Aditya Chatterjee

Partner, Bengaluru

Aditya is a Partner at Keystone Partners, specialising in complex civil and commercial litigation. He regularly serves as counsel in international and domestic arbitrations and is frequently retained for cross-examinations in court trials and arbitral proceedings. 

He appears before various fora in Delhi and Bengaluru, including the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts of Delhi and Karnataka, handling shareholder disputes, intellectual property claims, and a range of commercial disputes and arbitrations. His clients span the hospitality, technology & AI, FMCG, food & beverage, real estate, infrastructure, and defence sectors. 

His notable court-facing mandates include representing a leading defence manufacturer before the Supreme Court and the High Court of Delhi, and acting for a major luxury hospitality corporation in arbitration against an NBFC. He has argued briefs for a leading aerospace manufacturer on foreign trade regulations and special economic zones in the Supreme Court, and led public procurement matters, real estate and construction disputes, land and regulatory matters before the High Court of Karnataka.  

On the arbitration side, he has acted for a US railroad bogie manufacturer in a goods supply and IP dispute, represented a major sports television network in a broadcasting licence dispute, and acted for landowners in a real estate dispute involving claims exceeding INR 500 crores. 

In public law, Aditya appeared before the Supreme Court on the conduct of civil services examinations during Covid-19 lockdowns and acted for a regional political party challenging the abrogation of Article 370. 

Aditya has previously also worked with AZB & Partners. 

Qualifications

LL.M. (UC Berkeley, 2017)

BA LL.B. (Hons.) (Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar)

Admitted to Practice (Indian Bar, 2012)

Registered Practitioner (Part II) (Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC), UAE)

Achievements

Rising Star, Arbitration – Benchmark Litigation, 2024, 2025 and 2026

Key lawyer for litigation at Keystone Partners – Legal 500

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Arbitration
  • Representing landowners from a globally reputed charitable organization in a real estate dispute with claims in excess of INR 500 crores
  • Represented the majority shareholders of a multi-national FMCG conglomerate in an arbitration seated in Sweden and conducted as per the rules of LCIA.
  • Represented a US based railroad corporation in an ad-hoc international commercial arbitration before a three-member arbitral tribunal in disputes arising out of a railway supply contract, and related intellectual property issues.
  • Secured dismissal of a claim against a major US based sporting television network in an ad hoc international commercial arbitration involving a television broadcasting contract.
  • Represented a leading South African conglomerate in a shareholder dispute in the aviation sector.
  • Represented a large multimedia corporation in enforcing and defending a challenge to an award passed under ICC Rules, in India.
  • Resisted enforcement of an Emergency Award (passed under SIAC Rules) while acting for a UK based investor against an Indian food & beverage company, in proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).
  • Represented a market-leader in the luxury hospitality industry in arbitration
  • proceedings against an NBFC.
  • Was engaged for cross-examination of witnesses and leading arguments in a shareholders dispute of a prominent F&B corporation.
  • Represented a Mauritian company in an ad-hoc international commercial arbitration arising out of a shareholder dispute over the exercise of a right of first refusal.
  • Secured summary award from an ad-hoc arbitral tribunal for a large-scale infrastructure building corporation over a contractual dispute with a state-owned manufacturing entity.

Complex Commercial Litigation & Insolvency litigation
  • Representing a guarantor against a co-guarantor in a banking dispute involving loan amounts of over ₹700 crores.
  • Appearing for an international fund in a trademark infringement action in the Commercial Court, Bengaluru
  • Representing parties in a shareholder’s dispute arising from an SHA in the High Court of Karnataka.
  • Appeared in the High Court of Karnataka in a matter involving impleadment in an arbitration of non-signatories under the Group of Companies doctrine.
  • Advised the Interim Resolution Professional in the insolvency proceedings of a large tech-based hotel aggregator.
  • Represented a multi-national resolution applicant before the NCLT and NCLAT in the insolvency resolution of a corporation involved in the power sector.
  • Represented the resolution professional before the NCLAT in a cross-border insolvency resolution of a corporation in the airline industry.
  • Appeared for the successful resolution applicant in the CIRP involving one of India’s largest power generation corporations.
  • Advised a major software company in resisting insolvency and winding-up proceedings arising out of issuance of FCCBs worth €42 million.
  • Negotiated settlements and restructuring agreements for a leather manufacturing company for claimed debts worth ₹30 crores, with a nationalized bank and a securitization company.
  • school in a suit filed against it for payment of liquidated damages. The suit was dismissed with imposition of costs on the plaintiff.
  • Represented a software company in a contractual dispute initiated by a former employee seeking reinstatement into service and back wages from the date of termination of his employment contract.
  • Represented a major life sciences corporation and technology company in a law-suits for injunction against its former employees who had misappropriated the companies’ confidential information.

Corporate Sector
  • Ongoing general corporate advisory to an investor-company investing in the health industry.
  • Advising a Singapore based data-science corporation in Series A and B VC funding, and incorporation of subsidiaries overseas.
  • Advising an Indo-French joint-venture in settlement through majority shareholders buying out minority shareholders.
  • Represented the majority shareholders of a multi-national FMCG conglomerate in shareholder disputes before the NCLT.
  • Represented a US based world leader in the electric and energy sector in a cross-border investment and shareholder dispute before the Nation al Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
  • Currently representing the minority shareholders of a real-estate company in oppression and mismanagement proceedings pending before the NCLT and NCLAT.
  • Secured summary dismissal of a winding-up petition filed against a multi-national software company.
  • Successfully represented a machine-tool company in proceedings under the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court. The High Court ordered that the company be permitted to protect its registered design under the Designs Act, 2000, and its confidential information as per common law, in two distinct proceedings.
  • Advised the minority shareholders of a large UK based company in securing a negotiated exit after being forced into a deadlock following a disputed round of capital infusion. Successfully averted litigation and secured strategic benefits for the client.
  • Advised and acted for a major big-data analytics company in an asset transfer, intellectual property and share distribution dispute with a Singapore-based corporation, consequently averted litigation.

Criminal Litigation & Advisory
  • Representing a Mumbai based manufacturing unit in proceedings initiated by Directorate of Enforcement, and other investigating agencies, Bengaluru.
  • Advised a marketing professional in relation to investigation conducted by Directorate of Enforcement, Guwahati.
  • Representing legatees of certain assets which are the subject of investigation under PMLA, 2002 by the concerned investigating agencies.
  • Advocating for retired employees of a state-owned corporation in a prosecution under Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 et. al.

Litigation in the Writ Jurisdiction
  • Represented an aviation company in contesting customs penalties before the High Court of Delhi.
  • Represented an astronomer in proceedings before the High Court of Karnataka against allegations of data theft. Secured issuance of a writ of mandamus to the Union of India for the equitable use of state-owned space observatories.
  • Secured quashing of a blacklisting order passed by a leading State-owned company against a tech-company.
  • Represented a prominent multinational app-based transport aggregator in writ proceedings against imposition of license restrictions by the State of Karnataka.
  • Represented Civil Services aspirants in writ proceedings before the Supreme Court of India.

TESTIMONIALS

Benchmark Litigation, 2024: “Very professional approach and inclusive in nature. His knowledge is good over legal matters. Very transparent and comes across very open as a person. Quite impressive in nature.”

PUBLICATIONS

  • Arbitrating fraud: The serious fraud exception and its shrinking boundaries, Bar & Bench, June 2026
  • Specific Performance And The Cloud-Of-Doubt: When Is Declaratory Relief Required, Bar & Bench, December 2025
  • Two Monumental Red Fort Trials – Bahadur Shah Zafar To INA, LiveLaw, August 2025
  • Gayatri Balasamy v. ISG Novasoft: A point of convergence for the majority and the dissent?, Bar & Bench, July 2025
  • Assignment Of Arbitration Clauses In India – Discovering Consent To Arbitrate, LiveLaw, June 2025 (Co-authored with Tvishi Pant)
  • The Specific Relief Amendment – Katta Sujatha Reddy – Judgment, Review, And Riddle, LiveLaw, March 2025
  • An Analysis Of Katta Sujatha Reddy (Part I) – Is The Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018: A Prospective Or A Retrospective Legislation?, LiveLaw, October 2024.
  • An Analysis Of Katta Sujatha Reddy (Part II) – Should The Application Of The Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018 Be Determined Based On The Date Of Transaction Or The Date Of Cause Of Action?, LiveLaw, October 2024.
  • Enforcement of Judgments – India: Trends & Developments 2024, Chambers & Partners, July 2024 (Co-authored with Arun Sri Kumar, Kritanjali Sarda and Akshita Goyal).
  • The Dilemma Around the Limitation Period for Enforcement of Foreign Awards – has the Supreme Court Tied the Loose Ends?, Practical Lawyer, January 2021
  • How the Constituent Assembly Debated (and Rejected) Citizenship by Religion, The Wire, February 2020.
  • Anticipatory Bail: From Sibbia to Chidambaram, The Quint, September 2019.
  • Farewell, Uncle Kathy!, Economic & Political Weekly, May 2017.
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