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Anuj Berry is a Partner at Trilegal and part of the firm’s Disputes practice. He holds expertise in managing a diverse practice portfolio while specialising in general commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, company law-related disputes and white-collar crime defence matters. Anuj practices across all major forums with a focus on disputes before the Supreme Court of India. Anuj has also handled ad-hoc international arbitrations for major domestic and multi national clients. Anuj has been at the forefront of presenting multi-national corporations in large and politically sensitive anti-corruption and anti-money laundering investigations having a cross border element. His expertise in such matters extends to advising the client and senior management in all aspects of such cross border investigations starting from the internal fact finding, strategy to engage with the investigation agency, developing a defence strategy as also representation before the courts should the investigations, Anuj also works closely to guide clients in cooperation approaches under the mutual legal assistance treaty regimes as also extradition issues. Anuj also conducts and advises corporations, boards of directors, audit committees on internal investigations regarding a wide range of alleged misconduct, including corruption, financial irregularities, financial statement fraud. Some of the complex internal investigations he has led have had an interface with parallel regulatory investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Indian Securities and Exchange Board of India, which were successfully closed basis the findings of the internal investigation. As part of his work, Anuj also helps navigate intense government and media scrutiny so that clients can maintain their business operations. He also advises on anti-bribery compliance and diligence aspects in case of investments in Indian companies Recognition • Ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific, for White Collar Crime, 2022-2025 • ‘Leading Partner‘ for White Collar Crime by Legal500, 2022-2025 • ‘Distinguished Practitioner‘ for Dispute Resolution by Asialaw, 2024 • ‘Litigation Star‘ for White Collar Crime by Benchmark Litigation, 2024-2025 • ‘Future Star‘ for White Collar Crime by Benchmark Litigation, 2023 • WWL Recommended Lawyer – Global Leader – Business Crime Defence Corporate, 2021-2023 • WWL Future Leader – Investigations – Future Leaders – Partners, 2021-2023 • Among India’s 50 ‘Rising Stars‘ by Asian Legal Business, 2021 • ALB Asia Super Disputes Lawyers, 2021 • ALB India Rising Star, 2021 • The only Indian practitioner recognized among the world’s top 40 young investigations specialists by Global Investigation Review, 2020 • Among BW Legal World 40 under 40 by BW Businessworld, 2020