Partners
The people responsible for your matter
Managing Partner
Meghna Arvind
Managing Partner
Operating from Mumbai · Chennai
Meghna Arvind is an advocate on the roll of the Bar Council of India and the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa. As the Managing Partner of DAA Legal, she has over six years of experience in commercial and corporate law advisory and litigation, with a focus on restructuring and insolvency, in contentious and non-contentious matters.
Her practice covers the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), liquidation and resolution plan matters under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, company law, commercial disputes, securities law, GST and customs, and workplace compliance (POSH). She advises and represents public and private sector banks, resolution professionals, liquidators, companies, operational creditors, homebuyers, ARCs, NBFCs and promoters before the Hon'ble NCLT, NCLAT and High Court.
Her work includes M&A due diligence and restructuring advisory, the vetting and evaluation of resolution plans, and scheme matters of amalgamation from first motion to final order. She also handles commercial disputes, including pre-institution mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, and matters before MSME Facilitation Councils.
Meghna holds an LL.M. in Commercial and Corporate Law (Merit) from Queen Mary University of London, where her studies included cross-border insolvency and mergers and acquisitions. She is an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ACS) and works between Mumbai and Chennai. She has also served as Teaching Associate for the Company Law module at Queen Mary University of London, teaching the undergraduate law cohort under the mentorship of Dr Shalini S. Perera, Director of the School of Law, QMUL.
Partner
Ranit Kumar Bose
Partner
Operating from Kolkata
Ranit Kumar Bose is an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of West Bengal and a member of the Hon'ble High Court Bar Association, Calcutta. He practises corporate, civil and criminal litigation with a focus on insolvency and bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, writ petitions, GST and customs, and arbitration, and appears before the Hon'ble High Court at Calcutta, the NCLT and the District and Sessions Courts.
Before joining the firm he served as a Law Research Associate at the Hon'ble NCLT, Kolkata Bench, from 2022 to 2025, assisting Judicial and Technical Members with research, briefing notes and draft orders, and earlier practised as chamber junior to the late Mr. Manik Lal Dutta, Advocate.
He read law at the University of Calcutta, ranking first class first in both the B.A. LL.B. (Honours) and the LL.M., and is a Ph.D. scholar at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata. He is the author of Laws Relating to Marriage, Separation, Divorce and Maintenance (Notion Press, 2023), has contributed to a Scopus-indexed Elsevier volume on blockchain technology, and is regularly invited to judge national moot court competitions.
Partner
Vaibhav Yadav
Partner
Operating from Delhi · Gurgaon
Vaibhav Yadav is a Delhi-based advocate whose practice spans dispute resolution before India's apex forums and cross-border commercial advisory with a focus on India and UK matters.
His litigation practice is centred on the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, where he regularly drafts and strategizes Special Leave Petitions, appeals, writ petitions and interlocutory applications, including public interest matters of national significance. He also appears before specialised tribunals such as the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). Having served as an associate to a Senior Additional Advocate General, he has represented State Government interests in complex, multi-forum litigation, and he brings that experience to private clients in civil, regulatory and white-collar matters.
His corporate and commercial practice encompasses advising Indian and international clients on transactional matters, including shareholders' agreements, subscription agreements, joint ventures, SPV and cross-border acquisitions. He has worked on UK transactions for Middle East-based investors, including the acquisition of distressed hospitality assets through the English administration process, giving him practical insight into UK insolvency and restructuring. He supports clients with a London nexus in coordination with UK counsel.
Partner
Prateek Chawla
Partner
Operating from Delhi · Chandigarh · Mumbai
Prateek Chawla is a Partner at DAA Legal and an advocate on the roll of the Bar Council of India and the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, with practice spanning corporate, commercial and dispute resolution matters.
His corporate and transactional practice includes company incorporation and structuring, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions and transaction due diligence. He advises on Indian law in cross-border matters and has experience working on corporate and regulatory requirements involving jurisdictions including the United Arab Emirates and Mauritius.
Prateek also has substantial litigation experience, having independently practised civil and criminal law before the District and Sessions Courts in Haryana. He has handled trial matters involving evidence, cross-examination and oral arguments and is an empanelled advocate for National Insurance Company Limited, representing the insurer in motor accident claim matters.
Earlier in his career, he practised before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, working alongside the Additional Solicitor General of India and other senior advocates on litigation and regulatory matters. He has also undertaken transactional work in London with CND Parker, including M&A, commercial contracts, due diligence and corporate structuring.
Senior Advisors
An advisory panel with legal, financial and technical experience
Senior Advisor
Rohit Kapoor
Senior Advocate
Rohit Kapoor is a Senior Advocate with nearly 30 years of practice in company law, insolvency, arbitration, VAT and commercial disputes.
He was earlier Additional Advocate General for Jammu and Kashmir and a Special Prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation. He is a Fellow Member (Arbitrator) in the Judge category of the Indian Council of Arbitration, a member of the Expert Settlement Council of NTPC Ltd, and a registered independent director with the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs.
Senior Advisor
Balraj Joshi
Former CMD, NHPC Ltd and former Technical Member, Hon'ble NCLT
Balraj Joshi is a hydropower engineer and former Chairman and Managing Director of NHPC Ltd. He was involved in the formulation, design and execution of several major hydro projects in India and abroad, and in the formulation and administration of large-scale construction contracts.
He has represented India in international arbitration, including before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and the World Bank in the Indus Waters Treaty dispute, and served as a Technical Member of the Hon'ble NCLT for over three years, deciding matters under the IBC and on corporate governance.
He has handled arbitrations for NHPC, sits as an arbitrator in infrastructure disputes, and has served on Dispute Adjudication Boards for NHPC and THDC contracts. He is a Life Member of the Indian Council of Arbitration and of the Arbitration Centre of the Institution of Engineers, Kolkata.
Senior Advisor
D. Arvind
Former Member (Technical), Hon'ble National Company Law Tribunal
D. Arvind is a Chartered Accountant in both India and England and Wales, and a Company Secretary, with over 40 years of experience across industry, Big Four consulting, his own advisory practice and the Hon'ble NCLT. He is also a corporate governance professional certified by the MCA and the ICSI, a Registered Valuer, an Insolvency Professional, a Chartered Wealth Manager, a Certified Financial Planner, an arbitrator and a mediator. At DAA Legal, he advises on insolvency, company law, indirect tax and valuation matters.
From July 2023 to January 2025, he served as Member (Technical) of the Hon'ble National Company Law Tribunal, Kolkata Bench, where he heard insolvency, merger, demerger and corporate governance matters under the IBC and the Companies Act, 2013, and authored and pronounced more than 1,300 orders and judgments.
Earlier in his career he was Head of Legal & Tax at Castrol India Limited, responsible for tax strategy, commercial legal affairs and contract structuring, and went on to senior Big Four roles as Partner-in-Charge, Indirect Tax (South India) at KPMG, Executive Director at Deloitte in Mumbai, and Senior Advisor at PwC India, covering indirect tax, customs, EXIM regulation and cross-border M&A tax due diligence.
In 2010 he founded D. Arvind & Associates LLP (DAA Consulting), which has grown into a multidisciplinary firm of more than 120 professionals with offices in six Indian cities. He has represented industry bodies and trade associations before the Ministry of Finance, the GST Council and the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, has written more than 50 articles on company law, indirect tax and the IBC for Taxmann, Centax, The Economic Times and Taxsutra, and speaks regularly at ICAI and ICSI programmes.
Senior Advisor
Satish S.
Chartered Accountant and former PwC Partner
Satish S. has over 35 years of experience in indirect taxation and technology across industry and consulting. He was a Senior Partner at PwC and Global Head of Tax for the L&T Group.
He advises on the tax implications of business decisions such as amalgamations, long-term contract structuring and ERP implementation, and speaks regularly at industry and trade body conferences. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.
Senior Advisor
Akshay Arvind
Chartered Accountant, Director, DAA Consulting Pvt Ltd
Akshay Arvind is a fellow member of ICAI and an associate member of ICSI with over 15 years of experience in Management Consulting and Indirect Taxation. He started his career at the inception of DAA and heads the Mumbai and Bengaluru offices.
He has carried out over 50 tax optimisation studies for Fortune 500 and Indian multinational clients, advising on the structuring of business transactions. He appears before adjudicating and appellate authorities and tribunals.
He specialises in providing life cycle support to international companies entering the Indian market, and leads the technology initiatives at DAA Consulting. He has spoken at Indian and international industry and trade conferences.
Senior Advisor
MS Vasan
Senior Advocate, Founder Partner of MSV Legal
MS Vasan is a Senior Advocate and the founder partner of MSV Legal, enrolled with the Bar Council at the Delhi High Court. He has more than thirty five years in international taxation, transfer pricing and tax litigation, in senior taxation roles with multinational companies and in practice as an advocate.
He was most recently Senior Vice President, Global Taxation at Hinduja Global Solutions, responsible for corporate restructuring and tax planning across the group's Indian and international operations, and held earlier tax roles at DuPont, General Motors, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Sutherland Global and Enercon GmbH. He was a consultant with Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan before founding MSV Legal in 2016.
His practice covers cross-border transactions, treaty positions, permanent establishment and withholding tax, transfer pricing policy, documentation and benchmarking, and representation before the Dispute Resolution Panel, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and the Hon'ble High Courts. He holds a doctorate in transfer pricing from Madurai Kamaraj University, and has written Transfer Pricing Audit Practices in India for LexisNexis, the Direct Taxes Ready Reckoner and the Master Guide to Income Tax. He was consulting editor of the International Taxation Journal of Taxmann and sits on the finance and taxation panels of SIAM, ASSOCHAM and NASSCOM.
