Anuj Berry
Partner - Dispute Resolution, White-Collar Crime
Commercial Litigation | Shareholder Disputes | Arbitration | White-collar Crime
Overview
Anuj Berry is a Partner at Trilegal and part of the firm’s Disputes practice. He holds expertise in managing a diverse practice portfolio while specialising in general commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, company law-related disputes and white-collar crime defence matters.
Anuj practices across all major forums with a focus on disputes before the Supreme Court of India. He has also handled ad-hoc international arbitrations for major domestic and multinational clients.
Anuj has been at the forefront of presenting multi-national corporations in large and politically sensitive anti-corruption and anti-money laundering investigations having a cross-border element. His expertise in such matters extends to advising the client and senior management in all aspects of such cross-border investigations starting from the internal fact finding, strategy to engage with the investigation agency, developing a defence strategy and representation before the courts. He also works closely with clients to guide them in cooperation approaches under the mutual legal assistance treaty regimes and extradition issues.
Anuj also advises corporations, boards of directors, audit committees on internal investigations regarding a wide range of alleged misconduct, including corruption, financial irregularities, and financial statement fraud. Some of the complex internal investigations he has led have had an interface with parallel regulatory investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Indian Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which were successfully closed basis the findings of the internal investigation.
Additionally, Anuj also helps navigate intense government and media scrutiny so that clients can maintain their business operations. He also advises on anti-bribery compliance and diligence aspects in case of investments in Indian companies.
Education
- BB.A. LL.B., (Hons.), National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
- BCL, University of Oxford
Admissions
Bar Council of Delhi
Recognition
- Band 3 for White-Collar Crime in Chambers and Partners (Asia-Pacific), 2022-2023
- Future Star by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Rankings, 2023
- Future Leader (Partners) for Investigations and Global Leader for Business Crime Defence – Corporates by Ranking for Who’s Who Legal, 2021-23
- Among India’s 50 ‘Rising Stars by Asian Legal Business, 2021
- Leading Lawyer for White-Collar Crime by The Legal 500, 2018-22
- The only Indian practitioner recognised among the world’s top 40 young investigations specialists by Global Investigation Review, 2020
- Among BW Legal World 40 under 40 by BW Businessworld, 2020
- ALB Asia Super Disputes Lawyers, 2021
- ALB India Rising Star, 2021
