Susmit Pushkar

Susmit Pushkar

Partner, Dispute Resolution

+91 98993 54547
Susmit Pushkar is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice group and is based out of the New Delhi office. Susmit has diverse and rich experience in advising and representing Clients across industries. He regularly appears before trial courts, Tribunals, High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India. He brings multi-dimensional experience in his areas of practice.
Susmit regularly advises multinational and domestic corporate houses in relation to investigations by enforcement agencies (e.g. Central Bureau of Investigation, Serious Fraud Investigation Office, Enforcement Directorate) alleging bribery, money laundering, corporate fraud, and traditional economic offences and other enforcement actions, including attachment of properties, issuance of look-out circulars, mutual legal assistance treaty actions; representing clients through trial in criminal courts and appellate proceedings. He has advised clients in bribery proceedings arising out of public procurements and grants in aviation, coal, defense, information technology, and other sectors. He has advised clients on corporate fraud proceedings, including in respect of bank loans, embezzlement, securities. He advises clients on the follow-on money laundering proceedings, including for attachment of the proceeds of crime. He assists clients in their internal corporate investigations relating to fraud, harassment, anti-trust, etc., and the attendant corporate governance issues.

An LL.M. graduate of the Harvard Law School, Susmit is a registered Advocate-on-Record of the Supreme Court of India.  In  its  2021 rankings, Chambers (Asia Pacific) notes this about him: “He is praised by an interviewee for being a great executor. He advises on a number of cases, with specialist experience in fraud and anti-bribery matters”. Chambers & Partners 2018 notes Susmit as being “increasingly recognised in the market for ‘some stellar work’ in the dispute resolution and white-collar crime spaces”. Susmit has been recommended byLegal 500 in the White Collar Practice. He has been noted as a competition lawyer by GCR 100 2018. He is currently a Vice-Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Committee on Anti-Corruption and the Rule of Law. He regularly speaks in seminars on legal issues impacting the industry.