crore acquisition of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation under the first-ever corporate insolvency resolution process of a non-banking financial company, and secured discharge from prosecution in a INR 5,050 crore money laundering matter under Section 32A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
- Successfully represented L&T Infra Investment Partners before the Karnataka High Court and Supreme Court in relation to an LCIA arbitration, reaffirming that anti-arbitration injunctions cannot be granted against India-seated arbitrations.
- Arbitration
- Bankruptcy
- Commercial Disputes
- Construction and Real Estate
- Dispute Resolution
- Energy and Construction
- Entertainment
- Government and Regulatory
- Insolvency
- Insurance
- International Arbitration
- Shipping
- White Collar Crime
- Banking
- Consumer Goods and Services
- Energy
- Food and Beverage
- Industrials
- Insurance
- Media
- Natural Resources
- Real Estate
- Shipping
- Technology and Telecommunications
- LLM., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2014
- B.A. LLB. (Hons.), National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, University of Law, Hyderabad (NALSAR), 2011
- IWIRC India Chapter, Served as Secretary
- Indian Women in International Arbitration, Steering Committee Member
- Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, 2026, Recognised as "Future Star" in White-Collar Crime
- The Economic Times Global Legal Awards 2025-26, Awarded Excellence in Compliance & Investigations / White-Collar Crime Practice
- GIR 100 2024 and GIR 100 2025, Featured
- The LegalOne Blue Ribbon, 2026, Recognised among "Top 15 Dispute Resolution Lawyers"
- Bar Council of Delhi, 2011