Amazon versus Future Retail and Reliance deal: 78 lawyers who appeared in the Supreme Court

In a big win for Amazon, the Supreme Court today upheld the appeal of the e-commerce giant against a Delhi High Court order staying the attachment of properties of the Future Group companies and Kishore Biyani in relation to the Future-Reliance deal..Pertinently, the Bench of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and BR Gavai also held that the order of an emergency arbitrator of Singapore restraining Future Retail from proceeding with its merger deal with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail is enforceable in India, under Section 17(2) of the Arbitration Act..Here is a look at the lawyers who appeared in the matter..Amazon was represented by a battery of Senior Advocates before the Supreme Court, with Gopal Subramanium, Ranjit Kumar, Aspi Chinoy Gourab Banerji, Amit Sibal and Nakul Dewan all appearing..The following lawyers assisted the Senior Counsel:Pawan Bhushan, Hima Lawrence, Ujwala Uppaluri (Subramanium)Mohit Pandey, Raka Chatterjee, T Sundaram (Banerji)Vinay Tripathi, Aishvary Vikram, Kaustubh Prakash (Sibal)Anushka Shah, Neelu Mohan (Dewan).P&A Law Offices briefed the seniors through a team led by Partners Anand Pathak, Amit K Mishra, Shashank Gautam, Sreemoyee Deb, Vijay Purohit and Shashank Manish (AOR). Mohit Singh was the Advocate-on-Record.Other lawyers from the firm who assisted in the matter were Harshad Pathak, Promit Chatterjee, Shivam Pandey, Smriti Shah, Samridhi Hota, Kanika Singhal, Saloni Agarwal, Didon Misri, Nidhi Sahay, Nikita Bangera, Pratik Jhaveri, Faizan Mithaiwala..AZB & Partners also briefed the senior lawyers through a team led by Partners Vijayendra Pratap Singh, Rachit Bahl and Roopali Singh.Abhijnan Jha, Priyank Ladoia, Tanmay Sharma, Vanya Chhabra, Arnab Ray, Vedant Kapur, Shaurya Mittal, Abhisar Vidyarthi and Ninaee Deshmukh assisted the Partners..Senior Advocates Harish Salve, KV Viswanathan, Vineet Naik and Ritin Rai led the arguments for Future Retail..Yugandhara Pawar Jha was the Advocate-on-Record. Advocates Raghav Shankar, Aditya Mehta, Tushar Hathiramani, Harshvardhan Jha, Arshiya Sharda, Ritika Rai, Apoorva Singhal, Pankaj Patel assisted in the matter..The seniors were briefed by a team by Naik Naik & Co led by Partners Ameet Naik, Abhishek Kale and Madhu Gadodia..Senior Advocate Vikram Nankani led the team representing Future Coupons..He was briefed by a team from Agarwal Law Associates headed by Partners EC Agrawala (Advocate-on-Record), Mahesh Agarwal and Rishi Agarwala. Pranjit Bhattacharya, Karan Luthra and Ankit Banati were the other lawyers from the firm who appeared..Advocate-on-Record Vikas Mehta and Advocates Naval Agarwal, Rohan Shah, Rohan Kelkar, Devanshi Singh, Apoorv Khator and Bhaskar Nayak also assisted.