Our Team
MANAGING PARTNER
Jaya Bharuka is a qualified Chartered Accountant (2003) and graduated as a lawyer in 2008. She has been part of the GDG team since then. She is registered Insolvency Professional (under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016). With her multi-disciplinary background and knowledge, she has an edge over complex commercial disputes involving financial intricacies. She heads the arbitration team of the firm. She is enrolled at the Bar Council of Delhi, Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and member of the ICSI Institute of Insolvency Professionals. On the arbitration front, she is an Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
PARTNER
Ravi Bharuka is a 2013 law graduate from ILS Law College, Pune. He is working with GDG since then and has successfully worked on various commercial disputes including arbitration involving heavy financial stakes and complex questions of facts and law before the Arbitral Tribunal (both Institutional and ad hoc), High Court and Supreme Court. He has been declared as an Advocate-on-Record by the Supreme Court of India in May 2020. He is also an Advocate-on-Record at the Patna High Court since August 2017. Ravi has completed membership course of Chartered Institute of Arbitrator in March 2017. He has also done Diploma in International Business Laws and Corporate Laws in India from Symbiosis Law School, Pune.
SENIOR ASSOCIATES
Anu Tyagi after completing MBA, LLM, has been practicing law since 2010. She has experience in dispute resolution before Supreme Court and Delhi High Court, Delhi district courts and various tribunals and forums. She specializes in matrimonial and consumer cases. She also has an edge in environmental issues having represented State of Jharkhand before the National Green Tribunal, New Delhi.
Sarvshree is an alumnus of Amity Law School, Noida and is a post-graduation merit awardee in Business Law. She has an experience of about four years handling complex legal issues before different legal forums and has effectively conducted cases before the Supreme Court of India and various other High Courts of the country. She is a true professional and principled in her approach and believes that, “Your actions are defined by intention; every man shall deserve only that which he intended.”
Justine George has completed law from the School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore, in 2017 and is enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi. He has efficiently handled a plethora of legal issues in litigation and dispute resolution, both in courts and arbitration.
ASSOCIATES
Srishti Agarwal is a law graduate from O.P. Jindal Global University. She is a graduate of 2019. She has a keen interest in commercial litigation and dispute resolution practice.
Ankit Agarwal completed law from Jaipur National University, Jaipur in 2016. He has worked as in-house counsel in Blackberry and has immense experience of handling various contract negotiations and drafting. He has also worked on criminal and land acquisition disputes before the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court.
Taniya Bansal recently graduated from Amity Law School, Noida. She is enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi. Having acquired exposure to both corporate and dispute resolution during her internship days in different organizations, she has chosen to follow her passion to work as a litigator.
Apurva Singhvi graduated from the National Law University, Jodhpur and is enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi. He had the occasion of learning in the offices of Mr. Soli Sorabjee, Sr Adv, former Attorney General for India and Mr. Harish Salve, Sr Adv, QC, former Solicitor General of India.
Archisha Bansal is working with us as an Associate and has been contributing value adding opinion and research across various projects. In the past, she has been associated with JP Morgan Chase & Company as a legal counsel to review and evaluate legal agreements dealing with international financial transactions.
OF COUNSELS
G.D. Goel, Senior Advocate having extensive experience in Delhi High Court and presently empaneled as an Arbitrator with the Delhi International Arbitration Centre.
Sanjiv Goel is practicing since 1989 and is the founding partner of GDG. He was appointed as the Assistant Public Prosecutor in 1995. After his stint as the APP, Mr. Goel worked in New York and Manchester. He has extensive experience in varied areas of legal practice with expertise in corporate litigation and arbitration.
Devashish Bharuka has completed his LL.M. from Harvard University (USA) in International Commercial Arbitration. He joined legal practice in 2001 and was declared an Advocate on Record by the Supreme Court of India in 2006. He was a partner of the firm till end of 2019 and has now shifted to counsel practice. He specializes in corporate litigation and arbitration and has experience in Supreme Court and different High Courts across the country. He is former President of the Harvard Club of India.
Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi is an Advocate-on-Record in the Supreme Court of India. He has been admitted as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a 105 years old worldwide organization based in London, UK. He is a qualified Tutor for training the Arbitrators, designated by CIArb, U.K and has been training arbitrators and arbitration practitioners. He has also appeared before several High Courts of India particularly, Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Allahabad, Patna and Ranchi in relation to contractual, toll related cases, land acquisition cases and other matters.
Manita Verma, is practicing as an advocate since 1999 (more than 2 decades) and has vast experience of dealing with numerous types of Civil, Criminal, Service, Constitutional, Labour, Commercial, Bank and Arbitration Cases, in the Supreme Court of India, High Court of Delhi and other Fora
ASSOCIATE FIRMS
LAW FIRMS
Rajni Tekriwal Law Professional Corporation
Toronto office: 8760, Jane Street, Suite 205, Vaughan, Ontario L4K2M9
Hui Ye Law Firm (formerly called M&A Law Firm)
Wei, Qingsong, Managing Partner
Shanghai Office: 13/F, Huamin Empire Plaza 726 West Yanan Road, Changning, Shanghai,200050
Nanjing Office: Suite 1901, 4th Building Jiaye International Town, 158 Lushan Road, Jianye, Nanjing, 210019
Airan Law, PA (licensed to practice law only in State of Florida, USA)
Dar Airan, Esq.
7300 North Kendall Drive, Ste. 740, Miami, FL, 33156 US
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT FIRM
VD & Co., Chartered Accountants
Vaibhaw Kedia, CA
Unit No. 234, 2nd Floor, JMD Megapolis, Sector – 48, Sohna Road, Gurgaon