Founder & Managing Partner | AY Associates | India
Abhishek Yadav is one of India’s foremost commercial litigators, recognised for an uncompromising standard of courtroom advocacy and a rare ability to deploy legal strategy in the service of decisive business outcomes. He is the Founder of AY Associates — a disputes-driven advisory firm headquartered in New Delhi — and appears regularly before the Supreme Court of India, the High Courts of Delhi and Madras, and international arbitral forums. A graduate of Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, he trained as a Law Clerk at
the Delhi High Court, an experience that continues to shape his precision-first approach to complex litigation. On the transactional front, Abhishek has led a USD 10 million cross-border investment mandate involving Chinese and Japanese principals, structuring and executing a joint venture in the electronic components sector — bringing together foreign capital, regulatory clearances, and Indian corporate law into a seamless market-entry framework. He further advised on a ₹200 crore domestic investment transaction, stewarding the deal from term sheet through execution of the Shareholders’ Agreement and Share Subscription Agreement. His landmark litigation victories include securing recovery of over ₹70 crore for 300+ contractual professors before the Supreme Court, leading pan-India strategy across 200+ concurrent matters for a NASDAQ-listed entity, acting as lead counsel for 500+ investors in an active CBI and Enforcement Directorate investigation, and conducting a ₹50 crore-plus arbitration before the Delhi International Arbitration Centre — while simultaneously representing a Mexico-based corporation in multi-jurisdictional proceedings across Indian High Courts.
