Rajiv Chawla

Rajiv Chawla is a Partner at C&K Law Offices, with a practice focused on insolvency and restructuring, corporate and commercial disputes, company law, and litigation and advisory matters. His work encompasses complex issues arising under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, the Companies Act, 2013, and other applicable legal frameworks.

He has experience in proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, the Debt Recovery Tribunal, the High Courts and the civil courts. His practice includes advising and assisting insolvency professionals, creditors, corporate debtors, suspended management and other stakeholders in matters arising during corporate insolvency resolution and liquidation proceedings.

His insolvency practice covers initiation of insolvency proceedings, claims and creditor rights, resolution plans, avoidance transactions, personal guarantor insolvency, liquidation, and challenges to orders passed by adjudicating authorities. He has also worked on matters involving the duties of resolution professionals, the powers of the committee of creditors, and the interpretation and application of the statutory provisions governing the insolvency framework.

In the area of company law, Rajiv has worked on mergers and amalgamations, shareholder disputes, oppression and mismanagement, corporate governance, and other proceedings under the Companies Act, 2013. His litigation experience also encompasses civil and commercial disputes, contractual claims, recovery proceedings, property-related disputes, and criminal proceedings, including matters concerning the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 and the quashing of FIRs.

In addition to contentious work, Rajiv advises on and undertakes the drafting and review of commercial and corporate agreements, including business transfer agreements, founders' agreements, partnership agreements, memoranda of understanding, settlement agreements and other transaction-related documents.