Aishwarya Ananthkumar
Partner
Qualifications
- LL.M- Tata Institute of Social Science
- BBA LL.B.- Symbiosis International University
Bar Enrolment
- Bar Council of Karnataka
Memberships
- Karnataka State Bar Association
Overview
Aishwarya Ananthkumar has over a decade of experience in leading complex and high-stake litigation matters before the Karnataka High Court and various other courts and tribunals (Appellate and original) in the state of Karnataka including the NCLT, district courts and consumer fora, etc.
Over the past few years, she has been appointed as a standing counsel before the Karnataka High Court for various state government departments and bodies notably for Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board, Karnataka Slum Development Board, Bangalore Development Authority and Bangalore Wastewater and Sewerage Board.
She is also a trustee at the Bangalore International Arbitration Center (BIAC), where she oversees international collaborations.
Aishwarya began her career at Tier-1 law firms working with various prestigious firms and has trained under notable legal professionals such as Justice Pratibha Singh, Senior Advocate Sajjan Poovayya and Mr. Murali Ananthasivan, a doyen of company law.
In 2018, she co-founded Nyaya Chetana, an NGO promoting legal awareness on women’s rights and child sexual abuse. Nyaya Chetana creates educational content and conducts awareness sessions in various organizations.
She is also a jury member of the Namma Bengaluru Awards which is a unique initiative to recognize unsung heroes of Bengaluru. In the year 2021, Aishwarya was selected by the Government of Karnataka to be part of the 13-member expert committee to frame the Karnataka Youth Policy and was the only woman member to be part of this committee.
Experience Statement
- Court ordained restructuring of large private entities including a merger of a foreign subsidiary into its Indian parent company, demerger of a class of shareholders and creditors etc.
- High stake and complex shareholder/investor disputes before the NCLT Bangalore bench, Mumbai bench and NCLAT.
- Domestic institutional as well as ad-hoc arbitrations before three-arbitrator panels of senior retired High Court judges.
- Writ petitions challenging various orders of the government being presently conducted before the High Court of Karnataka.
- Property litigations of a major oil company across the State of Karnataka.
- Property litigations of a major pharmaceutical company in Bangalore.
