Gathi Prakash Karrah

Gathi has built a strong market reputation for her expertise in managing high-volume, complex commercial disputes involving private equity, promoter-shareholder rights, public infrastructure and construction projects, high value media rights contracts, and sanctions compliance matters.

With over 13 years of experience in dispute resolution, Gathi focuses on commercial arbitration (international and domestic), corporate-commercial, and cross-border litigation. Gathi regularly appears before courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities in India.

Relevant Experience

• Represented Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) in a Singapore-seated SIAC arbitration involving a USD 90 million termination fee claim and successfully contesting the jurisdiction of the foreign Emergency Arbitrator who affirmed the Indian National Company Law Tribunal’s authority over implementation of a merger scheme.
• Represented Dr. Bina Modi in obtaining an anti-arbitration injunction from the Delhi High Court, restraining a Singapore-seated ICC arbitration in a USD 1 billion family trust dispute.
• Advising, representing Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) on challenges to tender conditions or evaluation, including successfully challenging tender conditions in two major infrastructure projects floated by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), resulting in extended bid deadlines.
• Advising a leading integrated business conglomerate in cross-border litigation involving allegations of fraud.
• Representing L&T in high-value domestic arbitrations against Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, India’s flagship energy major, under offshore platform contracts, resulting in two favourable arbitral awards, and also defending one of the awards before court.
• Representing a leading Indian shipbuilding company in domestic arbitration involving construction of offshore vessels for a public sector enterprise.
• Representing a consortium comprising foreign and Indian companies in its disputes with an Indian government entity involving the designing, building, and construction of a high-capacity railway line for freight trains in India.
• Advising India-based multinational business conglomerates on sanctions compliance matters.
• Representing National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited in proceedings for appropriation of receivables of the borrower contractor (Mumbai Metro One Private Limited) under an arbitral award against MMRDA.
• Represented the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in an ad hoc domestic arbitration establishing fraud in execution of a media rights license agreement with World Sport Group (India) Private Limited in an Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights license dispute, leading to dismissal of an INR 900 crore claim against BCCI, and acting in related challenges before the Bombay High Court.
• Representing the BCCI in a challenge to a Bombay High Court judgment that set aside an arbitral award directing BCCI to pay Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited approximately INR 4,814 Crores for wrongful termination of its IPL franchise agreement.
• Represented Life Insurance Corporation of India in writ proceedings before the Supreme Court and Bombay High Court concerning challenges to its IPO, and before the Bombay High Court concerning a challenge to a request for proposal for appointment of a Registrar and Share Transfer Agent.
• Representing Fortis Hospitals Limited and its former directors/officers before the Bombay High Court, securing a stay of criminal proceedings under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
• Represented YES Bank Limited in a long-running suit filed by the Madhu Kapur Promoter Group before the Bombay High Court involving shareholder rights and resolutions, culminating in an amicable settlement after eight years of litigation.
• Representing Edelweiss Financial Services Limited and group NBFCs before the Bombay High Court in proceedings against Moody’s Corporation for dissemination of false information.

Awards & Recognition

• Co-Chair, Young Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration, Steering Committee, 2023-25 & 2025-27
• Future Star, Benchmark Litigation 2025

Memberships

• Advocate, Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa
• Permanent Member, Bombay Bar Association