Piyush Gupta, former Senior Legal Counsel at Indigo Airlines has recently joined Kochhar & Co. as a Partner to set up the firm’s Competition and Aviation law practice. Piyush will be based at the firm’s based Gurgaon office..Piyush Gupta, former Senior Legal Counsel at Indigo Airlines has recently joined Kochhar & Co. as a Partner to set up the firm’s Competition and Aviation law practice. Piyush will be based at the firm’s Gurgaon office..Piyush has around 8 years of experience working both at law firms and as in-house counsel in a number of legal and management roles. His areas of expertise include competition law compliance and audit, aircraft leases, BFE purchase agreements, negotiations with airport operators along with other regulatory agencies..Piyush has previously worked with Singapore Airlines (based out of Singapore) where he led the company’s competition law compliance regime, and worked with the corporate finance teams on a variety of matters. Prior to that, he was working at Singapore-based law firm Rajah & Tann. He worked at Rajah & Tann for more than 3 years..Piyush is a graduate of University of Delhi and did his LLM from the George Washington University Law School specializing in International Trade and Anti Trust. Prior to going for his LLM, he was working at Kundra & Bansal in Delhi..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Piyush said, “I am looking forward to working with a leading law firm in India and bringing forth my experience in setting up the Competition law practice at Kochhar.”.Talking about his decision to work as in-house counsel and then moving back to law firm, Piyush said, “The ideology was always to be in practice because that is where you get more dynamic and challenging work. The digression to go in-house was only to experience it from the side of the customers or clients as to what their requirements are so that once you come back to practice then you are aware of the requirements of the inhouse counsel and then you can cater your advice and opinion to suit the requirements of the in-house counsels.”.Rohit Kochhar, Chairman and Managing Partner of Kochhar & Co. in a statement said, “We are delighted to welcome Piyush Gupta into the Kochhar family. He brings diverse and extensive experience both from a Corporate and Competition Law perspective. Kochhar & Co. has consistently endeavored to build an impressive bench strength of partners. With the induction of Piyush we head towards building a robust Aviation and Competition Law Practice.”.Recently, Bidan Chandran has joined the Mumbai office of Kochhar & Co. to further strengthen its Banking and Project Finance practice.
Piyush Gupta, former Senior Legal Counsel at Indigo Airlines has recently joined Kochhar & Co. as a Partner to set up the firm’s Competition and Aviation law practice. Piyush will be based at the firm’s based Gurgaon office..Piyush Gupta, former Senior Legal Counsel at Indigo Airlines has recently joined Kochhar & Co. as a Partner to set up the firm’s Competition and Aviation law practice. Piyush will be based at the firm’s Gurgaon office..Piyush has around 8 years of experience working both at law firms and as in-house counsel in a number of legal and management roles. His areas of expertise include competition law compliance and audit, aircraft leases, BFE purchase agreements, negotiations with airport operators along with other regulatory agencies..Piyush has previously worked with Singapore Airlines (based out of Singapore) where he led the company’s competition law compliance regime, and worked with the corporate finance teams on a variety of matters. Prior to that, he was working at Singapore-based law firm Rajah & Tann. He worked at Rajah & Tann for more than 3 years..Piyush is a graduate of University of Delhi and did his LLM from the George Washington University Law School specializing in International Trade and Anti Trust. Prior to going for his LLM, he was working at Kundra & Bansal in Delhi..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Piyush said, “I am looking forward to working with a leading law firm in India and bringing forth my experience in setting up the Competition law practice at Kochhar.”.Talking about his decision to work as in-house counsel and then moving back to law firm, Piyush said, “The ideology was always to be in practice because that is where you get more dynamic and challenging work. The digression to go in-house was only to experience it from the side of the customers or clients as to what their requirements are so that once you come back to practice then you are aware of the requirements of the inhouse counsel and then you can cater your advice and opinion to suit the requirements of the in-house counsels.”.Rohit Kochhar, Chairman and Managing Partner of Kochhar & Co. in a statement said, “We are delighted to welcome Piyush Gupta into the Kochhar family. He brings diverse and extensive experience both from a Corporate and Competition Law perspective. Kochhar & Co. has consistently endeavored to build an impressive bench strength of partners. With the induction of Piyush we head towards building a robust Aviation and Competition Law Practice.”.Recently, Bidan Chandran has joined the Mumbai office of Kochhar & Co. to further strengthen its Banking and Project Finance practice.