Varun K Chopra
Advocate
- PHONE: +91 98 1185 1711
- E-MAIL: [email protected]
- St. Columba’s School, New Delhi
- B.A.LL.B (Hons), National Law Institute University, Bhopal, M.P
- Member of Bar Council of Delhi
- Member of Supreme Court Bar Association
- Member of Delhi High Court Bar Association
- Member of Competition Appellate Tribunal Bar Association
- Member of International Bar Association
- Member of International Council of Jurists
- Visiting faculty Bharti Vidyapeeth University
- Visiting faculty Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
- Visiting faculty FOSTIIMA Business School
Mr. Varun K Chopra is having more than 15 years of experience having worked with Khaitan & Co LLP, at Delhi, for four years and subsequently assisted Mr Vivek Tankha, Senior Advocate &former Additional Solicitor General of India, having primary areas of practice as arbitration and conciliation matters, and competition laws. In assisting Mr. Vivek Tankha, Senior Advocate, he was involved in direct & in-direct tax matters, competition assessment framework and compliance audits, opinions on agreements for assessment and adaptation of pro and anti-competitive issues in commercial deals, and risk analysis for transactions and regulatory overlap issues.
He has also been working on an array of pertinent matters specifically relating to direct and in-direct taxes in the Supreme Court of India and in various High Courts. He is recognised as one of the youngest 40 under 40 lawyers in India, and he has over 200 reported Supreme Court judgements in his name.
He is primarily involved in advisory on issues related to corporate, taxation and competition laws, assessment/ adaptation of tax structures, pro and anti-competitive issues in deals, licensing arrangements relating to technology transfer/ IPR-competition and risk analysis for transactions and regulatory overlap issues in India and overseas. He is also in involved in litigation at various quasi-judicial and judicial forums including the Supreme Court of India in sundry matters of Indian law. Furthermore, in 2017, during the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections, he had the privilege of being appointed as the sole Official Representative of Smt. Meira Kumar, presidential candidate, and Shri. Gopal Krishna Gandhi, vice-presidential candidate.
Further, he is also involved in issues pertaining to regulatory frame work at various forums and advised several industrial houses and multinational corporations on competition law, indirect taxation laws, and other corporate commercial and business laws.
Mr. Varun K Chopra have also had the opportunity to be a visiting faculty to esteemed Universities and member at various associations overseas and India.