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Biography

Chaitanya Arora has over 24 years’ experience of advising on all aspects of business valuations, damages quantification, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance related matters. He has acted as an advisor to private and public companies, private equity funds, and sovereign wealth funds. His work experience covers assignments across North and South Asia, India, North America, the Middle East, and Africa. Chaitanya has been appointed as a damages or valuation expert in over 85 matters and has testified on several occasions. Chaitanya has acted as a party or Tribunal / Court appointed independent expert on matters that involve a variety of expert issues across several industries. He has opined on issues of damages, loss of profits, valuation, accounting treatment of transactions and application of accounting standards. The nature of disputes that he has been involved in arise from commercial contracts like production sharing contracts, supply contracts, joint venture disputes, shareholder agreements, merger and acquisition related matters and expropriations. His industry experience includes matters in infrastructure like port terminals, railway construction, petrochemical industry, industrial gases, hospitality and leisure, telecommunication, locomotive transformers, onshore drilling, online travel agencies, specialty chemicals, thermal and renewable energy power plants, retail franchises, residential real estate construction and IT infrastructure. He has also been a jointly appointed expert determinant for fair valuation of a multinational family business. Chaitanya is recognized consistently by Who’s Who Legal annually in several key listings since 2017. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Singapore and serves as the Honorary Treasurer.