IPBA 2021

Anuj Berry

Partner
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
New Delhi

Anuj Berry is a Partner with the Firm’s Litigation, Dispute Resolution and White Collar Defence Group. Anuj specialises in all issues of national and international white-collar crime, fraud, corruption and regulatory enforcement investigations. He specialises in internal investigations as also investigations by federal anticorruption
and anti-money laundering authorities.

Anuj joined the erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas in 2006. He worked with the Firm till 2009 when he took a sabbatical to pursue the Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL) programme at the University of Oxford and then rejoined the Firm in 2010 and has since then focussed on expanding the white collar practice at the Firm.

Anuj has been ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ for White Collar Crime by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide 2018-21 and has been recognised by the Chambers Asia Pacific Rankings 2020 and 2021. Global Investigations Review (GIR) has recognised Anuj as one of the ‘40 under 40’ names to be reckoned with globally, and is the only Indian practitioner to be included in the GIR list. Most recently, he has been recognised by BW Businessworld as one the ’Young Legal Eagles 40 under 40’ of the Indian Legal Ecosystem 2020.

He has been at the forefront of representing multi-national corporations in large and politically sensitive anticorruption and anti-money laundering investigations having a cross border element. His expertise in such matters extends to advising the client and senior management in all aspects of such cross border investigations starting from the internal fact finding, strategy to engage with the investigation agency, developing a defence strategy as also representation before the courts should the  investigation result in a prosecution. Given the increase in cross border regulatory investigations, Anuj also works closely to guide clients in cooperation approaches under the mutual legal assistance treaty regimes as also extradition issues.

Anuj also conducts and advises corporations, boards of directors, audit committees on internal investigations regarding a wide range of alleged misconduct, including corruption, financial irregularities, financial statement fraud. Some of the complex internal investigations he has led have had an interface with parallel regulatory investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Indian Securities and Exchange Board of India, which were successfully closed basis the findings of the internal investigation.

As part of his work, Anuj also helps navigate intense government and media scrutiny so that clients can maintain their business operations. He also advises on anti-bribery compliance and diligence aspects in case of investments in Indian companies.