Our Team
A Power Team
Rich in Experience and Expertise
A Power Team
Ruchika Tandon
Corporate & Commercial | Corporate Compliance and Corporate Governance | Mergers & Acquisitions |Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) | Employment
Ruchika has over 13 years of experience. Over the years she has worked with renowned law firms in Delhi and Dubai. Her core areas of practice include general corporate-commercial advisory and transactions including documentation such as JVA, BTA, ESOP, and advisory in respect of corporate compliance, ESG and employment laws.
She has handled various legal due diligence mandates for clients across varied sectors including but not limited to IT / ITES companies, non-banking financial corporations (NBFC), insurance broking companies and real estate developers, etc.
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She regularly advises and assists clients in setting up of companies in India and the UAE, besides being involved in winding up / strike-off of companies in both the jurisdictions.
She also holds relevant experience and expertise for having rendered corporate advisory services in connection with regulations / guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India, the Foreign Exchange Management Act, the Companies Act, 2013 and regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
She has also advised clients on employment law aspects relating to Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
She remains continuously involved with the labour and employment issues in India including advising on matters involving harassment such as prevention of sexual harassment and/or matters involving female workforce, etc.
Nandita Khurana
Nandita has over three and a half decades of experience as a legal practitioner. The experience Nandita has gathered over the years as a legal professional has been with focus on multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary matters. While during her early years in the legal profession, Nandita counseled various domestic as well as foreign multinational corporations on varied aspects of corporate & commercial transactions involving disciplines such as intellectual property, M&A, real estate, taxation, technology and licensing, etc., she also led a Fortune 500 company for over 14 years, as the Regional General Counsel & Policy Head. International legal matter management is her forte since as the Regional General Counsel & Policy Head she was based in Singapore with oversight of Australia and other South-East Asian countries and whilst working in India was responsible for Africa and Middle-East.
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Nandita has mentored management teams and headed compliance for corporates. She has also led the Public Affairs function where she interfaced with policy makers & coordinated strategy for the business future of various corporations.
Having held leadership positions within some of the prominent multinational corporations, Nandita is well-versed with operational aspects of various businesses and has the expertise to identify problems and roadblocks at early stages and provide effective solutions, when needed.
She is a commercially astute and solutions-focused legal professional, possessing a track record of spearheading teams to facilitate innovative legal solutions and drive bottom-line across multi-million-dollar organizations. A thought leader and calm demeanor with strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity.
Proficient in administering end-to-end legal projects, and leading cross-border transactions while adhering to corporate and business laws. Highly skilled in defining code of ethics and organizational values to manage business under legally and socially acceptable norms. She is resourceful in formulating and executing legal, corporate and JV strategies, designing public policies, directing large-scale corporate contract negotiations, and resolving employees and IR disputes. Experienced in managing litigations in all the courts.
Nandita is also adept at fostering stellar relationships with CXO’s, teams, clients, various departments within ministries of Central and State Governments which aid her to engage, inspire and provide compelling value to the stakeholders. Providing advice on Compliance, Ethics & Risk management are one of her key skills.
Nandita completed her graduation from St. Stephen’s College in the year 1984 and thereafter, studied law at Faculty of Law, Delhi University, which she completed in the year 1987.
Nandita likes to pursue her hobbies and interest during her free time, and she is a keen traveler and likes trekking. She loves reading and often engaged in public speaking besides offering life coaching.
Tanvi Pandey
Tanvi is an Associate in the Corporate Law, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment and White Collar Crime practices of the Firm.
She has been involved in several matters involving Labour & Employment laws, Corporate laws and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), etc.
Tanvi is also a member of Anhad Law’s practice involving Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) and related compliances.
Tanvi Pandey completed her LLB from Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur.
Sumit K Jha
Sumit is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution practice of the Firm.
He has been actively involved in matters involving varied legal subjects including but not limited to Criminal Cases, Economic offences, Customs Act, Companies Act, Indian Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRT), State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Family Disputes, Regulatory and Administrative matters.
Sumit Kumar Jha is an alumnus of GGSIPU, New Delhi.
Amrita is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution and Labour & Employment practices of the Firm. She is based out of the New Delhi office of the Firm.
Amrita has been assisting companies across a range of industries, including Information Technology, Electronics, Manufacturing, Services and Real Estate.
Amrita regularly appears before District Courts, Labour Courts, High Courts, and Tribunals.
Amrita graduated from the University of Delhi, and is registered with the Bar Council of Delhi. She also holds a diploma in Intellectual Property Rights from the Indian Society of International Laws, New Delhi.
Deepam Rangwani
Naman Sethi
NAMAN SETHI is a qualified Company Secretary and has been assisting clients for six years. He has extensive knowledge of corporate compliance including secretarial compliance. He has varied experience in all areas of Audit, Investigation, Due Diligence, Taxation (Direct and Indirect), and Company Law Matters for both domestic and foreign companies, NBFC Compliances, NCLT Matters, Management Consultancy, Information System Audit and FEMA.
Naman also assists companies in intellectual property registration & related advisory.
Manish Bhalla
Manish is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with more than three decades of post qualification experience in Advisory, Tax Planning and M&A matters.
He is direct tax specialist advising on a range of matters relating to Direct Taxation including permanent establishment (PE), attribution of income and nature of payments related matters, investment structuring/ strategies; and ESOPs, ESOS and RSU’s, etc.
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He is well versed with matters relating to Goods and Services Tax, Foreign Exchange laws and Corporate laws.
He regularly represents clients before government and appellate authorities on tax related matters.
Manish has considerable experience across sectors, including Private Equity Funds, Automobile Ancillary, Banking, Insurance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Information Technology (IT) and FMCG, etc.
Earlier Manish has worked with a few large accounting and leading law firms in India.
Ranjan Jha
Employment Law | Dispute Resolution | Commercial Law/ Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption
Ranjan has over two decades of experience dealing with matters involving employment laws, corporate-commercial laws anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, amongst others.
Ranjan has represented many prominent Indian and foreign multinationals corporations, operating across varied sectors/industries, including but not limited to, aviation, hospitality, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, IT/ITeS etc.,
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Over the years, Ranjan has not only gained the necessary skills and experience in delivering comprehensive legal advice in high-stake, complex transactions (both domestic and cross border), but he is also skilled and experienced to deliverable legal support on dispute resolution fore, particularly involving contractual and other disputes that are generally borne out of corporate-commercial transaction areas.
Ranjan is a member of Bar Council of Delhi, India, Supreme Court Bar Association and Delhi High Court Bar Association. Ranjan was also an elected member of CII Task Force on Legal Services, for the year 2020-21. Before joining the Firm, Ranjan was a Partner at Bhasin & Co., Advocates.
Dhruv Gandhi
Real Estate & Construction | Corporate & Commercial | Dispute Resolution | Insolvency & Bankruptcy | Consumer
Dhruv has experience of close to one and a half-decades and he has been regularly advising foreign multinationals and major Indian multinational corporations on real estate and construction-related laws, besides general corporate-commercial advisory.
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Dhruv regularly advises stakeholders like developers, investors, funds, and landowners, on legal and regulatory issues associated with real estate construction & development projects, including pre and/or post-construction licenses, approvals, and permits required for the development of commercial, industrial and residential projects.
Dhruv has substantial experience in reviewing and drafting real estate transactional documents such as agreements to sell, conveyance deeds, lease deeds, leave & license agreements, collaboration agreements, indemnity deeds, bonds and guarantees, etc.
Dhruv’s areas of focus in contentious matters also cover disputes over the inheritance of estate and other disputes of civil nature, commercial contracts involving breach of obligations, specific performance, recovery of contractual dues, liquidated damages and enforcement of security, etc.
Dhruv is empanelled with the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA), as part of the specialized panel of senior legal services lawyers, before the Delhi State Consumer Commission.
Prior to Anhad Law, Dhruv was a Partner of Gandhi Legal and before that a Principal Associate at Kochhar & Co., New Delhi..
Deepak Gandhi
EOW | SFIO | CBI | SPECIAL CELL | SEBI | CESTAT | COFEPOSA | PMLA BAR ADMISSION India (Advocate)
Mr. Deepak Gandhi has been in active practice for over four decades. He enjoys a distinguished reputation as an expert criminal defence lawyer. Mr. Gandhi has hands-on experience of dealing with various contentious criminal litigation matters, through their procedural lifecycle, from investigation/trial till appellate stage.
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Mr. Gandhi is a noted arguing counsel. He is adept at delivering thorough, well-considered, straightforward advice on legal matters, and to devise legal strategy that is best suited and apt to deal with a particular matter.
Mr. Gandhi has a deep understanding and experience of dealing with writ petitions, criminal litigation involving white collar crimes and socio-economic offences such as misappropriation/embezzlement of funds, money laundering and corruption, also a criminal breach of trust, cheating, matters involving narcotics violations, extradition of fugitive criminals, including trial, sentencing, appeals, revisions and review in such matters.
Till date, Mr. Gandhi has made notable contributions to the field of criminal law, and has many reported judgements. Mr. Gandhi often takes up matters on pro-bono basis, he has many reported judgements on the point where constitutional rights of accused persons and prisoners have been protected and upheld, particularly in cases where accused persons had been subjected to illegal detention, were deprivation of statutory, legal and/or constitutional rights.
Manishi Pathak
Manishi Pathak is the Founder and Managing Partner of ANHAD LAW.
Manishi has experience of over three decades. His areas of practice include dispute resolutions, labour and employment, corporate investigations, compliance audit and investigation into non-compliance of anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, besides advisory and transactional supports on matters involving other corporate and commercial laws.
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Manishi is also known for his expertise in the area of mergers and acquisitions/ joint ventures, corporate restructuring and re-organizations besides his government relations work.
He has been appreciated by clients for his hands-on approach and for providing solution-oriented sound legal advice which is commercially and practically tenable. He is also known for offering unique blend of analytical thinking and business strategy, while structuring, negotiating and closing complex commercial transactions and resolution of disputes including mediation and arbitration.
Manishi also has vast experience of delivering advisory support in areas of law, including but not limited to contentious commercial disputes, regulatory compliances (involving exchange control regulations in addition to other regulatory matters), compliance advisory under various corporate and commercial laws, rules etc. (under applicable Central and/or State).
Manishi’s primary area of interest and specialization besides dispute resolution and government relations is Labour and Employment laws. He enjoys a distinguished status and standing in the sphere of Labour and Employment law practice. He is widely recognized as a ‘top ranked specialist’ in this area of practice owing to his deep knowledge and vast experience of dealing with range of matters in the domain of labour and employment laws practice including court litigation and appellate work.
Manishi has retained most top accolades on offer by leading global legal ranking bodies such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 etc., in the field of Labour and Employment laws in India. For over last decade, Manishi and he been retained title of ‘Top Ranked’ ‘Leading Practitioner’, ‘Specialist’, owing to established expertise and in-depth knowledge he possesses in the sphere of Labour and Employment laws practice in India.
Manishi is considered to be one of the first legal professionals who identified the scope, ambit and applicability of various central and state specific labour and employment legislations in India, while making foreign and Indian multinational corporations having business presence in India recognize the importance of compliance to various labour and employment laws related legislations in India.
Undisputedly, in the context of Indian scenario, Manishi is regarded as the legal professional who played a pivotal role that lead to recognition and acceptance of ‘labour and employment’ laws as a prominent and established area of practice, amongst other practice areas.
As the practice head, Manishi is actively involved in advising on a wide range of labour laws related queries, preparation and standardization of employment agreements and other agreements such as non-compete and non-solicitation agreement, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, HR policies/handbooks/manuals etc., including structuring of ESOPs, closure of businesses, termination/transfer of employees, other termination related issues, trade union related disputes, social security and/or insurance claims, etc. The Firm predominantly represents companies/corporations and their management on employment related projects and litigation.
Manishi also leads members of the firm on matters involving employment audits, whistle-blower investigations, closure of establishments, transfer of business and undertakings, sexual harassment complaints, employer and employee rights and matters involving trade unions. He is also known for his involvement in investigations and/or enquiries concerning employees including in matters of misconduct by employees and/or associated parties.
Prior to founding Anhad Law, Manishi has been the Partner of other renowned law firms of India.
Manishi has considerable experience of representing clients belonging to manufacturing as well as services business, across varied sectors including but not limited to automobiles, aviation, banking, chemicals, commerce, electronics, FMCG, information technology, paper, packaging, pharmaceuticals, ports, real estate, retail and telecommunications, amongst others.
He has authored several publications on Indian Labour & Employment law for Kluwer Law and Law Business Research and he writes and speaks regularly on a range of subjects, including foreign investment in India and Labour and Employment law.
Some of his prominent publications include “Restrictive Covenants” (India Chapter) by Kluwer Law Publication; “Hiring and retaining Talent” (India Chapter) by Kluwer Law Publication; “Getting The Deal Through (Labour & Employment)”, India Chapter by Law Business Research; Labour and Employment Compliance in India, 9 editions, published by Kluwer Law since 2008 including of 2021.
He has also authored “India Chapter on Employment Law in the Employment Law Review” by Law Business Research since 2010 -15. Manishi also contributed to National Law School Publication (Business Law Review) “An overview of contract labour related laws in India”. He has also contributed to the World Bank Group‘s publication Employing Workers 2021.
Manishi is a member and was an officer of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is also a member of the Delhi High Court Bar Association and Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA).
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