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Abhishek advises clients on a wide range of laws, such as energy and power sector laws, insolvency laws, real estate laws, companies’ law, foreign exchange laws, securities regulations, insurance laws and telecom laws. A keen observer of politics and regulatory environments, he routinely interacts with governmental and regulatory authorities in India, such as Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Reserve Bank of India, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, Department of Telecommunication and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on several matters. He is also a registered insolvency resolution professional.

Abhishek has been involved in advising clients in several cross border transactions, including in setting up of power projects, in Nepal, Senegal, Bhutan, Maldives and Myanmar.

Abhishek enmeshes his passion for the practice of law with his penchant for mentoring and engaging with young minds. To that end, his career has been punctuated with various teaching stints, including at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Amity Law School at New Delhi and Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat. He regularly contributes to various blogs, online magazines and has written several articles in leading national dailies and journals.

He has won several awards and accolades throughout his career. He was recently recognized as a Leading Partner for Corporate, Commercial & M&A (NCR) and a Recommended Lawyer for Project & Energy by the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2026-2025). Some of his other notable awards include: Recognized for Corporate and M&A: NCR (2024 & 2023) by The Legal 500, Consecutively Ranked in A-List (India’s Top Lawyer) (2020-2026), Recognized for Corporate and M&A, Infrastructure and Restructuring & Insolvency (2025 & 2024) by Asialaw, Ranked “Highly Regarded” for M&A and Project Development (2025 & 2024) by IFLR1000, Recognized as “Litigation Star” for Insolvency (2025, 2024, 2021, 2020 & 2019) and Dispute Resolution (2020) by Benchmark Litigation, Recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate & M&A (2024).

Mani heads the Firm’s litigation practice. She also heads the Firm’s insolvency litigation practice. Prior to helming the Firm’s dispute resolution practice, Mani was a corporate transactional lawyer. Her background as a transactions’ lawyer brings to the table a unique perspective on understanding of commercial contracts and commercial risk-allocations.

She is advising several clients in their corporate/ commercial disputes before various courts, tribunals and in arbitrations. Mani has been extensively involved in advising clients in financial distress in managing their litigation, and in advising on the Corporate Debt Restructuring and Strategic Debt Restructuring process of the Reserve Bank of India. Mani also has an expertise in handling commercial arbitrations in construction contracts, and power and infrastructure projects.

Mani has been involved in advising the Government of India in developing legal documentation for public-private partnership projects in the education space. She has advised the Government of Delhi on review of its school education laws and was invited by the Parliament’s Standing Committees for expert depositions on bills like Registration (Amendment) Bill, National Academic Depository Bill, 2011, the Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011, and the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2011.

Mani has been a key pillar of setting the Firm’s culture. She believes that all lawyers have an obligation to give back to the community in whatever way they can. To this end, Mani has co-founded a platform – Samvedna – for discussing issues around wellness in law. She is also a prolific writer, having contributed articles on legal issues in newspapers, legal journals and legal blogs.

Mani is an alumnus of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and had worked with Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, New Delhi before joining Sarthak.

She was recently recognized as Highly Recommended: Client Choice and Recommended for Commercial Litigation by Lexology Index Rankings, Recommended Lawyer for Dispute Resolution (NCR) by the Legal500 Asia-Pacific (2026 & 2025) Rankings. Some of her additional awards and accolades such as: Recommended Lawyer for Projects & Energy: India (2026, 2024) Dispute Resolution (2026) and Corporate and M&A: NCR (2023) by The Legal 500. Ranked for Dispute Resolution, Restructuring & Insolvency, Infrastructure & Energy (2020 – 2025) and Private Equity (2023) by Asialaw, Ranked “Notable Practitioner” for Restructuring & Insolvency (2025 & 2024) by IFLR1000, Recognized as “Litigation Star” for Commercial & Transactions (2025, 2024, 2021, 2020 & 2019) by Benchmark Litigation , Recognized as Top Disputes Lawyers (2022) by Asian Legal Business, Recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Arbitration & Litigation Legal Era Rankings (2024 & 2025)

Other notable awards and accolades include: Notable Practitioner for Dispute Resolution by Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2022; Top 100 women in Litigation by Benchmark Litigation Asia- Pacific’s Top 100 Women in Litigation 2021 and 2020.

She was also recognized as Top 100 Women in Litigation in Asia-Pacific (2020) by Benchmark Litigation.

Siddarth has advised various levels of government departments and public officials across the country, and has extensive expertise in resolving regulatory and legal policy challenges. He has assisted in drafting Private Member Bills for MPs, and also provides litigation and dispute resolution services. He has been involved in advising clients on investments in India and cross border transactions. He has also been a legal advisor to the Climate Policy Initiative and is empanelled with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, and Convergence Energy Services Ltd.

During his tenure at International Finance Corporation (IFC) at the World Bank Group (WBG), Siddarth provided legal advisory services to GoI on state level Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) rankings, and global EoDB rankings. He co-authored the section on ‘Enforcing Contracts’ in “Doing Business in India: Reform Memorandum”, submitted to GoI to improve the enforcement of contracts in India. He also represented WBG at consultations with the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee (BLRC), constituted by GoI to draft the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016.

Siddarth has provided transactional advice on Concession Agreements including, on the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas, a PPP scheme under the Ministry of Rural Development. While at WBG, he also drafted the Model Concession Agreement for NITI Aayog to facilitate PPPs in the health care sector across districts in rural India.

He is an alumnus of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and holds an LL.M. from the George Washington University Law School, as a Thomas Buergenthal Scholar.

Tarun Bhattacharya is a senior member of the Corporate and Energy practice at Sarthak Advocates & Solicitors. With nearly 3 decades of legal experience across India, South Asia, and other global jurisdictions, Tarun has advised on complex corporate and energy transactions collectively exceeding $ 2 billion. His expertise spans the entire spectrum of the energy value chain, including renewable energy, battery storage, large-scale utility projects, and project finance, with a special focus on regulatory frameworks and cross-border structuring.

Before joining the Firm, Tarun served as a General Counsel and Compliance Officer at AES India Private Limited, the Indian arm of the U.S.-based AES Corporation. In this role, he led landmark energy projects, including structuring South Asia’s first 10 MW grid-scale Battery Energy Storage System in partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation, and implementing a major solar deployment in India using Australia’s patented “Maverick” technology. Previously, he worked at a senior level with General Motors and Delhi International Airport Pvt. Ltd

Tarun’s experience also includes advising key stakeholders like sponsors, lenders, and government authorities on energy-sector investments in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the broader Eurasian region. He began his career in litigation, practicing for over a decade before the Allahabad High Court and various tribunals, where he represented leading public-sector undertakings including NTPC, SAIL, SBI, Power Grid Corporation, and the Cotton Corporation of India.

Tarun holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law, an MBA from the University of Strathclyde, UK and LLB from Awadesh Pratap Singh University. He is registered with the Bar Council of India.

Anubhav is a part of the corporate transactions of the Firm. Anubhav advises clients on a wide range of laws, such as energy and power sector related laws, real estate laws, companies’ law, foreign exchange laws, securities regulations, and education laws. Anubhav is involved in several M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions. Anubhav also specializes in EPC contracts and project finance.

Some of Anubhav’s notable clients include Africa Energy S.A. (a Senegal based power producer), Sterlite Group, Hindustan Power Group, Moser Baer Group, Coastal Projects Limited, Jal Power Corporation Limited, Manav Rachna Group of Institutions and Indus World Schools. Anubhav is involved in advising clients in several cross border transactions, including in setting up of power projects, in Nepal, Senegal, Bhutan, and Maldives.

Anubhav is a graduate of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University at Lucknow.

He was recently recognized as a Recommended Lawyer for Projects & Energy (2026-2025) and Commercial, Corporate and M&A 2026 by the Legal500 Asia-Pacific Rankings, Notable Practitioner for M&A by IFLR1000 Rankings 2025 and also as a Notable Practitioner for Energy by Asialaw Rankings 2025. His other awards and accolades include: Ranked for Corporate and M&A: NCR (2024 and 2023) by The Legal 500, Recognized as “Rising Star 40 under 40” by the Legal Era and Rising Star by Asian Legal Business (2023).