Biography
Nitesh Jain is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice at Trilegal. His practice focuses on court litigation, international and domestic commercial arbitrations, 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 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. Nitesh is a ranked individual in Disputes Resolution practice by Chambers and Partners Global Guide Asia Pacific, 2024, featured in India Business Law Journal’s A-list 2023-24, Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, 2024, Distinguished Practitioner for Dispute Resolution by Asialaw Profiles, 2024, India Top Disputes Lawyers 2022 by Asian Legal Business, Leading Individual by Legal 500, Business World Legal 40 Under 40 2020, Disputes Star of the Year – India by Asialaw and benchmark litigation Asia- Pacific Dispute Resolution Awards 2018.