Nitesh Jain
Partner - Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Overview
Nitesh Jain is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Trilegal. His practice focuses on court litigation, international and domestic commercial arbitrations, cross-border disputes, white-collar crimes practice and insolvency matters. He has extensive experience of litigating before Indian courts, including the Supreme Court, High Courts, trial courts, tribunals, and regulatory and quasi-judicial commissions. He regularly represents clients before ad-hoc and major arbitration institutions.
He has significant experience working on complex commercial and transactional disputes, building and executing an overall disputes resolution strategy. He has represented large conglomerates, banking and financial institutions, private equity funds, foreign investors, Indian and multinational corporations, including listed companies and other clients, on a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. His expertise includes representing clients and advising on shareholder disputes, commercial enforcement proceedings, international commercial arbitrations, contractual disputes, construction and EPC disputes, government policies and administrative law, disputes involving media law, insurance disputes, class actions, banking and finance disputes, banking fraud, insolvency, anti-money laundering law, white-collar crimes, investigations by authorities, and defamation.
Nitesh won the FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific 2025 Award for ‘Innovative Lawyers in Disputes & Crises Management’. He has been featured in The Economic Times ’40 Under Forty’ listing of India Inc.’s top young business leaders 2024 and recognized as the ’Top 10 Influential Dispute Resolution Lawyers in Mumbai’, India 2023 by Business Today which quoted ‘recognized for his extensive coverage of commercial litigation…capable of litigating matters in various courts, he is an indispensable asset to the industry’. He has been appointed as a Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR for the 2024-27 Mandate by ICC India.
Education
- LL.M., London School of Economics and B.S.L., LL.B., Symbiosis Law School, Pune
Industry body memberships
- Supreme Court of India Bar Association
- International Bar Association
- Inter- Pacific Bar Association
- Bombay Bar Association
- Delhi High Court Bar Association
- Rajasthan High Court Bar Association
- Advocate, Bar Council of Rajasthan
Recognition
- Recognised as a Rise Rated Lawyer for Arbitration by RSGI (2026)
- Ranked individual for Dispute Resolution by Chambers and Partners Global and Asia-Pacific Guide (2026–2024)
- Recognised as a Leading Partner by Legal 500 (2026–2025)
- Recognised as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific (2026 and 2025)
- Recognised as a Distinguished Practitioner for Dispute Resolution by Asialaw Profiles (2025 and 2024)
- Recognised among the Top 10 Influential Dispute Resolution Lawyers in Mumbai, India by Business Today (2024), which noted he is “recognized for his extensive coverage of commercial litigation… capable of litigating matters in various courts, he is an indispensable asset to the industry”
- Featured in India Business Law Journal’s A-List (2023–24)
- Recognised among India’s Top Disputes Lawyers by Asian Legal Business (2022)
- Recognised in BW Legal 40 Under 40 (2020)
- Awarded Disputes Star of the Year – India at the Asialaw and Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Awards (2018)
