Ajay is a financial disputes partner, who advises clients in the financial services, private capital investors, digital assets and real estate sectors.
Ajay has represented his clients on some of the most significant and high profile matters they have faced across a range of different contentious issues and jurisdictions.
He understands how financial firms work first hand, having spent around 2.5 years of his career working in-house, predominantly at Goldman Sachs' litigation and enforcement team, as well as other secondments to Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, so he brings a commercial understanding and approach to his legal advice.
Ajay has consistently been ranked in the leading legal directories, where he is recognised as "a fantastic partner. Great strategic insight and a joy to work with"; as "an exceptional disputes lawyer and client relationship partner. He is technically superb, tactically astute (with an eye on the bigger picture), calm and considered, a great clear communicator and very hard-working and responsive"; and as "a considered but decisive team leader and fantastic strategist". He has also been described as being "at the forefront of the cryptocurrency space, advising digital assets platforms", where his noted as a key lawyer for Fintech: corporate and commercial. Ajay has been an integral member of matter teams which have won multiple awards including The Lawyer Litigation Team of the Year, Legal Business Dispute Resolution Team of the Year and Financial News Financial Litigation Firm of the Year.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Goldman Sachs on the successful defence of US$1.2bn claims brought by the Libyan Investment Authority to recover substantial sums in respect of derivatives trades
- ICBC Standard Bank Plc in relation to the UK's first-ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement and the first case brought for the offence of failure to prevent bribery by an associated person (section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010), as well as the disposal of the US criminal and civil investigations
- A leading cryptocurrency exchange in relation to a successful strike out / summary judgment of a claim litigating novel issues around the duties the industry owes to third parties
Background
Ajay has a first class degree in Philosophy & Literature from the University of Warwick and a Graduate Diploma in Law and a Legal Practice Course from BPP. He qualified in September 2010.
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