Full Name
Susmit Pushkar
Job Title
Senior Partner
Company
VSK Law
Speaker Bio
Susmit is a Senior Partner at VSK Law (VSKL) and is based in New Delhi. His law practice is focused on corporate & commercial dispute resolution, white collar crimes defence and competition/ anti-trust. He represents clients before the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court, tribunals, and trial courts. Over 22 years, he has advised and represented corporates and high net worth individuals (HNIs) on enforcement investigations and prosecutions, complex cases involving regulatory bodies, large
monetary claims in arbitration and other business concerns. Clients seek his counsel for efficiently resolving some of their most critical legal challenges. He has acted for leading financial institutions, MNCs, PSUs in sectors including information technology, defense, oil & gas, infrastructure, real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, alcobev, etc. on a broad range of legal issues. Some of the Clients he has acted for include Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Cambridge University Press, GAIL, HDFC, ICICI, L&T,
Molson Coors, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), ONGC Videsh, SAP, Severn Trent Water Purification, Signify, Toyo Engineering, Uber, Vedanta.
Susmit has handled litigations concerning regulatory aspects relating to tech start-ups, data privacy, cryptocurrency, product liability, FDI & foreign exchange, insurance, environment, etc. He represents clients in arbitrations, shareholders’, joint venture and other commercial disputes before domestic and international arbitral tribunals. He is a member of the Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA). Susmit regularly advises on cross-border issues including foreign sanctions, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.
Susmit advises corporates and HNIs on enforcement investigations by agencies, such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), Enforcement Directorate (ED), vigilance bureau, financial intelligence unit (FIU), economic offences wing (EOW) and the Competition Commission of India (CCI), alleging bribery, money laundering, corporate fraud, FEMA breach, other white-collar offences and anti-competitive business practices (e.g., cartel, abuse of dominance). He advises companies on compliance, internal investigations, proceedings alleging bribery of foreign officials under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act.
He has defended clients against enforcement actions, including attachment/ freezing of assets/ bank accounts, look out circulars, requests under bilateral mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), criminal prosecution and trial. He has defended companies in proceedings instituted by the African Development Bank, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, Ordnance Factory Board, etc. alleging wrongdoing in public procurements. He has advised clients on declaration of fraud proceedings by
banks under Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Master Circulars.
Susmit has been consistently recognized by Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific), Legal 500 and GCR 100 and has been a ranked lawyer. Chambers 2018 notes Susmit as being “increasingly recognised in the market for ‘some stellar work’ in the dispute resolution and white-collar crime spaces”. He has formerly been a Vice-Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Committee on Anti-Corruption and the Rule of Law. He devotes time for pro bono work.
monetary claims in arbitration and other business concerns. Clients seek his counsel for efficiently resolving some of their most critical legal challenges. He has acted for leading financial institutions, MNCs, PSUs in sectors including information technology, defense, oil & gas, infrastructure, real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, alcobev, etc. on a broad range of legal issues. Some of the Clients he has acted for include Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Cambridge University Press, GAIL, HDFC, ICICI, L&T,
Molson Coors, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), ONGC Videsh, SAP, Severn Trent Water Purification, Signify, Toyo Engineering, Uber, Vedanta.
Susmit has handled litigations concerning regulatory aspects relating to tech start-ups, data privacy, cryptocurrency, product liability, FDI & foreign exchange, insurance, environment, etc. He represents clients in arbitrations, shareholders’, joint venture and other commercial disputes before domestic and international arbitral tribunals. He is a member of the Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA). Susmit regularly advises on cross-border issues including foreign sanctions, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.
Susmit advises corporates and HNIs on enforcement investigations by agencies, such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), Enforcement Directorate (ED), vigilance bureau, financial intelligence unit (FIU), economic offences wing (EOW) and the Competition Commission of India (CCI), alleging bribery, money laundering, corporate fraud, FEMA breach, other white-collar offences and anti-competitive business practices (e.g., cartel, abuse of dominance). He advises companies on compliance, internal investigations, proceedings alleging bribery of foreign officials under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act.
He has defended clients against enforcement actions, including attachment/ freezing of assets/ bank accounts, look out circulars, requests under bilateral mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), criminal prosecution and trial. He has defended companies in proceedings instituted by the African Development Bank, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, Ordnance Factory Board, etc. alleging wrongdoing in public procurements. He has advised clients on declaration of fraud proceedings by
banks under Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Master Circulars.
Susmit has been consistently recognized by Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific), Legal 500 and GCR 100 and has been a ranked lawyer. Chambers 2018 notes Susmit as being “increasingly recognised in the market for ‘some stellar work’ in the dispute resolution and white-collar crime spaces”. He has formerly been a Vice-Chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Committee on Anti-Corruption and the Rule of Law. He devotes time for pro bono work.
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