Harman Sandhu

Harman Singh Sandhu is a Partner in the Firm’s Competition Law Practice, involved with competition law since its inception in India.
Harman has extensive experience in advising Indian and foreign companies in relation to a whole range of competition issues (both advisory and proceedings before the Competition Commission of India (CCI)), the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), the High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India (Supreme Court)). His experience spans a variety of sectors including telecoms, railways, steel, aviation, information technology, banking, natural resources (oil, coal, iron ore, etc.), petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals, paper, construction, cement, tyres, mineral processing equipment, digital markets (hospitality), and fibres.

His prominent clients include ACC, Ambuja Cements, Nutrien Inc, Linde AG., Alstom, Bayer/Monsanto, Baring Private Equity Asia, Trident Industries, Coal India, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, Asian Paints and Oravel Stays (OYO).

Harman has been involved in defending large multinational companies in high profile cartel enforcement cases and leniency matters, in the cement and tyre industries amongst others. Harman advised on the seminal CCI v. SAIL case, the first case under the Competition Act to be decided by the Supreme Court. He has successfully defended Apollo Tyres in the tyre cartelisation case, Tata Chemicals in the soda ash cartelization matter, and Visaka Industries in relation to alleged cartelization in the asbestos sheets sector. He has acted for ACC in the cement cartel case, and for ACC and Ambuja Cements in relation to alleged bid rigging conduct.

• Competition/antitrust

• Aviation and shipping
• Banking and financial services
• Materials
• Oil and gas
• Energy

• Bar Council of India

• LLB, M.D. University, 2003
• LLM, (Corporate and Commercial Law) King’s College London 2005