Our Team
PARTNERS
Madhav Bhatia is the Co-founder, and Partner at Vertari Legal. He specialises in high-stakes litigation across the constitutional and commercial spectrum.
He has been engaged in some of the most significant constitutional controversies in recent times, including matters regarding Maratha reservations and the excommunication practices of the Dawoodi Bohra community. He has also been involved in proceedings connected to at least eleven Constitution Bench matters before the Supreme Court of India.
Beyond his constitutional work, Madhav represents and advises clients on complex mining disputes, commercial arbitrations, and high-value civil suits. His expertise also extends to white-collar and economic offences, including matters under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and cases involving benami properties, alongside extensive involvement in arguments relating to complex indirect tax disputes.
Madhav applies a research-driven framework to complex disputes, ensuring that litigation strategies are grounded in constitutional jurisprudence while remaining aligned with prevailing commercial exigencies.
Madhav Bhatia
Shreshth Arya
Shreshth Arya is the Co-Founder, and Partner at Vertari Legal. He is a litigation and disputes lawyer with over eight years of experience across trial courts, specialised tribunals, and appellate forums, including the Delhi, Bombay, and Bangalore High Courts, the GST Appellate Tribunal, and the Supreme Court of India.
His practice focuses on GST and Income Tax litigation, white-collar crime, criminal litigation, tender-related disputes, regulatory proceedings, and matters under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), in addition to providing strategic counsel in criminal litigation and tender-related disputes for individuals and businesses.
Shreshth advises and represents leading companies in multi-jurisdictional disputes across India. His expertise extends to legal strategy, risk mitigation, and corporate structuring, and has managed complex matters from the pre-litigation stage through trial and appellate proceedings, culminating before the Supreme Court.
Shreshth focuses on mitigating exposure and risk through meticulous procedural planning and the strategic selection of forums at the advisory stage, optimising on litigation timelines to secure decisive and timely relief.
Shreyuss Shankar Joshi
Shreyuss Shankar Joshi is a Partner at Vertari Legal. He specialises in corporate, commercial, regulatory, and tax-related disputes and represents a diverse portfolio of clients across trial and appellate forums in complex contentious matters.
His practice spans commercial litigation, insolvency and banking matters, arbitration, trademark litigation, and white-collar crime. He is highly experienced in real-estate matters where he handles land disputes for co-operative group housing societies and high-value property disputes.
Shreyuss is extensively engaged in matters involving taxation, money laundering, and cyber-fraud, including proceedings relating to the tracing and recovery of misappropriated funds. Additionally, he represents and advises financial institutions, public sector undertakings, and corporate clients with high-impact litigation strategies and tactical procedural planning.
Shreyuss ensures the streamlined resolution of complex commercial matters through a technical approach to the conduct of proceedings with strategic application of his legal expertise to mitigate institutional risk and achieve streamlined resolution of complex commercial matters across judicial forums.
Vivek Sura
Vivek Sura is a Partner at Vertari Legal. He is a litigation and disputes lawyer, who specialises in complex civil and commercial disputes, GST, arbitration, constitutional matters, and regulatory proceedings, with an active presence across the Supreme Court of India, High Courts, the National Green Tribunal, and commercial courts, where he represents a diverse clientele of public and private sector entities in high-stakes matters across infrastructure, energy, environmental regulation, government contracts, and indirect tax disputes.
His practice has a strong focus on civil and commercial recovery litigation where he leverages his expertise in civil procedure and utilises strategic deployment of interlocutory mechanisms to ensure streamlined judicial inquiry. His proficiency was recently demonstrated in a suit involving the Indian employees against the Italian Embassy, where Vivek successfully assisted in setting aside a threshold rejection under Order VII Rule 11 CPC, reaffirming that disputed issues must be adjudicated through trial.
Vivek applies a methodical and analytical framework to the conduct of litigation. He prioritises the rigorous application of legal and evidentiary principles to secure definitive resolutions while safeguarding client interests.