Namita is the Founder and Managing Partner of Chadha & Co. She is a lawyer with 31 years of experience in corporate and commercial laws. Her areas of expertise include Multijurisdictional Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulatory, Competition Law, White-Collar Crime and Commercial Fraud, Labour & Employment, Infrastructure and Anti-Bribery. She advises leading multinationals doing business in India on diverse matters. She brings to the table expertise flowing from a fusion of skill-sets drawn from her experience as a General Counsel and rich corporate experience of the law firm for providing efficient legal solutions to the businesses which her Firm advises.
Namita has been awarded as 'Woman lawyer of the year 2014' by LegalEra, India and 'Leading Lawyer' by Asialaw, continuously for 5 years.
Namita began her professional career in 1993 in the Supreme Court of India, where she worked on diverse areas of civil, commercial and contractual laws with an emphasis on issues of constitutional and environmental laws and public interest litigation. She served as a counsel to Broken Hill Propriety a leading Australian multinational, where she advised its joint venture with Kinhill (now known as Kellogg Brown Roots) on contract negotiations with Paradip Port Trust for an ADB funded Tamil Nadu highways project of 480 kms and also on matters in the real estate arena. Thereafter, she joined a corporate and commercial law firm, where she gained extensive experience in advising Fortune 500 Japanese and American clients on insurance laws, anti-trust laws, privatization and disinvestment, licensing and franchising and joint ventures and technical collaborations.
Namita has served, on a non-exclusive basis, as the general counsel, compliance officer and ombudsperson of an Indian subsidiary of a leading US multinational. Being a member of the India management team, she worked extensively with the Asia-Pacific and US legal teams. During her stint, she advised on matters involving the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and UN Convention Against Corruption. She has trained board members, senior management and employees on various compliance issues and policies, thus helping the company achieve high performance and integrity.
By marshaling the diverse resources of both counsel and managers worldwide, she was able to break down traditional legal boundaries and bring together significant, hands-on experience in the areas of compliance issues, government investigations and raids, legislations and raids, legislative and political relations and customizing global integrity policies including anti-money laundering.
Namita has authored several articles, spoken at various fora, and has been featured in several publications across the globe.
