Vertari Legal, New Delhi
Litigation before the Supreme Court, the High Courts and the tribunals
Vertari Legal conducts disputes before the Supreme Court of India, the High Courts and the tribunals. The chamber acts for individuals, companies, financial institutions and public bodies in constitutional, commercial, criminal, tax and arbitration matters.
Where we appear
- Supreme Court of India
- High Court of Delhi
- High Courts of Allahabad, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Punjab & Haryana
- Adjudicating Authority and Appellate Tribunal under the PMLA
- National Green Tribunal
- NCLT, DRT, CESTAT and the Central Administrative Tribunal
Expertise
Eight areas of practice, from constitutional and commercial disputes to indirect tax, environmental regulation and economic offences.
Explore4partnersPeople
The partners who conduct the chamber's matters, and the work each of them leads.
Explore16notesInsights
Case notes and commentary on the judgments that move the law the chamber practises.
Explore6forumsThe Firm
How the chamber is organised, how it prepares a brief, and the forums it appears before.
ExploreThe work divides into writ and appellate proceedings, that is, petitions under Articles 32 and 226, special leave petitions and appeals, and the original side: civil and commercial suits, arbitrations, and proceedings before the tax, money-laundering, environmental and insolvency tribunals. A large share of it concerns the State, whether as regulator, prosecutor, tax authority or contracting party.
Each matter is prepared from the record and the reported law. The chamber keeps its own bank of propositions drawn from the judgments it relies on, indexed by statute and provision, so that a point argued in one court is available, with its authority, in the next.
What we do
Areas of Practice
Each area sets out what the chamber does, who leads it, and what we have written on it.
- Banking & Finance
Recovery, enforcement and insolvency proceedings, for lenders and for borrowers, before the Debts Recovery Tribunals, the NCLT and the High Courts.
Shreyuss Shankar Joshi - Constitutional & Civil Rights Law
Writ petitions under Articles 32 and 226, challenges to State action, and the constitutional questions that reach the larger benches of the Supreme Court.
Madhav Bhatia - Dispute Resolution
Civil and commercial suits, arbitration and its court proceedings, and the appeals that follow, before the commercial courts, the High Courts and the Supreme Court.
Madhav Bhatia
Shreyuss Shankar Joshi
Vivek Sura - Environment & Mining
Environmental clearances, mining leases and the regulation of minor minerals, before the National Green Tribunal, the High Courts and the Supreme Court.
Madhav Bhatia
Vivek Sura - Intellectual Property
Trademark, copyright and passing-off litigation, and the protection of confidential information, before the Delhi High Court and the commercial courts.
Shreyuss Shankar Joshi - Service Law
Employment in the public service: recruitment, seniority, discipline, pension and termination, before the Central Administrative Tribunal, the Armed Forces Tribunal and the High Courts.
Shreshth Arya - Tax
Indirect tax litigation under the GST, Customs and Excise laws, and direct tax disputes, before the High Courts, the tribunals and the Supreme Court.
Madhav Bhatia
Shreshth Arya
Vivek Sura - White Collar Crime
Economic offences and money-laundering proceedings, from the first summons or search through attachment, bail, trial and appeal.
Madhav Bhatia
Shreshth Arya
Shreyuss Shankar Joshi
Guides
Questions people ask
Plain answers to the first questions in a dispute.
You have received a legal notice. What now?
A notice is a demand, not a court order. What it obliges you to do depends on the statute behind it, and silence is read as a position.
Read the guideA show cause notice: what it is, and what it is not
The notice that opens a tax, customs, money-laundering or disciplinary proceeding. It is an allegation and an invitation to answer, not a finding, and the statute behind it fixes what it must contain.
Read the guideReading a show cause notice: the analysis at the notice stage
The reply is only as good as the reading that precedes it. Six questions to answer about the notice before a word of the reply is written.
Read the guideInsights
Recent writing
Case notes on judgments as they come down, written by the people who argue these points.
Latest note
The Genesis of the District Survey Report
Environmental regulation of mining minor mineral in India did not emerge as a coherent framework, but reactively to regulatory gaps that became increasingly visible over time.
Read the noteThe series
The Vertari Legal Review
This is the first edition of the Vertari Legal Review, our fortnightly note on the Supreme Court of India: the decisions that shape commercial law, read closely, with a view taken rather than a summary offered.
Edition 01 · June 2026
Contact
Speak to the chamber
Tell us briefly what the matter concerns and the forum it is in. A partner reads every enquiry and replies to say whether the chamber can act.
- Office
- A-446 (LGF), Defence Colony, New Delhi - 110024
- Telephone
- +91 99105 72585