Our Team

We are a great team !

Our Expert Senior Team.

Our more than a Decade long extraordinary experience of Partners at the office of Mumbai, Nagpur and Wardha in the field of civil litigation, Criminal law, Banking law, Finance and Infrastructure projects litigation expertise in these areas is complemented by our extraordinary Academic of Founder and Managing Partner. Her in-depth Research merits and entrenched Industry Sector knowledge,giving us the edge to advise our clients in the true context of their respective industry.

We have an expert team of Senior Advocates and Solicitors who operates all its respective branches. Our team consists of senior most experienced lawyers in the field of banking and finance, wide range of High- stakes Litigation, White collar crimes cases.

Dr. Kshitija Wadatkar Wankhede

Dr. Kshitija Wadatkar Wankhede is a well known name in the legal fraternity. She currently represents Government of India as its standing counsel at Bombay High Court represented various cases of Anti- Corruption, CBI and ED Department.

Our results speak our expertise in these areas is complemented by extraordinary Academic’s of Kshitija and with in-depth Research merits and entrenched Industry Sector knowledge, giving us the edge to advise our clients in true context of their respective industry.

She is a Doctoral Candidate of Constitutional Law.She is the most preferred youngest lady lawyer in Mumbai representing leading Corporate Houses,Real estate industry,Ports and Smart city projects of the country.

Poonam Gupta

More than a decade of experience, Poonam handles property transactions for various Real Estate Developers and Multinational Corporate Clients in Mumbai. Right from a preliminary title search up to registration of property documentation for buyers/ sellers including drafting and vetting of Joint Ventures, Joint Developments, Lease & Leave and License Agreements, Agreement to Sale & Sale Deeds, Poonam has expertise in real estate law and is well-versed with the local laws and regulations including RERA compliance. Poonam has also regularly assisted in drafting and vetting of various contracts such as Franchise Agreements, Master Service Agreements & Statement of Works, Distribution Agreements, Manufacturing & Supply Agreements and IP licensing and assignment contracts. Poonam also advises on foreign investments in India, outbound investments from India, incorporation of entities in India and general corporate matters. Poonam has represented clients at Bombay High Court, RERA, Consumer Court, DRT, D.R.A.T, SAT tribunals and courts in civil, criminal and recovery matters.

Amita Kamble

Amita has experience of about 9 years in litigation. Her sphere of work includes representing clients before the Hon’ble Courts, Tribunals, Forums, Government offices, drafting court proceedings, reviewing ongoing cases and advising the management accordingly, identifying legal risk and make strategies accordingly, vetting documents, collating information regarding subject matter, handling documentation work, drafting legal opinions, coordinating with clients. In this period, she has drafted documents like Sale Deed, Assignment Deed, Leave and license agreement, Consent terms, Agreements for Temporary and Permanent Alternate Accommodation, Will, Power of Attorney etc. She has also worked on matters related to redevelopment projects, recovery matters, criminal matters and actively assisted counsels in the same.

Court Appearance:
1. DRT Courts.
2. NCLT Court, Bombay
3. Various Metropolitan Magistrate Courts
4. Consumer courts.
5. Tribunals .
6. Charity Commissioner.
7. City Civil Court, Bombay and Dindoshi

Legal Experience:
Drafting various court proceedings • Review ongoing cases and advise management accordingly • Identification of legal risks and take appropriate courses of action for the same. • Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management. • Contract Management and documentation and drafting legal opinions • Preparing various pleadings.

Rahul Nikumbe

Courts Appearances:
1. Various Metropolitan Magistrate Courts
2. City Civil Court, Bombay and Dindoshi
3. Various Consumer Courts
4. DRT Courts.
5. Insurance Ombudsman
6. Mantryalaya matters.

Legal Experiences:
Drafting various court proceedings • Review ongoing cases and advise management accordingly • Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management. •Contract Management and documentation and drafting legal opinions • Preparing various pleadings . Identification of legal risks and take appropriate courses of action for the same. • Drafting Title Search Report . Assist the legal team in implementing Legal Process Manual, in Finalisation/Revert on Legal Agreements/documents, Contract Management and documentation and drafting legal opinions. Assist the legal team in implementing Legal Process Manual, in Finalisation/Revert on Legal Agreements/documents Good Knowledge of laws & regulations governing the Contracts and the ability to draft, analyse, interpret and negotiate complex contract terms and conditions and integrate commercial/business needs with contractual obligations.

Associate Partner

Abhishek Wadatkar

The Junior Partner of our firm manages offices at Wardha and Nagpur .He is dual qualified , having bachelors in engineering and Law. He has demonstrated history towards business management, expansion and administrative management. Inclined towards criminal matters along with due-diligence of properties.He manages Nagpur and Wardha office .

Expert Counsel

Pankaj Lohey

Office-“Legal Specialist with skill in Data Privacy, Corporate Governance, Contractual Agreements, Litigation & Commercial Contracts.”
Second Generation lawyer with 2 Decades of Experience in the field of law. Gold medallist in Masters of Law, Pankaj is an experienced Legal Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the IT, commercial real estate industry, SEZ and EPC. Highly Skilled at Data Privacy, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Contractual Agreements, Commercial Contracts, Litigation, Arbitration and POSH.
He dealt with Infrastructure and Real Estate Projects during his tenure at SAHARA PRIME CITY LIMITED AND ASPEN INFRASTRUCTURE LTD. He was Sr. Legal Counsel at QUCKHEAL Technologies ltd. Pankaj is now act as our Associate Partner, handling our Nagpur team of lawyers and office.

Sushant Raut

Well-known name in conducting civil trials with demonstrated results oriented approach .Sushant has more than 13 years of experience in RECOVERY Matters, Consumer matters and Civil Trials. He manages our firm’s WARDHA office along with our team of lawyers. Most trusted name in the field of civil law.

Solicitor's and Counsels

Ritesh Dawda

Adv. Ritesh Dawda, born on 8th October,1983; at Nagpur. He graduated in law from Nagpur University in the year 2008, he is proficient in English, Marathi, Gujrati and Hindi languages. He joined State Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa on 05 August 2008 and started his practice at District Court, Nagpur. Later on, he joined Ghare Associates at Nagpur, in the year 2009 since then he is practicing law at High Court of Bombay, Nagpur Bench, Nagpur; District and Sessions Court Nagpur along with other Tribunals and dealt with many high profile cases for Ghare Associates.

Since 2013, he is practicing independently at Nagpur and dealing with laws related to Constitution, Civil, Criminal, Matrimonial, Banking, Labour, Consumer, Taxation, Real Estate. Landlord -Tenant, Trust, Revenue, Co-Op Societies and Appellate side litigation.

He is on panel counsel appearing at Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench for the office of Official Liquidator, Bombay High Court. He provides legal consultation to companies and firms like Chartered Information Systems Pvt. Ltd, Acrotrend Solutions Pvt. Ltd, VND Software and Securities, Sublime Warehousing Pvt. Ltd, SKSM Foods Pvt Ltd, H.T. Associates, Debashu Services Pvt. Ltd, Kanchanganga Realtors, Zeromile Properties.

His legal acumen and conviction for his arguments assisted Court in laying down distinguished legal principles and hence he holds number of reported judgements to his credit.He looks after Nagpur office cases of the firm .

Mikhail Behl

Enrolled as an Advocate in the year 2007. Completed an LL.M with distinction from the University of Edinburgh in the year 2009 where he was a recipient of the university’s Indian Masters scholarship also recipient of RD Sethna scholarship. Joined the chambers of Mr. D. D. Madon Sr. Advocate in the year 2009. Practices in the city of Bombay exercising right of audience as Counsel before the Hon’ble High Court of Judicature, City Civil court, S.A.T, NCLT, SEBI and NSE. Empanelled as Arbitrator by several MNC’s and Government Agencies/companies.He is most preferred counsel by our firm.

Darryl Barretto

Darryl Barretto Solicitor and a Litigation Lawyer is having 8 years of post-qualification experience in transaction & regulatory advisory, corporate law, contract drafting and litigation in India and the UAE. He also advises on corporate transactions, general and commercial contracts, and issues related to start-ups, banking & finance sector, IT & ITES sector, the real estate sector, wills & probates, succession, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, and Intellectual Property. He likes undertaking legal research and is deeply interested in writing legal articles. Darryl also handles arbitration proceedings, intellectual property litigation matters, insolvency (IBC) matters, dispute resolution, and litigation matters at the High Court, NCLT, and various courts and tribunals in India. He previously worked for Wadia Gandhi and now extends his services to Kshitija Wadatkar and Associates.