Counsel for matters that demand clarity and a detail oriented approach.
A litigation and advisory practice representing individuals, businesses, promoters, directors and institutions across complex disputes, investigations and regulatory proceedings.
Focused and strategic representation in litigation, dispute resolution and advisory matters.
Every matter is approached with rigour, confidentiality, and an unwavering commitment to protecting our clients' rights and interests.
Chambers of Ajatshatru Singh Rawat advises and represents clients across civil and commercial litigation, insolvency and bankruptcy matters, white-collar and enforcement matters, criminal defence, and constitutional and writ matters. It appears before the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court, the National Company Law Tribunal, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, and district courts across Delhi.
Civil and commercial litigation forms the core of the practice. This includes contractual disputes arising out of commercial agreements, suits for recovery of money and specific performance, and company law matters such as disputes between shareholders and challenges to corporate action. The Chambers also has a substantial arbitration practice, appearing in domestic arbitration proceedings and in the enforcement and execution of arbitral awards, including proceedings under Sections 34 and 36 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. This work runs across both the trial and appellate stages, from the filing of the suit or petition through to execution of the final decree or award.
Insolvency and bankruptcy work forms another significant part of the practice, covering a matter's full arc under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. This includes filing petitions on behalf of financial and operational creditors under Sections 7 and 9, defending corporate debtors against such petitions, representing personal guarantors, and arguing appeals against orders passed during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process, before both the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and the Supreme Court.
The white-collar and enforcement practice involves representing clients in banking fraud investigations conducted by agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation, and in proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, before the Enforcement Directorate, the Special Courts, and the PMLA Appellate Tribunal. This work calls for close coordination between the criminal, regulatory, and civil dimensions of a single set of facts.
Beyond these three areas, the Chambers also handles criminal defence work, including economic offences, bail applications, and petitions seeking quashing of proceedings, at both the trial and appellate stages. Its writ practice covers constitutional matters before the Delhi High Court, including challenges to fraud and wilful defaulter classifications made by banks and financial institutions, argued under Article 226 of the Constitution.
Every brief the Chambers takes on, across each of these areas, is prepared to the same standard, from trial courts through to tribunals and appellate forums, so that a matter's strategy stays consistent from the first filing through to the final hearing.
Ajatshatru Singh Rawat
Ajatshatru holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, specialising in Financial and Investment Analysis, from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi.
Before founding his own chambers, he was a Senior Associate at N & Company Legal, where he specialised in Commercial Litigation and White-Collar Crime. Prior thereto, he was an Associate at NM Law Chambers, and a Counsel at the Chambers of Mr. Bharat Chugh, where he appeared primarily across the district courts in Delhi and the Delhi High Court in civil, criminal, commercial, and matrimonial matters, as well as arbitration proceedings. This early experience gave him significant exposure to trial advocacy and the procedural aspects of litigation.
His background in finance shapes how he practices. Reading a balance sheet, a term sheet, or a set of banking transactions comes naturally to him, in a way it may not for most litigators, and that understanding of how a business actually works carries directly into his white-collar and commercial litigation practice. In white-collar matters, where he represents promoters and corporate entities in banking fraud investigations and in proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, this understanding lets him engage with the underlying transactions in a more strategic manner. In commercial litigation, where disputes arising from contracts, company law, and the enforcement of arbitral awards are, at their core, business problems, that same understanding of the business behind the dispute shapes how he builds a case and advises on strategy.
A significant part of his practice also involves Insolvency and Bankruptcy law. He appears for financial and operational creditors, corporate debtors and corporate and personal guarantors in proceedings before the NCLT, and also in appellate proceedings before the NCLAT and the Supreme Court.
His criminal defence practice covers a wide range of matters, extending well beyond economic offences into general criminal law, including bail applications and petitions seeking quashing of proceedings, at both the trial and appellate stages.
Across all of these areas, he tries to bring the same preparation and care to every matter, regardless of the stakes involved or complexity.
How the Chambers approaches a matter.
The facts, commercial context and immediate risks.
The legal position, procedural landscape and possible outcomes.
Develop a clear course of action aligned with the client's priorities.
Execution following a detail oriented approach.