Experience

Career

2024 — now

Founder

Novo Legal · Cuttack and New Delhi

An independent litigation and transactional practice in dispute resolution, arbitration and real estate, acting for clients — promoter families and closely held companies, developers, and foreign parties — across various jurisdictions within and outside India. Appearances before the Supreme Court of India, the Orissa High Court, civil courts and the NCLT, and in institutional and ad hoc commercial arbitration, including before the ICC. Drafted and negotiated built-to-suit development agreements, long-term institutional leases, joint-development arrangements, IDCO industrial leases and the sale and purchase of development-grade land. Advised on corporate structuring for land and investment, shareholder arrangements, share transfers, wills and succession, conveyancing and company compliances.

2022 — 2024

Additional Standing Counsel

Office of the Advocate General, Odisha · Cuttack

Appeared for the State before the Orissa High Court — ten to fifteen matters a day across civil, service, mining, land-acquisition and contractual disputes — and led final arguments in several reported judgments, civil and criminal. Assisted the Advocate General in mining, arbitration and tender matters up to the Supreme Court.

2018 — 2022

Counsel

New Delhi and Odisha

Litigation and arbitration with the chambers of Parag Tripathi, Senior Advocate — on energy, infrastructure and regulatory disputes before the Supreme Court and the High Courts — and with Wadhwa Law Chambers, alongside real-estate advisory and some thirty-five active commercial briefs before the Delhi High Court, the NCLT, NCLAT, RERA and the Consumer Forums. Also briefed the Advocate General of Odisha in public-law and mining matters.

2017 — 2018

Judicial Law Clerk

Supreme Court of India, Justice A. K. Sikri · New Delhi

Researched and summarised arguments for landmark constitution-bench and public-interest judgments — including the challenge to Aadhaar, the recognition of passive euthanasia, and the status of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

Education

Columbia Law School

Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2022

James Kent Scholar · Columbia Science and Technology Law Review · legal extern, Knight First Amendment Institute · appellate advocacy at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

NUJS, Kolkata

B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), 2017

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences · a semester at Comillas ICADE, Madrid

Bar admissions

New York

Attorney and Counselor-at-Law, 2024

Bar Council of India

Advocate, 2017